Garde-robe Nationale is a womenswear boutique in the Nationalestraat (hence the name), located in the heart of the fashion neighbourhood in Antwerp. It can be found between the flagship stores of Dries Van Noten, Ann De Meulemeester and others. The shop has been a well established shop stop for 10 years, but the interior got [...]
This concept was designed for a design competition organized by the province of West Flanders.The assignment was to fill up a large empty space (+ – 900m2), which is in the middle of several offices, with furniture where the users could gather. These offices are let to young starting companies. Given these existing offices are [...]
5AM is founded by 2 young Belgian designers OLIVIER CALUWIER & MATHIEU BELLENS, who are active in interior & furniture design. In every project they are searching for the perfect combination of function and design with creative touch. 5AM recently have created a creative booth at a fair nearby Kortrijk. They designed a little cocoon, [...]
Shared by photographer Veronica Morales, the Atomium is located in Brussels, Belgium, it was designed by André Waterkeyn for Expo ’58. The Atomium stands 102 metres tall and has 9 steel spheres connected by tubes, each of them are easily reached by escalators. You can find more works of Veronica Morales Angulo here. + All [...]
Belgian designer Peter Donders has recently created The D-Desk. It consists of of cast aluminum feet and solid wood or MDF center piece. Cast feet is possible in different colors, and the center piece is possible in different woods and painted MDF. + Dimensions: L 2000 mm x D 874 mm x H 776 mm [...]
Interior architect Mauro Brigham has completed reconversion of a water tower into a single family house in Belgium. The history In a small terrain of 16m width by 20m long in the middle of a flat Belgian landscape, raises a 30m high water tower built between 1938 and 1941 for and by the village of [...]
‘Water in Historic City Centres’ has Mechelen as its proving ground The first project for the ‘Water in Historic City Centres’ (WIHCC) project has been completed in Mechelen, Belgium. The Melaan, a tributary of the Dijle river, has been excavated and newly landscaped in the old city centre of Mechelen. WIHCC is a European collaborative [...]
metamorphOse, a group of 5 young Belgian architects in Brussels, have proposed «Synapse» as their competition entry for Brussels Courthouse Contest: imagine the future. The «Synapse» has been chosen as one of 30 finalist proposals out of 200. The exhibition of this contest takes place in BOZAR, Brussels, from the 31st of March to the [...]
Hong Kong designer Kitmen Keung has created a transformable foam block titled Dual Cut, with only two cuts for Belgium design brand Sixinch. Splitting a raw rectangular foam block with only two L-shaped cut lines, Dual Cut is a transformable furniture piece that employs the simplest production processes true to the materials in use with [...]
TOWER 2.0 designed by PLANCONTROL wins the first prize at the “A_TA 2010 Architecture Annual” with the contest solution for Antwerp cathedral’s second tower. Tower 2.0 is therefore very much present on its user’s minds, yet it remaining absent for those who chose not to look at it. Daniel Tellman, PLANCONTROL + Project description by [...]
Shelly is the latest creation designed by Belgian designer Peter Donders, it is an aluminum chair, cast in 1 piece in a 3D printed sand mould. The chair consists of only 1 single surface (shell) with a minimum thickness of 8mm. + Weight: +/- 12 kg + Dimensions: H : 962 mm x W: 579mm [...]
Paris based design studio NOCC is showing Antimatter at the Interior Design Biennale 2010 in the Underground, 15-24 October in Kortrijk, Belgium. Antimatter is a seating system that consists of two stools, one of which also serves as storage. One stool takes its form from the materialization of the negative space beneath the other. Materializing this empty [...]
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PALAZZO DEL LAVORO (Palace of Labour) \ Alberto Apostoli
Italian Architect Alberto Apostoli signs the renovation of a building in which colors and details of the facade redefine the volume through a geometrical but refined language. The project starts from a building renovation from the 60’s that was partially wrecked by the terrible earthquake that seriously damaged the old town of L’Aquila (the heart [...]
Private Colege in Oporto \ OVAL – Avelino Oliveira
Photographer João Morgado shared with us his recently photography of the Private Colege in Oporto designed by OVAL – Avelino Oliveira. A group of buildings for the new facilities of the College Cebes (secondary school), which is situated in Foz do Douro, in the municipality of Porto. The project proposes a building that is based [...]
Sejong Art Center Winning Proposal / designcamp moonpark dmp
Sejong Art Center (hereafter SAC) is designed for various performing arts such as musical, ballet, dancing and etc. There are two theaters, a main theater with more than 800 seats and a medium sized theater with 300 seats, and a film theater with 250 seats and art gallery in SAC. It is located in the [...]
