Last year, we chose to make our planet greener for Christmas. We invested in planting 1,000 trees as part of a reforestation project in Armenia. Meanwhile, one year later, the trees are being carefully monitored as they grow. Here, you can follow…
Located in the heart of the municipality of Montignies-Sur-Sambre, the Reine Fabiola hospital site covers about 3 hectares. Established in 1953 to care for injured workers, the area is currently part of the GHdC - Grand Hôpital de Charleroi and is…
Located in the heart of the municipality of Gilly, the Saint-Joseph site covers about 5 hectares. It was established in 1869 as a dispensary to help injured miners. Later, it became the first location of Gilly's hospital network. The redevelopment…
Dutch version There is free admission between 11 and 16h. You can meet the B-family, discover our projects with a word of explanation, follow a tour around our workplaces or just stroll around in our cosy, sunlit courtyard garden. In short: no…
With our new restoration division B-juxta, we not only welcomed 30 wonderful people into the family, we are now based in Ghent as well. At the same time, we are busy building our B-cinema, a new office space on the scale of more than 100…
Our teams are in full preparation to boost their fitness to the maximum by the start of the event. In addition, our colleagues are organising various activities to raise money. But we are going for more. That is why we are calling on you to support…
The chosen parties are B-city architecten, FELT, LiPS Life People Space, Maatschap Midi, Plusoffice, Planrr, Studio Thomas Willemse and Tussengoed.
Photo: the Arsenaal site in Ghent. For the development of this site, B-city has taken on the…
The OCMW of Ixelles wants to reorganise the large building block it owns, which also houses its headquarters. Located on a sloping terrain with a very pronounced topography, the site forms the junction of several neighbourhoods, each with its own…
B-juxta evolved from the Ghent-based JUXTA, which has its roots in Architectenbureau Van Acker – later Avapartners. Since its establishment in 1967, the office grew into an important player in Flanders in the field of restoration, renovation and…
The assignment includes the execution of short-term urban planning studies, the creation of feasibility studies, (support in) the execution of scenario research or strategic design research into the carrying capacity of a site and advising…
For this project, we chose to work with Go Forest — a young, Belgian company with a warm heart for our planet that has chosen to help save nature by planting trees. They operate in different parts of the world, always in collaboration with local…
The former slaughterhouse (locally known as ‘Schluechthaus’) is located in Luxembourg City’s Hollerich district. The City of Luxembourg launched the European architectural competition last August. The 2.5 hectare site has a strategic location near…
'En de rest is parking' is the first edition of Zuidzee, a new book series of thought-provoking essays and innovative research on city, landscape and society. This edition brings together the columns our associate Maarten Van Acker wrote for Gazet…
B-architecten was born exactly 25 years ago. With the renovation of the Beursschouwburg as their very first project, the design office immediately put itself permanently on the architectural map of Belgium. Many projects followed, including Muntpunt…
Jan Denoo of Endeavour and Stadsform paid us a visit and gave a lecture during our monthly Bcafé. As an urbanist he researches, designs and guides urban transitions at Endeavour and sets up critical urban dialogues as curator of Stadsform. In…
Another season full of creativity, growth, challenging projects and enriching moments has passed. And it has been one of highlights: we published a new book, opened a second office in the heart of Brussels and welcomed no less than 24 new…
The striking dome complex adjoins the historic centre of the North Brabant city and covers an area of more than three hectares. It includes various monumental buildings, with the impressive domed prison as the eye-catcher. It was built between 1882…
In the first zone (A), people live at a green square that invites informal encounters and children to play. Ground-connected houses are located around the square, with at the back private yards that make a natural transition to the surrounding villa…
B is B is – a compact combination of a capital B and a present tense verb that resembles a conclusion, appears as vivid as it is simple. And it makes sense. For what began modestly yet ambitiously as B-architecten at the end of the last century, is…
Sven and the other committee members Oana Bogdan, Benoît Moritz, Jens Aerts, Anne Ledroit, Hélène Rillaerts, Luc Eeckhout, Thierry Baneton, Pierre-Alain Franck, Kristiaan Borret, Vanessa Mosquera and Katelijne Franssens worked on an ambitious and…
Find out more about our projects and the themes we set great store by as a design studio: sustainability and circular building, cohousing projects, B-bis’ smaller-scale architecture and more. Meet the B-family, discover our best scale models with a…
De Standaard published an interview with Patrick Janssens, where he speaks about his current work at B-city. “Na mijn vertrek bij Genk kwam ik snel tot de conclusie dat enkel stadsontwikkeling me echt passioneerde. Daarvoor wilde ik me engageren. Ik…
Instead of being designed as its own urban entity, Platform Noord would function as a link between three different worlds, both physically – in terms of its position – as well as programmatically and conceptually. These worlds included; the railway…
From July 10 onward, we will be celebrating our summer break. We wish you a sunlit vacation full of relaxing activities and cold refreshments. Back at your service from Tuesday August 3.
See you after! Greetings from
Adam,…
"Brussels Staatssecretaris voor Stedenbouw Pascal Smet kondigde [...] aan dat hij aan een grondige hervorming van de stedenbouwkundige regelgeving werkt onder de naam “Good Living”. Het moet een ambitieus kader worden om alle Brusselse gebouwen,…
Smets' quest for the ‘Fundamenten van het Stadsontwerp’, a very appropriate title, is not a long-winded textbook, but a fascinating and accessible essay. Twenty short chapters analyse central concepts from the practice of urbanization and urban…
With B-city, we are adding a third platform to our existing divisions B-architecten and B-bis. Its aim is to guide complex urban projects and supervise their creation. Projects with a scale that have the ambition to create a new city district are at…
De beroemde projectontwikkelaar Gilbert van Schoonbeke was een man met visionaire ideeën en veranderde het grondplan van Antwerpen duchtig. In 2019 zou hij 500 kaarsjes mogen uitblazen, wat dit jaar tot een memorabel jaar maakt. Ook vandaag leven er…
