Flatel Cassiopée Hotel

The hotel is located in Saint Gilles, one of the 19 municipalities included in the Brussels Capital Region. The building deeply contrasts its surrounding fabric, composed mainly by houses dating from the end of the 19th century. The concrete structure surrounds large aluminium windows. (Special thanks to ar[chi]pentage)

Credit communal (now BNP Paribas offices)

Marcel Lambrichs plays an important role in the post-war modernism period of Brussels and of Leopoldville (Congo). In Brussels he designed, together with Ricquier, Groupe Alpha, H. Van Kuyck and R. Schuiten, the Brussels administrative complex and the famous Midi Tower with René Aerts, Paul Ramon, Y. Blomme, A. Bressers et Jean Van Doosselaere. The two buildings of the actual BNP Paribas illustrate a late period of Lambrichs architecture, in which he experiments with the aesthetic of prefabricated concrete façades. (Special thanks to ar[chi]pentage)

Westrand Cultural Center

Alphonse Hoppenbrouwers was a postmodern architect in the eighties and nineties in Belgium. Influenced by the architects De Sijn and Le Corbusier, he paid strong attention to the real needs of people, building public buildings such as schools, cultural centers, churches but also private houses. The Westrand cultural center was designed in an unusual way: walking inside the building is expected to always be a new journey made possible by the various connections and relaxing areas. These different interior paths offer possibilities for simultaneous activities inside the center. (Special thanks to ar[chi]pentage)