OFFICE KGDVS designs new headquarters for Belgian broadcaster VRT

2021-06-24T15:06:00-04:00

Belgian architecture studio OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen (KGDVS), in collaboration with Jaspers-Eyers Architects, has won a competition to design a new headquarters for Flemish Radio and Television (VRT) in the future Media Park in Brussels. The project is the result of a year-long competition, developed by a collective of firms dubbed VRT Morgen, which also includes: Bureau Bas Smets, Tractebel, CES, Ideal Acoustics, Willemen Construct, Jan De Nul Group, and EEG.

The competition, launched in February 2020, was part of the transformation of the Reyers district and the realization of mediapark.brussels. Seven construction teams submitted proposals. The VRT Morgen team was awarded the contract with a maximum construction cost of approximately $159 million.

The new VRT headquarters will span 65,000 square meters, with 40,000 square meters of that above ground. It is set to open in the summer of 2026. The new media house focuses on flexibility and cooperation, with spaces fo...

The project of 'Architecture collectibles': Solo Houses

2017-08-28T18:21:00-04:00

The overall project is a bit like Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture programme of architect-designed holiday homes, except that Solo’s are all in the same 100-hectare location. It also resembles the Serpentine Galleries’ annual architecture pavilion, with the difference that these houses are permanent and habitable.

Just over the border from Catalonia, amid the mountainous landscape of eastern Spain, a new one-of-a-kind development is underway. Including a total of 15 houses and a hotel, each designed by a different architect, Solo Houses was initiated by a Paris-based couple, Christian Bourdais and Eva Albarran. The 'collection' strives to capture the current state of architecture and is united by a remarkable material and light sensibility.

The ‘right-angled mushroom’ Solo House designed by Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen. Photograph: Pezo Von Ellrichshausen; Image via theguardian.com

So far, two houses are completed—a concrete and square tower by Chile-based Pezo von Ellrichshausen and a circular house designed by the Brussels practice Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen.

Solo Houses’ choices are those of enthusiasts who know their field and know what they like. Bourdais says he wasn’t looking “for the fashionable architects that everyone knows”, but people of his own fortysom...

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OFFICE KGDVS designs new headquarters for Belgian broadcaster VRT

The project of 'Architecture collectibles': Solo Houses