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BLAF architecten’s JTB house employs a novel method of building insulation
May 29, 2023by Almas Sadique May 29, 2023
The residential structure in Belgium is a single family home that is built along the undulating landscape in its vicinity.
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What Design Can Do announces winners for the Make it Circular Challenge
May 09, 2023by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar May 09, 2023
In association with IKEA Foundation and Impact Hub Amsterdam, What Design Can Do selects 13 examples of innovative excellence in sustainable design, promoting a circular economy.
Architecture, nature and climate define the Sony World Photography Awards 2023
May 01, 2023by Sunena V Maju May 01, 2023
Sony World Photography Awards announced the winners of its 2023 edition, including categories of Architecture, Environment, Landscape and Wildlife & Nature.
Beli House in Kalmthout is a mirror-clad disappearing act
Mar 25, 2023by Pooja Suresh Hollannavar Mar 25, 2023
Antwerp-based Studio Okami creates a modern home wrapped in reflective aluminium, glass, and concrete.
EUROPARC Design Collective reimagines the European Parliament building in Brussels
Nov 29, 2022by Sunena V Maju Nov 29, 2022
EUROPARC Design Collective’s winning proposal for SPAAK building’s renewal hopes to be an architectural manifestation of the political, social, and cultural identity of Europe.
VoyagerCo. charts a modular future for electric mobility with the SOLID CRS-01
Nov 28, 2022by Jerry Elengical Nov 28, 2022
Centred on modularity and material efficiency, the electric vehicle concept, designed for SOLID EV, exhibits a brutalist aesthetic in its reinterpretation of a café racer.
Bath & Barley indulges in the beer-brewing tradition of Belgium
Nov 11, 2022by Sunena V Maju Nov 11, 2022
WeWantMore design studio brings Czech Republic's beer spa concept to Brussels, unifying it with Belgium’s famous beer-brewing tradition for the design of Bath & Barley.
Job Smeets’ ‘Embrace’ dips the rear façade of KunstKerk in ironies and iconography
Sep 12, 2022by Zohra Khan Sep 12, 2022
The Dutch artist has transformed the rear side of a disused 19th century Dordrecht church into a bronze and glass sculpture that piques you to see more the longer you look.
Studio Farris Architects reinterprets a traditional waterfront house in Belgium
Jul 30, 2022by Nadezna Siganporia Jul 30, 2022
Turning the traditional townhouse layout on its head, the Antwerp-based firm designed the Canal House around hidden courtyards while emphasising the views of the maritime canal.
Enter Projects Asia catalyses a factory in Belgium with serpentine rattan assembly
Jul 09, 2022by Anmol Ahuja Jul 09, 2022
With a brief to introduce wellness and calm into an industrial space, the practice sought to undertake a grassroots sustainability approach with their sculptural intervention.
Design fair Collectible 2022 rekindles the direct relationship with material
May 26, 2022by Salvatore Peluso May 26, 2022
STIR asks some of the protagonists of the collectors' design fair how this universe has changed in the last two pandemic years.
Gijs Van Vaerenbergh stacks hundreds of corten steel tubes for Waterline Monument
May 26, 2022by Jincy Iype May 26, 2022
Solid yet porous, the Waterline Monument in Utrecht is made of open, weathered steel tubes, its lock-like form referencing the Dutch site and its architectural history.
Nel Verbeke's 'The Architecture of Time' reflects on humans as finite beings
Apr 26, 2022by Dilpreet Bhullar Apr 26, 2022
The Belgian conceptual designer Nel Verbeke with her exhibition The Architecture of Time displays the sculpture to keep the audience moored with their surroundings.
The 38th edition of Art Brussels shifts the artistic and cultural scene in Europe
Apr 14, 2022by STIRworld Apr 14, 2022
Art Brussels, the Belgian capital’s annual art fair, brings together 157 galleries from 26 countries, spanning over 1000 artists with artistic projects and initiatives.
Francesca Torzo interprets the permanency of a culture in the Z33 House
Mar 19, 2022by Zohra Khan Mar 19, 2022
The Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture in Hasselt, Belgium, features a spatial labyrinth narrating the memory of its place.
'Agrotopia' greenhouse is Europe’s largest public building for food production
Mar 05, 2022by Jerry Elengical Mar 05, 2022
The 9500 sqm facility in Roeselare, Belgium, rests atop the headquarters of REO Veiling, and was designed by van Bergen Kolpa Architects alongside META architectuurbureau.
NWLND creates a brick red Refuge for a Belgian family with a garden pavilion
Feb 16, 2022by Jincy Iype Feb 16, 2022
Infused with concrete materiality, monochromia, and geometry, NWLND's Refuge is a serene cube with a half sliced roof and massive cut-outs that frame the garden it sits within.
Piet Stockmans exhibits a retrospective of his works with ‘The Archive’
Feb 07, 2022by Rahul Kumar Feb 07, 2022
Belgian ceramic artist and designer opens up his studio for a major retrospective exhibition that provides informative experience about porcelain as a material.
Life-size sculptural installations by Arne Quinze eulogise nature and its diversity
Dec 29, 2021by Dilpreet Bhullar Dec 29, 2021
Belgian contemporary artist, Arne Quinze, creates larger-than-life public sculptures for the viewers to not just celebrate nature, but also let them have conversations around it.
Exploring ‘Back to Business’ with artist Floris Boccanegra
Dec 06, 2021by Manu Sharma Dec 06, 2021
Belgian conceptual artist Floris Boccanegra explores the refugee crisis through his visualisation of human resilience.
Paradise Kortrijk 2021 is a quest to ascertain the existence of an ideal world
Oct 21, 2021by Dilpreet Bhullar Oct 21, 2021
Despite the many challenges, be it political, economic, cultural, or climate change, the interactive art event Paradise Kortrijk 2021 underlines the importance of the world of utopia.
Adorno London returns as one of the leading virtual destinations of LDF 2021
Sep 27, 2021by Devanshi Shah Sep 27, 2021
Through a combination of immersive digital content and physical exhibitions, Adorno London invited eight curators from different countries to present eight distinct collections.
Mathieu Pernot’s ‘Something is Happening’: a photographer’s response to human journey
Sep 16, 2021by Dilpreet Bhullar Sep 16, 2021
French photographer, Mathieu Pernot, with the exhibition Something is Happening at the Jewish Museum of Belgium talks about the refugees’ experience at the Moria camp, Greece.
Shilpa Gupta discusses her interactive art in public spaces and its social impact
Sep 08, 2021by Rahul Kumar Sep 08, 2021
STIR interviews the contemporary Indian artist on the sidelines of her mid-career survey exhibition - Today will end - at M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp.
‘Home Game’: Exploring the dream portraits by artist-duo memymom
Aug 02, 2021by Manu Sharma Aug 02, 2021
STIR discusses concept and practice with the Belgian mother-daughter creative duo memymom, on their staged ‘dream’ portraits that speak of personal identity and society.
Marcin Dudek's ‘Slash and Burn II’ in Brussels is a creative take on a disturbing past
Jun 29, 2021by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 29, 2021
Marcin Dudek's solo exhibition Slash and Burn II at Harlan Levey Projects 1080 is an invitation to relook at the violent past of the artist only to underline the importance of its futility.
Exhibition ‘Ellis Island’ unfolds many layers of what is called exile and memory
Jun 10, 2021by Dilpreet Bhullar Jun 10, 2021
At the Jewish Museum of Belgium, the exhibition Ellis Island with a variety of works by the artists of different generations, is a visual walk through the meaning of home and belonging.
Circular Brick House by AST 77 Architecten pays an ode to rammed earth
May 22, 2021by Jerry Elengical May 22, 2021
The Circular Brick House in Tienen, Belgium, has been built as a personal residence for architect Peter Van Impe, inspired by Martin Rauch's passion for rammed earth.
‘Silence and Space’ at Axel Vervoodt Gallery: the dichotomy of being and not being
May 11, 2021by Devanshi Shah May 11, 2021
Overlapping design and artistic exploration, the Axel Vervoordt Gallery’s latest exhibition at Kanaal in Belgium embeds silence with a tactile and spatial quality.
Parts of a whole: delving into Diederik Schneemann’s Cherished collection
Mar 13, 2021by Devanshi Shah Mar 13, 2021
The Belgian designer works at the intersection of art and design to give rare collectibles a second life through his work.
Anna Boghuigian presents ‘A Short Long History’ at S.M.A.K. Ghent, Belgium
Jan 18, 2021by Shraddha Nair Jan 18, 2021
At her first exhibition in Belgium, traveller and artist Anna Boghuigian shares a series of her old and new installation works.
Hans Op de Beeck creates achromatic immersive works
Jan 05, 2021by Rahul Kumar Jan 05, 2021
Belgian multidisciplinary artist Hans Op de Beeck creates architectural scale works that invite viewers to wander and discover a magical world.
The many faces of lockdown solitude: ‘54+1 Portraits’ by Valérie Barkowski
Dec 11, 2020by Jincy Iype Dec 11, 2020
On facing mundane days in lockdown, Belgian textile designer Valérie Barkowski turned everyday things like leeks and buttons into faces, resulting in her photo book, 54+1 Portraits.
A circular cycling track offers unobstructed views of a Belgian forest
Nov 30, 2020by Pallavi Mehra Nov 30, 2020
Cycling Through The Trees, a raised cycling track in the province of Limburg, showcases sustainable architecture and helps visitors be one with nature.
Inside the box, outside the box: Residence FSD bridges the gap in a Belgian forest
Nov 28, 2020by Anmol Ahuja Nov 28, 2020
Designed by Govaert and Vanhoutte Architects in Brussels, the FSD residence attempts to adapt to its inclined terrain through sequentially placed cuboidal volumes.
Unseen Art: ‘Odysseus’ by Marius Ritiu takes on a journey of a different kind
Nov 09, 2020by Shailaja Tripathi Nov 09, 2020
The artist is keen to share Odysseus with the world, a sculpture based on the King of Ithaca, who he was reminded of after returning to Antwerp following three months in NY.
BuzziPlanter: the sound controlling spatial divider for offices by BuzziSpace
Jul 21, 2020by STIRworld Jul 21, 2020
Antwerp-based design studio BuzziSpace has created biophilic micro environments for workplaces with their collection of colourful acoustic partition planters.
Quentin Wilbaux: an architect’s passion for the Medina of Marrakech
Jun 02, 2020by Christiane Thiry Jun 02, 2020
Architect Quentin Wilbaux, an expert in Moroccan architecture, shares his philosophy and journey of heritage restoration work in Marrakech in an interview with Christiane Thiry.
Miss You, Milan: Richard Hutten, Giulio Cappellini and Valerie Barkowski in reflection
Mar 20, 2020by STIRworld Mar 20, 2020
In our Moments of Affection: Milanese Alliances (M.A.M.A.) series courtesy of FLOS, Hutten, Cappellini and Barkowski show solidarity for the Milan Design Week amid COVID19.
Art, design and architectural events cancelled or suspended due to Coronavirus
Mar 14, 2020by STIRworld Mar 14, 2020
As museums and galleries shut doors and major events get suspended due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, STIR brings you a list of missed action in art, design and architecture.
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