Construction of BS TERRA has begun. Commissioned by GO!, Areal Architecten and VDS are creating an open learning environment within the Slachthuissite masterplan by Triple Living. Situated between Kalverpad and Kalverwei, the school becomes a public cornerstone where education, landscape, and community converge within a green urban context. Images: www.frame.cx

After a nine-month renovation, the adult education centre has reopened. The introduction of a void reveals the steel structure, bringing light and interaction into the building. Dennis De Smet captured this renewed spatial vitality in photographs that eloquently portray the project’s architectural clarity and human dynamism. Pictures: www.dennisdesmet.be

The conversion of Brouwerij De Ridder in Deurne, commissioned by Andante and Miss Miyagi, and developed in collaboration with Karuur and Collectief Noord, is well underway. The former brewery site is being transformed into a community hub and mental health centre, where heritage, care, and urban vitality converge.

Together with Urbain Architectencollectief and aAD landschapsarchitecten, in the end of 2024 we won Open Call 4602 for the redevelopment of VZW Ter Luchte in Ruddervoorde. Around intimate patios, a domestic and human-scaled care environment unfolds, integrating a local service centre and park garden where architecture, community, and landscape merge into a carefully orchestrated care setting. Images: www.frame.cx

Shortly before the provisional completion, Dennis De Smet captured this social housing project in photographs that reveal its architectural grounding. From the collective courtyard, a dialogue between scale and density unfolds — between ground-level dwellings and urban high-rise. The images express a renewed confidence, firmly embedded within the layered urban palimpsest. Pictures: www.dennisdesmet.be

Sogent awarded the public-private partnership to Alides and ION, with Areal Architecten and DENC-studio responsible for architecture and aAD landschapsarchitecten for landscape design. On the former Gantoise site, a sustainable urban neighbourhood emerges, comprising 150 dwellings and community-supporting facilities organised around a green neighbourhood park, the social and ecological heart of the development. Images: www.infunctievan.be

In 2022, we developed the competition design for the Zwartzusters site in Mechelen, commissioned by Van Roey Vastgoed in collaboration with 360 Architecten, HUB Architecten, and LAND. We envisioned a permeable care and living environment between canal, heritage, and city centre — a valuable collaboration that, though unbuilt, provided lasting insight. Icw VAN ROEY, 360, HUB and LAND. Images: www.jorisbourgeois.be