Bofill proves the point; There is no industrial space that can not be reused.

We’ve seen the warehouse turned loft, the bunker turned art museum, the garage turned art gallery… In my opinion Bofill has taken it one step further, turning a former cement factory into a multi purpose structure including his architectural office, exhibition space, apartment and more. An absolutely admirable use and reuse of space and structure.

“to be an architect means to understand space, to understand space organized by man, to decipher the spontaneous movements and behavior of people, and to detect the needs of change that they might unconsciously express. It is essential to track down these issues if we want

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Forget about rock’n’roll… think stone… quarry stone. I absolutely admire the use of material that has been implemented into the built of this house by Titus Bernhard architects in Grünwald, Germany! I might not agree on all of the interiors… but the sell is a winner!…

It’s a thin line between «minimalist» and «cold» when it comes to interiors. There’s still nobody who dances on that line with more elegance and style than Joseph Dirand. And yes… regular visitors to my blog might have seen an image or two of his work in previous posts!…

Upside Down Dome by Gijs Van Vaerenbergh

When visiting the St Michiel Church in Leuven one might overlook that the church has no dome. Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh build an installation that takes this seemingly trivial fact as a starting point and generate the missing dome in a remarkable way.

The installation casts light on the architecture of one of the most prestigious baroque churches of the Low Countries from a contemporary perspective. Using the design technique of the catenary, a new structure emerges in the church. The Upside Dome is a real size scale model, comprised of hundreds of meters of chain, which is literally and figuratively the counterpart of the unfinished

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