Some houses you pass on the way leave a lasting impression. This was also the case with this stylish black house: your typical Brussels mansion with an a-typical surprising square volume on the roof. The I Love Belgium team always wondered what was to discover behind the façade. One day we ended up on the site of Bruno Vanbesien architects and there it was… the black house we secretly admired when biking around Brussels. Read the rest of this entry »
22
Mar
2012
Mar
2012
The Black House
24
Feb
2012
Feb
2012
Lace Art
Elodie Antoine is an artist with a love for fabrics and techniques, one of the reasons why she was fascinated by the age-old custom of lace making. Instead of going for the white floral and romantic lace standard, she translated the technique into a structured black and white industrial world. A world where tactility is opposed by the bidimensionnality and the brittleness of the material. Read the rest of this entry »
22
Feb
2012
Feb
2012
0509 by Pascal François
Pascal François is an architect who starts designing from inside out. Light, functionality, materialisation and detail are the fundamental basics for his architecture. The I Love Belgium team selected house 0509 to illustrate this way of conceptualization. A black saw toothed factory roof building with a bright white interior. Read the rest of this entry »
11
Feb
2012
Feb
2012
Transparent living
When we first laid our eyes upon this one story house, we had a flashback to the case study houses program. The clear lines, opens spaces, glass curtain walls and the patio worked as immediate references. It was architecture firm hvh-architecten who designed this elegant house upon an elongated building plot. Read the rest of this entry »
31
Jan
2012
Jan
2012
A Forest Pavilion
When buying an old building plot overtaken by nature, it’s easy to bulldoze away. Instead, the young owner of this plot in Viller-la-Ville fell in love with the surroundings and asked Brussels-based architecture firm Stekke + Fraas to build him a small living unit one with nature. Read the rest of this entry »
14
Dec
2011
Dec
2011
Nest by CSD
Wallpaper categorized CSD architects within the next generation of architectural talents, catapulting them onto the “to-watch-list” of many architecture lovers. Here at I Love Belgium, we don’t like to wait and see, that’s why we’ll show you our favourite, the Nest House, now! Constructed on a very small plot of land in the centre of Antwerp this house measures only 4 meters wide by 12 meters deep. The challenges? To maximize the spatial qualities, to obtain an abundance of light, and to have a maximum of contacts between the spaces. Read the rest of this entry »
14
Jun
2011
Jun
2011
Pop-Up Poem
Colourful bold images popping out of your favourite book, over and over! Yes, pop-up books are reminiscent of childhood memories. Instead of translating a children’s story, graphic designer Sara Declercq choose a poem to be the subject of her pop-up book. The self-written poem ‘my voids’ triggered this idea. The poem talks about emotions of chaos in which we find emptiness. And as we all know, in emptiness lays chaos. Visualising these emotions, Sara combined drawings with complex paper carvings. Read the rest of this entry »
24
Mar
2010
Mar
2010
BLACK. Masters of Black in Fashion & Costume at MoMu Antwerp
The new exhibtion at the Antwerp fashion museum MoMu is called BLACK. Masters of Black in Fashion & Costume illustrates the historic phases of the colour black, with examples from painting, historic costume and contemporary fashion. It also looks more deeply into the textures and the potentials of black in diverse materials, including fur, leather and lace. In addition, the exhibition includes masterpieces by contemporary designers who, like the city of Antwerp, have a special connection to black. With silhouettes by Belgian designers as well as international couture houses: Ann Demeulemeester, Olivier Theyskens, Dirk Van Saene, Givenchy (Riccardo Tisci), Chanel, Gareth Pugh and more.
The exhibition BLACK. Masters of Black in Fashion & Costume runs from the 25th of March till the 8th of August 2010 in MoMu.
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