Xaveer de Geyter – El Croquis 204
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Province Headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium | Xaveer de Geyter, architect Tower Kitchen en Brussels, Belgium | Xaveer de Geyter, architect Faculty of economics, Ghent University, Belgium | Xaveer de Geyter, architect
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Faculty of Economics in Strasbourg, France
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There appears to be one constant about academic buildings: they require extensions, often at the cost of their own initial qualities. In this case, a new library and a cafeteria are required, in addition to the reorganization of an existing building and the spatial restructuring of an interior street. The obvious answer to the competition brief would…
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GZA Residencial care center, Antwerp, Belgium
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GZA Residencial care center, Antwerp, Belgium | Xavieer de Geyter, architect GZA Residencial care center, Antwerp, Belgium | Xavieer de Geyter, architect GZA Residencial care center, Antwerp, Belgium | Xavieer de Geyter, architect GZA Residencial care center, Antwerp, Belgium | Xavieer de Geyter, architect GZA Residencial…
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Province Headquarters in Antwerp, Belgium
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The new building replaces a complex of modernist building volumes that used to occupy the entire site and could not be adapted to today’s sustainability standards. As the Antwerp city centre has few public green zones, the transformation of the site from a merely private, mineral and infrastructural area into a public garden is a crucial requirement…
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Faculty of economics, Ghent University, Belgium
XDGA Xaveer de Geyter and Stéphane Beel
The campus path that crosses the building, the topography, the nearby existing economics building, and the new program together generate the form of the building. The path leads down from the street towards the roof of the existing building. On one side are organized all the vertical circulation shafts of the new building, on the…
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Harquitectes – El Croquis 203
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El Croquis 203 – Harquitectes Winery Clos Pachem in Gratallops La Lleialtat Santsenca Civic Centre House in Ullastret (Girona), Spain Cristalleries Planell Civic Centre in Barcelona, Spain
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House in Ullastret (Girona), Spain.
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The stone wall that marked the boundaries of the property ran around the whole site, and passers-by could only see the treetops. Although the materiality and the irregularity of the wall geometry gave it a particular character and presence, the planning regulations now in force obliged the street to be widened, making it impossible to preserve the…
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