
23/01/2025
Soft Power
The Brussels Way of Making the City
Roxane Le Grelle and Andreas Kofler point out that Belgium has quietly but steadily evolved into an internationally renowned hotspot for contemporary architecture, urbanism, and landscape design. One important driver has been a growing and refined competition culture, which, among other things, has led to a high-quality building culture and encouraged a new generation of architects to take an active part in the urban development of Belgian cities.
archithese 4.2024 Belgien (Belgium) is available in the online shop at archithese.ch.
Photos: (1) Olivier Campagne for Artefactorylab (2) Maxime Delvaux (3) Delphine Mathy © 2024, ProLitteris, Zurich (4) Michiel De Cleene © 2024, ProLitteris, Zurich