Five continuous lines in blue stone reveal the beautifully curved façades of this plaza. The daily market and the outdoor terraces are organised in the resulting bands made with reused blue stone pavers from the former sidewalks. A collection of trees brings colour, shade and fragrance to the plaza. 

Year: 2013 – 2018
Client: Municipality of Saint-Gilles
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

The former industrial railyard in the centre of Brussels is transformed into large park, imagined as a river valley. The ballast of the former tracks is stored underground to retain rainwater, while fast-growing pioneer trees on its banks start the ecological succession of this park in constant evolution.

Year: 2012 – ongoing
Client: Nextensa
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Photographs : Michiel De Cleene

Thirty-two trees have been planted around a stone circle in a natural clearing of the Sonian forest. The trees and stones of the memorial isolate a circular area in the forest as place to commemorate the victims of the terrorist attacks in Brussels of 2016.

Year: 2016 – 2017
Client: Brussels Capital Region
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

The central business district along the Part-Dieu railway station is charactereised by high rise buildings. The project looks for fertile soil to plant as many trees as possible to create a new green horizon amid the sky-scrapers.

Year: 2015 – 2021
Client: Lyon Part-Dieu
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Urbanist: l’AUC
Photograph (5): Thierry Fournier
Photograph (6): Laurence Danière

The refurbishment of the courtyard of the old prison is centred around four existing trees. A series of large circular benches provide generous seating opportunity in their shade, while giving their roots more place to grow.

Year: 2021
Client: The Jockey Club CPS Limited
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Architect: Beau Architects
Photographs : Leon Xu Liang

A series of seven monuments, dispersed over the Belgian territory, remembers the victims of the Covid crisis. Each of them is a mutated variation of a broken circle. Together they form a family of interconnected places for solace and silence. In Gent, the monument is a first act in the gradual transformation of a former field into a biodiverse forest.

Year: 2021 – 2022
Client: Moving Closer & Kunstwerkt
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Photographs (1, 2, 3): Michiel De Cleene
Photographs (7, 8): City of Gent

The green buffer between a motorway interchange and a residential area is made by the plantation of one thousand trees. Different species are planted according to different grids, creating an accessible arboretum.

Year: 2011 – 2012
Client: City of Antwerp
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

A pedestrian promenade connects the city hall with a new library, bridging a height difference of four meters. Two large staircases planted with trees provide access and light to the parking garage underneath, while water jets become a new destination on the promenade above.

Year: 2010 – 2017
Client: City of Waregem
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Architect: Robbrecht&Daem, Goedefroo+Goedefroo
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

Set in the park of Tour & Taxis, this monument celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The thirty articles are written in four languages on thirty different natural stones, creating a contemporary obelisk surrounded by eight evergreen pine trees.

Year: 2018
Client: Brussels Capital Region
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

The main market square and station plaza lie on either side of a canal running through the city. Both are refurbished to become part of a single platform spanning the valley. A specific choice of hardscape, vegetation and urban furniture creates a new centrality in the urban sprawl the marks the region.

Year: 2007 – 2020
Client: Municipality of Ingelmunster
Landscape Architect: Bureau Bas Smets
Architect: 360 Architects
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene