ZUIDERPROMENADE
Waregem, Belgium

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
Architect: Robbrecht&Daem, Goedefroo+Goedefroo
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

HUMAN RIGHTS MONUMENT
Brussels, Belgium

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
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

TOWN CENTRE RENEWAL
Ingelmunster, Belgium

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
Architect: 360 Architects
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

ANTWERP NIEUW ZUID
Antwerp, Belgium

Transformation of the former industrial site into a new neighborhood in the south of Antwerp.

Year: 2013 – 2028
Client: Triple Living nv
Urbanist: Secchi-Viganò
Architects: Robbrecht en Daem, Vincent Van Duysen, Office KGDVS, David Chipperfield Architects, Shigeru Ban, Max Dudler, Stefano Boeri,  Nordlander, etc.
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

EDISON
Paris, France

A total of 290 planters have been installed in front of the windows of this apartment building as part of the ‘Reinventing Paris’ programme. The passionflower climbers create a living façade that locally cleans the air, lowers the temperature, and filters the light toward the living spaces behind.

Year: 2017 – 2020
Client: NFU + Loftissime
Architect: Manuelle Gautrand
Photographs: Michiel de Cleene

HORTA HORIZONS
Brussels, Belgium

A temporary installation shields the Bozar entrance from the adjacent construction site. The existing slope of the street is transformed into five horizontal terraces that converge in a curved amphitheatre at the entrance of the Centre for Fine Arts.

Year: 2017– 2019
Client: BOZAR – Centre for Fine Arts
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene, Yannick Sas

A11 MOTORWAY
West Flanders, Belgium

Design of the integration of a 12 km new motorway in the polder landscape. The project for the motorway becomes the opportunity to reinforce this man-made landscape, using its vocabulary of dikes, canals and alignments.

Year: 2011 – 2017
Client: Via Brugge on behalf of Via-Invest
Architect: Zwarts & Jansma
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene, Via Brugge
COVID CRISIS (M)ONUMENT
Kortrijk, Belgium

A series of monuments offer a place for consolation to remember the victims of the Covid crisis. Each of these monuments consists of a perfectly horizontal circle, broken by a natural force. In Kortrijk the monument is positioned in between a cemetery and a natural reserve, separated by a gully.

Year: 2020 – 2021
Client: Moving Closer & Kunstwerkt
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene

KALANI BEACH RESORT
Halat, Lebanon

A sequence of terraced platforms connects the site with the Mediterranean Sea. Their curve follows the breaking of the waves, as if they had been eroded over time. During the day the platforms are ideal for sunbathing while at night they become an amphitheatre framing the setting sun.

Year: 2015 – 2017
Client: Private
Architect: YTAA

WIVINA ABBEY
Groot-Bijgaarden, Belgium

The grounds of a former abbey have been transformed into a private park. The landscape project reveals the main three landscape figures:  the central lawn, the dense forest, and the fruit orchard. Specially designed lamp posts and bridges are painted in an abstract white colour and rhythm the walk through the park.

Year: 2011 – 2015
Client: Wivina bvba
Architect: De Vylder Vinck Taillieu
Photographs: Michiel De Cleene