A+ ARCHITECTURE IN BELGIUM, Ernest Allardstraat 21, Brussels (2025)

20/11/2025

Perfect weather to stay inside or visit an exhibition!

Dive into the work and vision of Brussels based office Ouest. Their A+exhibition Urban Legend is on show at Bozar until January 4th 2026.

One of their recent projects is the transformation of a former coal depot in Brussels into a fully connected home for Théâtre Le Rideau. The site originally consisted of five separate buildings organised around a courtyard, each functioning independently. Ouest restructured the entire complex by connecting the buildings, improving circulation for the public, artists, technicians, and staff. At the center of the intervention is a new patio inserted into the former inner yard. This precise, four-sided structure organises all main functions around it—ticket office, bar, theatre hall, and facilities—while bringing daylight deep into the project, including the theatre hall itself.

Don't miss out and get your ticket via a-plus.be!

Image by Johnny Umans.
Plan by Ouest.

In co-production with Bozar.
With the support of Vlaamse Overheid, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Celulle Architecture.
Sponsored by Jansen, Epigone.

15/11/2025

EM2N | PROJECT 04
Lokstadt, Switzerland

Known respectively as ‘Bigboy’ and ‘Tender’, the 16- and 10-storey buildings in the new Lokstadt, a former industrial district in Winterthur, comprise around 210 apartments. The two buildings are connected by a five-storey-high block that accommodates a mix of commercial and residential units. This block flanks a long yard, adjoined by the old draisine workshop building, which houses a kindergarten, primary school and conference rooms for the neighbouring hotel.

TA+LK by EM2N
18.11.25 - 7pm
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Brussels - Aud. 490

Tickets & info via the link in bio or on a-plus.be.

Images by Damian Poffet

Co-production with Bozar, sponsored by Febelcem.

12/11/2025

EM2N | PROJECT 03
Toni Areal, Zurich

For the conversion of the large former Toni milk processing plant into a location for education, culture and housing EM2N aimed to enable the productive coexistence of a wide variety of functions within the project, while at the same time introducing creative impulses that exert a positive effect on the adjoining urban space. Appropriation, change and exchange are expressly called for. To produce variety and diversity the architecture works with grades of refinement that differ from place to place: generally raw, here and there more refined, sometimes overelaborated but mostly under-defined. A wide range of extremely different spaces is created that includes functional public halls and circulation spaces as well as intimate practice rooms, a multifunctional workshop and a highly specialised sound studio: the building as city, the city as building.

TA+LK by EM2N
18.11.25 - 7pm
Royal Museums of Fine Arts Brussels - Auditorium 490

Tickets & info via the link in bio or on a-plus.be.

Images © Filip Dujardin

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08/11/2025

No weekend plans yet? Visit our latest exhibition Urban Legend on the work and vision of Ouest at Bozar!

One of the projects presented in the exhibition is Scarabeus, located in a dense and vivid neighborhood of the city of Brussels. The project reorganizes and connects three existing buildings, each one facing two parallel streets with different qualities. A former cinema and individual housing towards the important Chaussée de Haecht, a former theatre towards the backstreet, much more residential and intimate than on the other facade. The new project takes advantage of the existing qualities and limits of construction and potential and transforms the whole site into a new and inspiring place open on the city, its inhabitants and direct context. We keep as much existing buildings as possible, while offering new relations and general attitude of the site towards the city.

Discover this project and much more...
Info & tickets via the link in bio!

Images by: Corentin Haubruge

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With the support of , , , .archi
Sponsored by , .be

06/11/2025

Call for Architecture & Arts Students!

MA+STERCLASS
With EM2N & Philip Aguirre y Otegui
18.11.25 - 4pm

A+ Architecture in Belgium presents its first interdisciplinary MA+STERCLASS for students. Artist Philip Aguirre y Otegui and Swiss architects EM2N share their work, with a focus on craftsmanship.

Discover how they bring ideas to life, from concept to ex*****on, and explore the societal impact of their work.

Free entrance for students, thanks to Febelcem on the occasion of their Concrete Design Competition.

Register now via a-plus.be.

A co-production with Bozar
Main sponsor: Febelcem

Image 1: Tower, Philip Aguirre y Otegui in collaboration with Architectenbureau Bart Dehaene, photo by Koen de Waal.
Image 2: Central 2 in Zurich © EM2N | Visualisation: Filippo Bolognese

01/11/2025

EM2N | PROJECT 02
Viaduct Arches, Zurich

The viaduct is more than just a bridge. Like a mountain range erected by human hand, in the city it assumes the scale of an element of the landscape or topography. Originally used as a railway line this infrastructure element was to be made into a linear park to form part of a cultural, work and leisure ‘mile‘. Alongside shops and workshops, social facilities, restaurants and a market hall were also called for. This reprogramming of the viaduct sparked off two decisive urban impulses: on the one hand what was once a spatial barrier became a connecting structure, while on the other the outdoor spaces adjoining it were upgraded. The viaduct became a large-scale networking machine and linear building.

TA+LK by EM2N
18.11.25 - 7pm
Royal Museums of Fine Arts Brussels - Auditorium 490

Image 1 © Filip Dujardin
Image 2 © Roger Frei
Image 3 © Joël Tettamanti
Image 4 © Filip Dujardin

Co-production with
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30/10/2025

This article is featured in A+313 Parallel Practices, co-edited with Evelien Pieters.

Naar aanleiding van de twaalfde Concrete Design Competition organiseert A+ in samenwerking met Febelcem voor het eerst een studio. Een workshop zal ruim vierhonderd studenten introduceren in buitengewone toepassingen met beton. Twee inspirerende gastsprekers met verrassende projecten waarin beton een sleutelrol speelt, zijn het boegbeeld van de studio: de Antwerpse kunstenaar Philip Aguirre y Otegui en het Zwitserse architectenbureau EM2N.

Dans le cadre de la douzième édition de la Concrete Design Competition, A+ organise pour la première fois un studio, en collaboration avec Febelcem. Un atelier proposera à quelque 400 étudiantes et étudiants de découvrir des applications extraordinaires du béton. Deux orateurs inspirants, figures de proue du studio, présenteront des projets surprenants où le béton joue un rôle clé : l’artiste anversois Philip Aguirre y Otegui et le bureau d’architecture suisse EM2N.

Read the full article ‘Transformerend beton / Du béton qui transforme’ in A+313.
Get your copy via the link in bio. Students can subscribe to the masterclass on 18 November via the A+ website.

Text Fabian De Vriendt
Image 01 © Gert Somers for Philip Aguirre y Otegui
Image 02 © Kuster Frey for EM2N

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28/10/2025

A+314 COLLECTIVE A+UTHORSHIP

Co-creation, a process in which users and residents reflect together on a design, is not very common in public projects. Public authorities are not keen on lengthy, time-consuming procedures involving non-professional parties as the outcome is unpredictable.

Nevertheless, some designers have chosen to do go down that path. They often work in very inventive ways. Pieter T’Jonck writes about three examples from Portugal, Germany and France by Artéria, Raumlabor and Patrick Bouchain.

Read the article ‘A different kind of architect’ in A+314. Get your copy via the link in bio.

Image 01: Raumlabor, Haus der Statistik, Berlin © Raumlabor

Image 02: Artéria, Manifesto, Lisbon © Artéria

Image 03: Patrick Bouchain, Le quartier Stephenson, Tourcoing © Cyrille Weiner

25/10/2025

Visit the exhibition Ouest. Urban Legend. at Bozar until 4 January.

Much of urban life takes place behind the scenes, out of sight, in the transition between private and public spaces. The city is thus permeated by a subtle dynamic involving concealment and revelation, domestic rituals and shared uses.

Ouest advocates a porous urbanity, a city that is open to the unexpected, to nature, to exchanges between residents, to chance encounters and spontaneous uses, to unexpected synergies. Maintaining this porosity provides the necessary conditions for the city to remain alive.

Images by Corentin Haubruge for Ouest architecture.

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, .archi
Sponsored by , .be

23/10/2025

PHILIP AGUIRRE Y OTEGUI | THEATRE SOURCE

Théâtre Source is a monumental sculpture, created by Philip Aguirre y Otegui around a natural well in a slum district of Douala, Cameroon’s largest city. First and foremost, Théâtre Source is an architectural artwork, but one that nevertheless possesses a clear functionality. The location has evolved into the social and symbolic centre of the neighbourhood: a meeting place for local people, where they come to drink and wash, but also to watch and take part in theatre.

On 18 November A+ Architecture in Belgium presents its first interdisciplinary MA+STERCLASS for students. Artist Philip Aguirre y Otegui and Swiss architects EM2N share their work, with a focus on craftsmanship.

Free entrance for students, thanks to Febelcem on the occasion of their Concrete Design Competition.

Image by Koen de Waal.

MA+STERCLASS
With EM2N & Philip Aguirre y Otegui
18.11.25 - 4pm
Auditorium 490 at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts Brussels

A co-production with
Main sponsor:

20/10/2025

MA+STERCLASS
With EM2N & Philip Aguirre y Otegui
18.11.25 - 4pm

A+ Architecture in Belgium presents its first interdisciplinary MA+STERCLASS for students. Artist Philip Aguirre y Otegui and Swiss architects EM2N share their work, with a focus on craftsmanship.

Free entrance for students, thanks to Febelcem on the occasion of their Concrete Design Competition.

A co-production with
Main sponsor:

18/10/2025

EM2N | Office and Commercial Building Binzstrasse Zurich

For the office and commercial building in Zurich’s Binz district, EM2N put forward their vision on a new world of work, both for themselves as future tenants as for others. Rather than viewing restrictions as limitations, they used them as a productive catalyst for innovation.

The result is a building with unique spatial qualities, varying room sizes, double-height spaces, and a mix of private and shared outdoor areas. Greenery plays a major role, softening the industrial surroundings and improving both climate and comfort. Terraces, external staircases, and accessible balconies foster connection and community among tenants.

With raw materials, passive climate strategies, and flexible services, the design supports adaptability and sustainability from the ground up.

Image by © Kuster Frey
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