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The Green Solutions Awards, an international competition organised by the Construction21 network, promotes exemplary buildings, districts and infrastructure that contribute to the fight against climate change. Beginning October 2019, Construction21 and CAP Construction announced the Belgian winners of the 2019 Green Solutions Awards. The winning projects will now face the winners from other countries, who […]

Last week, the 56-dwelling housing complex in Schaerbeek was opened. The promoter JCX Immo bought the site from a former timber trade and turned it into a textbook example of sustainability: low energy houses, a range of different types of houses, communal areas and areas to be shared that can be reached via paths in […]

Structured Lineages: Learning from Japanese Structural Design presents a selection of essays and roundtable discussions by internationally prominent structural engineers on the intertwined traditions of architecture and engineering in postwar Japan. The ten essays gathered in this volume offer insight into the collaborations between architects and structural engineers that engendered many of the most important buildings […]

The first building of the European Court of Justice was inaugurated in 1973. Following successive enlargements of the European Union, the site has been enlarged five times. In the early 1990s, the French architect Dominique Perrault was involved in the project, with two towers marking the Kirchberg skyline. For the third tower the architect saw […]