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Operation Open Space 2.0

Open space is vitally important. We need open space to safeguard our food supply and biodiversity. The open space also provides our urban society with many other services. It mitigates the effects of climate change, has a cooling function, offers buffer capacity for water shortages or excesses and is needed to generate renewable energy. What’s more, the open space affords us moments of calm, silence and experiential aspects that serve as an essential counterweight to hectic urban living. Over the course of the past century, the open space has been under pressure. We are increasingly eroding the open space for additional urbanisation, for living and working, for recreation or infrastructure. Open space has become a scarce commodity. In Flanders, seven hectares (or ten football pitches) of open space disappear every day. Despite the ‘concrete stop’ – or ‘construction shift’ – announced in the Spatial Policy Plan for Flanders, we continue to swiftly devour the open space. → more

2011: Towards visionary housing production

2020: Take Care!

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27. Oct 2020

Architecture Workroom on the lookout for a research collaborator

We want to expand our dynamic and extremely committed team with a collaborator, a Dutch-speaking profile or someone who masters the Dutch language really well, who wants to contribute to different research trajectories, on e.g. open space, the energy transition, the drought issues, urban management and other themes. → more

24. Oct 2020

Water as Leverage won the Dutch Design Award in the category ‘Best Commissioning’!

Great news! This weekend, Water as Leverage won the Dutch Design Award in the category ‘Best Commissioning’! Together with the Dutch Water Envoy, the GCA, AIIB, IABR and 100RC, AWB co-launched the Water as Leverage program and, together with FABRICations, we wrote the Call for Action in Chennai, Semarang and Khulna. Recently, we have been involved in Water as Leverage REFLECT with the University of Groningen and the OECD. Congrats to the WaL team at the Rijksoverheid, the designers and local coalitions for this tremendous recognition! → more

10. Oct 2020

Architecture Workroom exists 10 years.

A decade of work. That calls for a moment to pause and look back, but above all to unlock the arsenal of projects, insights and stories built up with enthusiasm and care in a brand new website. We dive into our archive for ten days and let a key figure talk about one object or one project for each year. Today we start with the very beginning. 2010: Building for Brussels. We would like to invite you to look back with us, but also look ahead and look forward to the next 10 years. Welcome to the new website! → more

2. Sep 2020

A+287 Debate on the practice of change

How do design agencies contribute to the change agenda, what is the role of the designer in the big turnaround, and how do you, as a designer, accelerate the change? We discussed this with RE-ST, Artgineering, Endeavour, CityTools, Architectuurplatform Terwecoren-Verdickt, 51N4E and Plusoffice in the context of A+287. → more

2. Sep 2020

Launch Interactive Online Documentary ‘Circular (City) Ports’

We present to you the interactive online documentary "Circular (City) Ports", a commission of Circular Flanders/OVAM and made in the framework of the ‘Circular Ports Program’ of the Delta Atelier. The documentary investigates the systemic change that our cities, ports and city-ports are facing in shifting to circular economy. → more

1. Sep 2020

New call Pilot Projects Drought 2020

Partnerships of more than two companies that incorporate (re)use of water in a sustainable way in their business operations, can apply again for a project subsidy Pilot Projects Drought until 30 September 2020 at the latest. → more

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