The harvest of the first Ghent Architecture Prize shows a surprising number of smaller private buildings. As examples of good design and interaction with the city, we show ten sparkling projects. A dynamic evening full of sparkling ideas from promising offices that share their work with a wider audience.

Twenty years after his lecture at Archipel during Bruges 2002, Cultural Capital of Europe, and eleven years after receiving the prestigious Pritzker Prize, Eduardo Souto de Moura (1952) returns to Bruges on the occasion of the recently completed Beurs-, Meeting- en Congrescentrum (BMCC) in collaboration with META architecture office. In this lecture, he discusses his work, an architecture that manages to bring together modesty, strength and ambition in timeless space.

More than ever, the need for quality open space in a city is apparent. The population is increasing. So is the need for breathing space. A new balance between architecture and ‘landscape’ is a necessity. Steven Delva shares his work.

The newly established Architectureplatform Ghent introduces itself. It is a broadly based urban network working on architecture, design and spatial issues in an overarching partnership. Our ambitions are shared in a large network event.

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Glenn Lyppens researches the future applicability of historical collective housing forms. Garden suburbs, canopies, ground-connected houses, … various typologies are investigated.

The City of Ghent helps promising and local architects with a design brief. The Ghent city architect has developed a procedure to help promising architects with a local Ghent connection find a public design assignment. The first results are known!

The manufacturing industry is an added value for a city. TRANS architecture | urban planning works on various projects in Ghent and Kortrijk that make the theme particularly topical and relevant.

Ghent is growing and space is becoming scarce. As a rejuvenating and colouring city, Ghent is facing spatial and social challenges: cleverly intertwining spaces and, where possible and desirable, compacting them, looking for third spaces that structure social life and strengthen living together. Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Theriot explain their multifunctional buildings as the motor of a neighbourhood.

Ghent has a surprising number of bottom-up initiatives in the creative sector. This angle was considered during the first Ghent Architecture Prize by professional jury member Ciel Grommen. She works on the border between art and architecture, often in cooperation with others, and shows her work.