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A barn house doesn’t have to be a trip down rural memory lane. Architect Pascal François proved this in Olmen: he built a new stable unit next to an old barn.
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The Muller van Severen designer duo's work revolves in essence around the spatial interaction between object and architecture.
Could it be that nature is a talented artist? Is it a coincidence that we ascribe artistic value to the swirls and veins in marble? Indeed, they sometimes remind us of calligraphy, colour field painting, or abstract expressionism. Like this polished Nero Dorato—say, the Clyfford Still of marbles.
If architecture were a kind of Tetris, Cubyc would be the champion. The architecture firm from Bruges assembled a villa in Keerbergen as if it were a stack of beams and blocks. Cubyc deftly builds tension: as you drive up to the house, you notice that the front is totally closed. Only a black garage space and a faceted window above the front door have been surgically cut out of the mysterious white volume.
‘I hope that those who do not know the Lys will come watch the sunset from my living room some evening’, wrote doctor Martens after Henry Van de Velde had finished his Villa Landing and his Polikliniek on the other side of the street in 1934 and 1935. It is in the spirit of his late Art Deco style that Nathalie Deboel converted the meanwhile mutilated building to restaurant Au Bain Marie.
Ask the architect duo Tom De Meester and Tine Vliegen what they think is the most beautiful application of natural stone in the world and their answer is guaranteed to be Mies van der Rohe's onyx wall in Villa Tugendhat. This hanging cabinet in Verde Patricia marble, however, comes in a very close second.
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