The Belgian contribution to the Biennale Architettura 2021 in Venice, curated by Bovenbouw Architectuur, shows a model landscape representing the friction between city and architecture in Flanders. The scenography shows a piece of urban landscape on a scale of 1/15. Project Van Artevelde is one of the fifty recent projects by 45 contemporary Belgian practices contributing to the imaginary landscape.

The seventeenth edition of the Architecture Biennale in Venice runs from 22 May to 21 November 2021 in Giardini, Arsenale and at various places in the city. The theme for the 2021 edition is "How will we live together?"

Cadix shortlisted for BREEAM Awards 2021. The BREEAM Awards are organized annually and reward people, projects and organizations that are leading in the field of sustainable design and development. More than 50 projects from all over the world have been shortlisted this year, including the Cadix A5 project in collaboration with Sergison Bates and Bovenbouw.

Article on Open Call Schrijverswijk in A + 288. “The Housing Experiment” shows affordable individual housing as well as collective and social housing projects, in an urban, suburban or rural context. Projects that testify to a certain experiment with the living dream or that show that the architect is questioning the current housing typology.

‘La nouvelle garde Belge’. Article on day and night shelter van Schoonhoven in A&MOTS n°18 Hiver 2021 – Le Bulletin d’AMO / Architecture et Maîtres d'Ouvrage.

Team CLUSTER + BULK + KARUUR + WIT wins the competition of masterplan Arena Deurne! AG Vespa organized a design competition for the redevelopment of the Arena district together with social housing company Woonhaven Antwerp and VMSW.

“Function/form/function – kindergarten & elementary school in Deurne, Belgium” Article on Kindergarten & elementary school Het Vliegertje on Építészfórum.hu (Hungarian).

“The team at BULK architecten has managed to strike a balance between the constraints of a clean, modern architectural language and the looseness and cosiness that comes with the given function. This might not seem as a huge undertaking, but such a successful implementation as Het Vliegertje is rarely found. Contemporary school architecture, driven frequently by modernist pastiche, often forgets exactly who it is designing for. Whether this results in aesthetically or conceptually pleasing buildings, it only exposes the misdirection of the designers.”

BULK + AVANTGARDEN win the competition to draw up a masterplan for the further development of residential care site De Ceder on behalf of the Municipality of Beersel. In collaboration with Stadim and Bureau Bouwtechniek, we also conduct research into the redevelopment of the brutalist residential care complex on the site.

We have a winner! DETHIER + BULK + GENERAL ARCHITECTURE win the design competition for Cadix A4! AG Vespa sells an exceptionally located building plot in the Cadix district and organizes a competition for a family-friendly housing project. Our design proposal for building block A4 with family housing, communal and commercial spaces, underground parking and green courtyard has been selected for realization.

BULK wishes you happy holidays and a cheerful and inspiring new year!
Our offices will be closed from Friday 18 December 2020. We will be available again from 4 January 2021.

Lecture BULK architecten – Koen Van Bockstal
02/12/2020 20.00 h Antwerp University (watch again here - Dutch)