ELIA SERVICE CENTER has been nominated for the Climate Future Award

We’re pleased to announce that our project Elia Service Center Kruisem has been nominated for the Climate Future Award at the 2025 Belgian Construction Awards.This nomination highlights one of the project’s defining features:a charred bamboo façade (Shou Sugi Ban) - a durable, carbon-storing, circular material choice that offers fire resistance, longevity, and minimal environmental impact.Its deep, dark, glossy finish is not just an aesthetic gesture, but a deliberate response to climate-conscious construction. Designed as a passive office combined with low-energy logistics and modular prefabrication, the Elia Service Center represents a forward?looking approach to building sustainably and responsibly.

ROYAL MINT has won a Green Solutions Award

We’re proud to announce that ROYAL MINT has been awarded the Health & Comfort prize at the Green Solutions Awards 2024–2025, organised by Construction21 - Belgique.A substantial refurbishment of Brussels’ former Royal Mint, the project exemplifies what we believe architecture should aim for today: transformation with intent.Working with a light-filled timber structure inside a retained brutalist shell, ROYAL MINT shows that meaningful impact comes not from building more, but from building better.A warm thank you to our collaborators and client Befimmo, and to our design and engineering partners WOW engineering and Arcadis, as well as Louis De Waele for the execution. Congratulations to all the teams behind the other winning projects.Category: Refurbishment / Office

Architecture is a collective adventure

At architectesassoc+, we don’t believe in solitary authorship. Behind every project is a team — one that listens, questions, designs, and builds together.From our associates — Sophie Vantieghem, Sébastien Zigrand, and Mattias D’Hooghe — to every member of our studio, we share a belief that thoughtful architecture starts with shared effort and mutual respect.Every space we design reflects this. Not just in its materiality or programme, but in the process that brought it to life: structured, collaborative, and human.We’re proud of our team, and of the ongoing work we’re delivering with public and private partners who value the same long-term thinking we do.Let’s keep building — together.