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NEWS

HET STEEN SHORTLISTED FOR THE ERICH MENDELSOHN AWARD 2026
Our project Het Steen has been shortlisted for the Erich Mendelsohn Award 2026 for Brick Architecture.

TIM ABRAHAMS INTERVIEWS AN FONTEYNE
Tim Abrahams interviewed An Fonteyne for two episodes of the Superurbanism podcast, discussing Kanal and reuse as a cultural practice. The interviews are also published in English and Italian on the website of About:.

LAUNCH PUBLIC LECTURE
On September 21, An Fonteyne will give a public lecture on the work of noAarchitecten including our project Kanal. The lecture will be followed by a debate and takes place on the occasion of the opening of the academic year at the Department of Architecture, KULeuven.

ARCHIWEEKENDS URBAN.BRUSSELS – RAUTERPARK
Philippe Vierin will lead a guided tour on June 13 in and around our project Rauterpark on the occasion of the Archiweekends, organised by urban.brussels.

PLANUNGSFORUM ARCHITEKTUR
On June 11, Jitse van den Berg will speak at the Planungsforum Architektur, organised by TU Wien and the University of Stuttgart. The forum focuses on the decarbonisation of the building stock, climate-adaptive and sustainable design, and future perspectives on building and architecture.

‘SPRING LECTURE’ DUIVELSTEEN – CITY OF GHENT
On May 11 Philippe Viérin will give a lecture on the Duivelsteen, together with Bart De Smaele (Hembyse) and Marie Vanderghote (Broei). The lecture on April 15 takes place in the NT Gent Schouwburg.

LECTURE KANAL – AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KÜNSTE WIEN
On May 11 An Fonteyne will give a lecture on the transformation of Kanal from a landscape approach. The event is part of the lecture series ‘Hands On – Urban Landscape Practices II’.

LECTURE KANAL-CENTRE POMPIDOU FROM CARS TO CULTURE – LUCA
Philippe Viérin will give a lecture on our project Kanal, alongside Kristiaan Borret (former BMA) and Maïlys Gangloff (L’Equipe). The lecture on April 15 takes place in the context of the Soft Power exhibition.

NEW PROJECT NIDELBAD
noAarchitecten together with Vécsey*Schmidt Architekt*innen and Westpol Landschaftsarchitektur has won the competition for the redevelopment of the Nidelbad Areal in Rüschlikon, south of Zürich.

SOFT POWER @ LUXEMBOURG CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE
The LUCA will host the exhibition ‘Soft Power: The Brussels Way of Making the City’. On view from February 27 to June 6, the exhibition includes the project Kanal.

TOUR&TAXIS FEATURES IN A+315 PRIVATE COMMISSIONING
In the latest issue of A+, former Brussels Chief Architect (BMA) Kristiaan Borret cites our project Tour&Taxis as an exemplary case of architectural quality in large-scale private developments.

RAUTERPARK WINS BRUSSELS ARCHITECTURE PRIZE 2025 – SMALL INTERVENTION
Our project Rauterpark has been awarded the Brussels Architecture Prize 2025 – Small Intervention, offering a welcome opportunity to continue the conversations about the public character of our public buildings.

TACKLING TRANSFORMATION
The conversation between An Fonteyne, Ruth Schagemann, Valérie Vermandel and Josiane Schmidt interrogating adaptive reuse in the EU and its de facto capital Brussels has been published on koozArch.

EXHIBITION & LECTURE – NOAARCHITECTEN – 3 X MUSEUM/MUSEO
We’re very proud to announce the opening of the exhibition ‘noAarchitecten – 3 x museum/museo’ that will run in the Galleria del Progetto at the Politecnico di Milano from October 30 until December 22, 2025.

SYMPOSIUM WEITERBAUEN – BUILDING ON THE EXISTING
An Fonteyne will join the panel ‘Transform’ at the symposium ‘Weiterbauen – Building on the Existing’ which seeks to reflect on methods for evaluating existing buildings and to explore strategies for building upon them. The event takes place on November 14 at the University of Stuttgart.

SABATO DESIGN AWARD 2025 FOR KANAL SYSTEM
The KANAL system, a collaboration between Atelier Kanal Architects and OpenStructures to create a furniture collection for the Kanal-Centre Pompidou, has won the first Sabato Award for ‘Best International Product of the Moment’.

21BUILDINGS – WALKING TOUR
Join us for the public walking tour through the European Quarter, part of a research project by noAarchitecten, optimist office and theatre maker Thomas Bellinck. The tour will take place on Saturday 01.11 from 11:00 to 12:30.

HET STEEN NOMINATED FOR THE BRICK AWARD 2026
Our project Het Steen is nominated for the Brick Award 2026 in the category ‘Sharing public spaces’.

INPUT LECTURE ‘ON CONVERSION’ – ACCADEMIA DI ARCHITETTURA MENDRISIO
On October 23 An Fonteyne will give a lecture ‘On Conversion’ to students participating in the Atelier Esch at the AAM.

LECTURE SPRECHEN ÜBER ARCHITEKTUR – WEIMAR UNIVERSITY
On November 4 Philippe Viérin will allow architecture students of the University of Weimar a glimpse of the thinking, and also the doubts, involved in our work as architects.

LECTURE ON HET STEEN – HERITAGE & LANDSCAPE FUTURES
As part of the Heritage and Landscape Futures blended intensive program hosted by the University of Antwerp, Philippe Viérin will discuss our project Het Steen.

LECTURE ADAPTIVE REUSE – CAA ZAGREB
Philippe Viérin will speak in Zagreb on October 6 on the occasion of the release of the bilingual journal Čovjek i prostor/Man and Space, dedicated to the theme of adaptive reuse throughout the work of noAarchitecten.

REVIVING DUIVELSTEEN
Residents and visitors of Ghent have already noticed: noAarchitecten is working on a thorough restoration and repurposing of the historic Duivelsteen into a youth platform. The works will continue until the summer of 2026.

LECTURE IAF x HOUSE EUROPE! DAY IN DUBLIN
An Fonteyne will speak in Dublin on October 16 as part of the New Now Next Talks of the Irish Architecture Foundation and Open House Dublin, Ireland’s largest festival of architecture.

HET STEEN SHORTLISTED FOR THE BIGMAT INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARD
Out of more than 650 entries from across Europe, our project Het Steen has been shortlisted for this international architecture award. The official finalist announcement will follow in September.

SPECIAL LECTURE – ARCHITECTURE FOR HERITAGE BOLOGNA
On October 15 Philippe Viérin will give a lecture about our approach to heritage for the YACademy in Bologna.

HOLCIM FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP – BRUSSELS – ETH ZURICH
noAarchitecten is a partnering firm together with &bogdan, Democo Group, 51N4E and Whitewood for the upcoming ETH Zürich-hosted two-week course by the Holcim Foundation on ‘Design Incentives for Change’ that will take place September 1-12 in Brussels.

TEACHING ASSIGNMENT AY 25/26 – POLITECNICO DI MILANO
During the upcoming academic year 2025-2026 and at the invitation of professor Michele Giovanni Caja, Philippe Viérin will be a visiting professor at the Politecnico di Milano. Students will focus on the European Quarter in Brussels and work on the transformation of office buildings into residential or mixed-use projects, exploring their potential relations with Milan’s rich architectural culture. On October 30 Philippe Viérin will speak about noAarchitecten’s work in a public lecture at the Politecnico di Milano.

DE ZOMER VAN AN FONTEYNE
An Fonteyne will be a guest on the radio programme ‘De zomer van’ with radio producer Evert Venema (VRT Radio 1) on Wednesday 16 July, where she will be looking for songs about ‘discomfort’.

ONLINE LECTURE KEIO UNIVERSITY
An Fonteyne will give an online lecture on 15 July at the invitation of Hiromi Hosoya (Keio University). The lecture will address the ability of design to deal with the ecological, social, economic, and aesthetic challenges of today’s cities.

RESTRUCTURE REMATERIALIZE RETHINK REUSE — ICSA 2025
On the occasion of of the ICSA2025 Conference in Antwerp, An Fonteyne will give a keynote lecture entitled ‘Affective Architectures’ on noAarchitecten, the agency of the architect and architecture, exploring the potential to affect and be affected.

KANAL BRUSSELS – THE WILD BEYOND
An Fonteyne will give a lecture on Kanal as part of the fifth symposium of the Museumsrunde Berlin. The theme of this year is ‘Was Draus Bauen?!’. The symposium takes place on 26 and 27 June in the Berlinische Galerie.

SUMMER EXHIBITION ROYAL ACADEMY LONDON
A photograph by Kim Zwarts of our intervention at Het Steen features at the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition. The work is on display in Gallery VI. The exhibition runs from 17 June until 17 August 2025 at Burlington House.

HET STEEN WINS THE EUROPEAN AWARD AHI 2025 – BUILT HERITAGE CATEGORY
We’re very happy that our project Het Steen was chosen by an international jury as the winner of the biennial European Award AHI for Built Heritage. Congratulations as well to all other winning projects!

LECTURE DOPPEL DER UMBAUKULTUREN
On 5 June Philippe Viérin will lecture and dialog with Dimitri Minten and Tim Vekemans of RE-ST on cultures of reuse at the invitation of the BDA Aachen and the Department of Architecture at the FH Aachen. The lecture will take place at 19.00 in Haus Löwenstein.

JOS. BEDAUX LECTURE
On April 17th, 2025, the second Jos. Bedaux lecture took place in the Cobbenhagen building at Tilburg University. Philippe Viérin gave a lecture on the work of noAarchitecten in relation to that of architect Jos Bedaux, and discussed the architectural generative similarities between the post-war reconstruction architecture of Bedaux, and grandfather Luc and great-grandfather Jos Viérin.

PUBLICATION ARCHITHESE BELGIEN
Edition 04.2024 of Archithese is contributed to Belgian architecture and features Kanal as one of the key projects. The article ‘Reassembling the Urban’ by Tom Avermaete gives furter insight into our approach of implementation and preservation.

PUBLICATION EU MIES AWARDS 2024
As one of the 40 shortlisted projects for the EU Mies Awards 2024, Het Steen is featured among exceptional European architecture in the publication. Read more about the transformation of Antwerp’s historic building in the article, which explores the thoughtful integration of an extension to a building with rich heritage.

LECTURE CHARACTER – EXACTITUDE AND AMIBIGUITY
In times when everything is shifting, reflecting on traditional principles in architecture becomes increasingly challenging. The architectural relevance of the concept of character, as discussed from the 18th century onwards, certainly deserves reconsideration. An Fonteyne questions the spatial meaning of buildings in a lecture for Architektur Forum Ostschweiz in St Gallen.

LECTURE SOFT POWER – KANAL: TRUST IN THE EXISTING
On 22 October Philippe Viérin talked about Kanal, together with Daniel Niggli and alongside Yves Goldstein and Kristiaan Borret in the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. You can watch the lecture here.

EXHIBITION SOFT POWER: THE BRUSSELS WAY OF MAKING THE CITY
Learn more about Kanal and other inspiring BMA projects in the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel from 19.10.2024 till 16.03.2025!

PUBLICATION A+309: PORTRAIT
Guided by a book of W.G.Sebald, we elaborate on our approach, work and team in the latest A+309 Identity & Iconism.

CELEBRATING S.M.A.K.
Delighted to announce that the proposal of noAarchitecten x David Kohn Architects x Asli Ciçek has been chosen for the new S.M.A.K. Museum! Discover more about the project here.

LECTURE CASTELLI E CONTEMPORANEITA
In September Philippe Viérin gave a lecture about our approach to heritage for the YACademy in Bologna, Italy.

PUBLICATION INVISIBLE CARE
In 2012 the Vlaams Bouwmeester launched a call for innovative care infrastructure. Discover our project Coda Wuustwezel in the publication as one of the five Pilot Projects Invisible Care.

PUBLICATION UMBAU ARCHITEKTUR IN FLANDERN
An immersive publication about Architecture of Transformation in Flanders, as an edition of Detail. Alongside an in-depth interview with An Fonteyne on understanding what is already there, our reconversion projects Het Steen and City Campus Hasselt University were featured as reuse examples.