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Interview with architect Paul Robbrecht

Robbrecht en Daem architecten has a profound understanding and respect for historic buildings and listed monuments. Their international projects are characterised by thoughtful interventions in urban and architectural settings. Paul Robbrecht provides insight into their approach.

Architecture Biennale 2023

With Lesley Lokko as curator, the Architecture Biennale in Venice has taken on new momentum. Africa and its diaspora are the focus of the main exhibition, which demonstrates many different reflections.  

Inflatable structures

In recognition of a lifetime devoted to inflatable structures, the Tyrolean Architecture Centre is staging an exhibition on the pioneer of air-supported volumes and his oeuvre.

2010 the city of Mechelen decided to restore the Baroque Predikherenklooster monastery. Acoustic elements ensure adequate quiet in the large space and visual relaxation.

The saai at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) presents an exhibition on the Multihalle Mannheim on the occasion of the 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture.

Single-wythe brickwork – and not a thermal insulation composite system – lies behind the rendered facade of a Berlin apartment building designed by Bruno Fioretti Marquez.

An extensive exhibition on Brutalist architecture will be opening on 9 November 2017 at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt.

Sky-scrapers, airports, motorways and artificial islands – such huge projects realised as part of the unprecedented construction boom have increasingly exhausted sand resources.

Next to four projects in the Middle East and Africa, an Islamic Cemetery in Austria has been awarded.

"I Can’t Stop the Dancing Chicken" is a temporary installation composed of three parts. The project by the German artist Gloria Zein, is in honour of the re-opening and 50th anniversary of the Goethe-Institut in London.

Today, a world without digital technologies is unimaginable, with the idea of somebody founding an institute for analogue studies almost as hard to entertain.

Almere is both a city of the arts and an artificial city.

The Victorian Architecture Awards were recently awarded with The "Nigel Peck Centre for Learning & Leadership" in Melbourne by John Wardle Architects winning two prizes: Victorian Architecture Medal and the William Wardell Award for Public architecture.

After the Great Fire in Toronto in 1849, building regulations were passed requiring the external walls of most structures in the city to be of stone or brick.