Usquare.brussels: first conversion work starts on iconic buildings of former Fritz Toussaint barracks

The Brussels Minister-President Rudi Vervoort, the rectors of ULB and VUB, Annemie Schaus and Caroline Pauwels, and the director of the Urban Development Corporation (SAU), Gilles Delforge, have announced the start of the first work on Usquare.brussels, the transformation of the former Fritz...
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MolenWest Square: SAU project wins Brussels Architecture Prize

MolenWest Square, the temporary occupation programme initiated by the Urban Development Corporation (SAU), whose infrastructure was designed by 1010 Architecture & Urbanism, has won the Brussels Architecture Prize in the Public Space category. The awards were presented to the winners on the evening...
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Meet U: a neighbourhood programme to smooth the transition from See U to Usquare.brussels

The Urban Development Corporation (SAU) announced in February 2021 that it had decided to extend See U, the temporary occupation programme for Usquare.brussels, until March 2022. The SAU and the See U team then carried out an objective assessment of all projects. The aims were to reorganise the...
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Brussels Region chooses plans by Atelier Kempe Thill - Kaderstudio consortium for first public housing operation at Usquare.brussels

The Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region, Rudi Vervoort, and the Secretary of State for Housing, Nawal Ben Hamou, have announced that the Housing Corporation of the Brussels-Capital Region (SLRB-BGHM) has appointed a consortium led by the architecture firms Atelier Kempe Thill and...
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Brussels Region unveils future integrated support centre for drug users

On Tuesday 12 October, the Brussels-Capital Region joined with the mayors of the City of Brussels and the municipality of Molenbeek Saint-Jean, Philippe Close and Catherine Moureaux, in unveiling the plans for the future Integrated Centre for Vulnerable Drug Users. The Integrated Centre, to be built...
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The SAU at the Realty 2021 trade fair

The SAU will be present with citydev.brussels at the Realty professional real estate trade fair on Wednesday 22 September at 9 am to give an overview of its current and future public procurement procedures: Usquare.brussels, Frame, LE CHAT cartoon museum, Hippodrome, Manchester, Magasin 4 and others...
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Work starts on construction of building that will house LE CHAT cartoon museum

The Urban Development Corporation (SAU) has started work on the construction of the building that will house LE CHAT cartoon museum on Rue Royale, for which it obtained planning permission last spring. The SAU has appointed Gillion Construct through a public procurement procedure to construct the...
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Heritage Days shine spotlight on restoration of former Uccle-Boitsfort Hippodrome

The iconic historic buildings of the former Uccle-Boitsfort Hippodrome, restored by the Urban Development Corporation (SAU), will feature in the 33rd edition of the Heritage Days (formerly Brussels Heritage Days). This annual event organised on the initiative of the Brussels-Capital Region to bring...
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Brussels Region chooses plans by BC Architects and Civic Architects for new Manchester artistic and creative centre in Molenbeek

At the initiative of Minister-President Rudi Vervoort, the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region, acting on a proposal from the Urban Planning Corporation (SAU) in consultation with the SPRB Facilities Directorate, urban.brussels and the Region’s Chief Architect, has appointed the consortium led...
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