As construction crews race to meet the 2024 deadline set by French President Emmanuel Macron for the reopening of Notre-Dame, a jury chaired by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has revealed the winning ...

Bas Smets: ‘We moeten een stad ontwerpen die bestand is tegen de temperaturen van over tien jaar. Want dat het veel te warm zal zijn, dat weten we zeker.’Thomas Nolf Eén kurkdroge zomer geleden vernam ...

Landscape architect Bas Smets is currently collaborating on a book with Emanuele Coccia, a lecturer at the French research institute EHESS. The Italian-born philosopher’s work centres on ideas of ...

Attentive to the genius loci but also to the issues of climate change, Bas Smets is in the spotlight for two projects: the open space around Notre-Dame and the Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale ...

"Building Biospheres" exhibition. Belgian Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. Image © Luca Capuano, Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia The ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “We now understand that plants shape the environment more than it shapes them,” Bas Smets tells me. “So the ...

Since Notre-Dame tragically caught fire just over three years ago, the process of renovating the iconic Paris cathedral has been both heartwarming and more than a little controversial. In the wake of ...

A Belgian company has been selected to redesign the forecourt and gardens around Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. Among the possible changes is an increase in foliage of over 30 percent and the creation ...

Landscape architecture studio Bureau Bas Smets is set to revive the square facing Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris and transform an abandoned underground car park beneath it into a visitor centre that ...

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The grounds surrounding the cathedral will have greener look. As construction crews race to meet the 2024 deadline set by French President Emmanuel Macron for the reopening of Notre-Dame, a jury ...