Robbrecht en Daem architecten

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Robbrecht en Daem architecten

Founded in 1975 by Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem, the firm has completed a diverse range of projects

19/04/2026

.sanstitre stelt voor: tentoonstelling Adriaan Verwée en Paul Robbrecht - met opening deze namiddag.

Deze tentoonstelling brengt een architect en een kunstenaar samen. De rollen worden omschreven als omgekeerd: de kunstenaar ontwikkelt een scenografie voor de architect. Deze scenografie functioneert niet als verduidelijking, maar als een ruimtelijk kader waarbinnen de architect opereert. Wat daarin verschijnt, blijft gedeeltelijk onbepaald. De tentoonstelling wordt soms beschreven als een conditie eerder dan een presentatie. In de praktijk worden objecten geplaatst en ruimtes gebruikt, zonder dat dit onderscheid wordt vastgelegd.

Eventuele ambiguïteit is niet uitgewerkt als methode, maar het resultaat van wat onbeslist is gebleven. De tentoonstelling functioneert binnen haar gegeven context en openingstijden. Verdere toelichting wordt niet noodzakelijk geacht.

Opening zondag 19 april (14.00-18.00 uur)
Zaterdag 25 en zondag 26 april (11.00-18.00 uur)

Kasteellaan 445A
9000 Gent

17/04/2026

Unveiled in BRUSK, Bruges: ‘The Whispering Walls Rêve’ by the French artist Laure Prouvost. This monumental four-part fresco is the permanent artwork in the Scala, the freely accessible passageway and centrail staircase of the new exhibition hall. Over a surface of 350 m² the artwork is a playful journey through Bruges’ history and cityscape, the art collection of Musea Brugge, various portraits of historical and contemporary women and referential frescos of Giotto di Bondone.

The official opening of BRUSK will be on 8 May!

Project in collaboration with and .

Photos by Dániel Mátyás Fülöp.

16/04/2026

Almost completed: our housing complex at Slachthuissite, Antwerp.

On the plots of land belonging to the former slaughterhouse in Antwerp’s Dam district, a master plan (by and ) for a new part of the city has unfolded. On the first building block of the site, Robbrecht en Daem designed 3 residential buildings (out of a total of 8). Despite the differences between these three buildings in terms of location and orientation, they share a strong formal language. With a concrete plinth, saw-tooth roofs, flat brick façades alternating with multi-layered façade surfaces and a material palette of soft colours with small accents, they evoke memories of earlier urban industrial buildings.
The buildings offer a rich variety of housing types: smaller and larger dwellings, maisonettes, studios, corner flats, floor-through units and mezzanine dwellings for families. This diverse range pays tribute to the roots of the Slachthuissite as a working-class neighbourhood, a place for everyone.

Entire plot in collaboration with and .

Photos by Johannes Robbrecht and Charles De Muynck.

tripleliving

21/01/2026

Wij versterken ons team!

Robbrecht en Daem architecten is op zoek naar een gedreven (ingenieur-)architect(e) met 3 à 10 jaar ervaring, die van aanpakken weet en op korte termijn beschikbaar is.

Iets voor jou? Stuur je cv en portfolio naar jobs@robbrechtendaem.com.

18/12/2025

A sneak peek at the HUB building of Jessa Hospital (Hasselt, Belgium) that will be built next year! This building will be the first part of the new hospital and is an essential link that will house the hospital pharmacy, the clean room, the kitchen and other logistical functions. Solar panels that will be installed just above the windows and in the pastel blue glass will provide some of the project’s sustainable energy. The first stone will be laid in mid-2026, and the building will be operational from 2029 onwards. The opening of the entire new Jessa Hospital is planned for 2034.

In collaboration with
Images by .ch

17/10/2025

Young people from our neighbourhood came along with TAJO to learn about the profession of architecture. In three workshops, they demonstrated their talents through play and got to work on some crucial themes from our profession. The collaborators of and Robbrecht en Daem, together with TAJO, made it an exploratory afternoon:

Workshop 1: floating house (problem-solving thinking). Imagine: Ghent is flooded and all kinds of waste materials float to the surface. Build a floating house that will pass the test and remain afloat on Robbrecht en Daem’s pond.

Workshop 2: living plan (measuring and fitting, scale). Furnish rooms in our hall on a giant 1:1 scale model of a dream house, first prepared on paper on a 1:10 scale. To measure is to know!

Workshop 3: a sense of façade (materials, textures, colour and composition). The façade of Murmuur is getting new materials. Come and shop in our materials library for your mood board and focus on texture and colour palette. Rubbing each material with wax crayons gives it a different look.

15/10/2025

Extracts from the archive, part II: drawings of the Aue Pavilions for Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany, 1992.

Following the restoration and transformation of Henry van de Velde’s Boekentoren, the archive of Robbrecht en Daem is now also finding a home in this iconic building. We are systematically transferring both the paper and digital archives to the Boekentoren, where they will be preserved in optimal conditions and made accessible for scientific research, education, exhibitions and publications. This archive includes sketches, photographs, plans, tender documents, correspondence, models and ephemera from some 600 projects. The Documenta IX/Aue Pavilions was one of the first projects to be transferred.

The addition of the Robbrecht en Daem architecten’s archive not only continues the tradition of Gandavensia (items related to Ghent) playing a central role in the Boekentoren’s heritage collection, but also reflects the close collaboration with the Department of Art, Music and Theatre Studies, the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Vandenhove Centre. The Boekentoren already houses archives of artists such as Raoul De Keyser, Jan Vercruysse and René Heyvaert. The Robbrecht en Daem archive adds an architectural dimension to this, which ties in with the 19th-century collections of architects such as Louis Roelandt and Louis Minard and the archive of the Boekentoren’s own construction by Van de Velde.

14/10/2025

Extracts from the archive: a letter with sketches of a room for Bruce Nauman’s work, faxed from Robbrecht en Daem to Jan Hoet in preparation of Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany, 1992.

Following the restoration and transformation of Henry van de Velde’s Boekentoren, the archive of Robbrecht en Daem is now also finding a home in this iconic building. We are systematically transferring both the paper and digital archives to the Boekentoren, where they will be preserved in optimal conditions and made accessible for scientific research, education, exhibitions and publications. This archive includes sketches, photographs, plans, tender documents, correspondence, models and ephemera from some 600 projects. Documenta IX/Aue Pavilions was one of the first projects to be transferred.

The addition of the Robbrecht en Daem architecten’s archive not only continues the tradition of Gandavensia (items related to Ghent) playing a central role in the Boekentoren’s heritage collection, but also reflects the close collaboration with the Department of Art, Music and Theatre Studies, the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Vandenhove Centre. The Boekentoren already houses archives of artists such as Raoul De Keyser, Jan Vercruysse and René Heyvaert. The Robbrecht en Daem archive adds an architectural dimension to this, which ties in with the 19th-century collections of architects such as Louis Roelandt and Louis Minard and the archive of the Boekentoren’s own construction by Van de Velde.

19/09/2025

The new art hall BRUSK in Bruges is almost ready to welcome its first visitors. Feel free to stop by this weekend, on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September.

The official opening of the inaugural exhibition will take place in May 2026.

In collaboration with

Photos by Joris Van Huychem

18/09/2025

Mini time-lapse of the construction of BRUSK in Bruges. The new art hall with its exhibition rooms, studios, forum and auditorium is almost finished and will open its doors on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September for a first public experience. The official opening of the inaugural exhibition will take place in May 2026.

In collaboration with

Photos by Hilde Daem and Olivier Salens

11/07/2025

The Friendly Tower in Houthulst, Belgium is open to the public as of this week!

The new observation tower on the open landscape of the IJzerbroeken is a pentagonal figure whose shape incorporates the structure of flowers and plants. The viewing platform offers views of the surrounding historical, geometric bodies of water. The tower aims to be accessible from each side, with a high gateway for adult visitors, a low one for children and three very low, symbolic openings for the smallest passers-by (a shoveler, a sedge warbler, perhaps a fox?). Through a wooden latticework skin, ascending visitors always retain a view of the landscape, while their movements are filtered to not disturb life around the tower.

Together with and .

11/06/2025

Private house in East Flanders, Belgium. Work in progress and an ode to geometry, with the vesica piscis representing the act of looking. Within the project, this space fundamentally looks towards the sky, oriented to catch the late sun and let in its stunning colours.

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Lieremanstraat 64
Ghent
9000

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