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Summary: Since it was established by Riek Bakker and Ank Bleeker in 1977, the Bakker & Bleeker bureau (operating as Bureau B+B since 1990) has functioned as a laboratory for the professional community. Designers such as Winy Maas, Adriaan Geuze and Michael van Gessel have worked there and the office was an incubator for design practices such as West 8, Karres en Brands and Rietveld Landscape. The development of Bureau B+B coincides to a large extent with the emancipation of Dutch post-war landscape architecture and urbanism. Self-assured and autonomous, the bureau reintroduced design to the city, from an unexpected angle. It soon ranked among the world|s best, thanks among other things to its design for the Parc de la Villette in Paris (1982), a commission won ex aequo with designers such as Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi. The bureau has always been interdisciplinary, employing landscape architects, urban planners, architects, land development experts and industrial designers

SWEET 18 toont je de 18de eeuw door de ogen van vijftig hedendaagse kunstenaars, modeontwerpers en designers: van Erwin Olaf en Wim Delvoye tot Walter Van Beirendonck en Philippe Starck. Iedereen kent ze wel, de clichés van de achttiende eeuw. De pruiken en de hoepelrokken. De elegante meubels. Het verfijnde porselein op de overdadig gedekte tafels. De sensuele portretten en de frivole schilderijen. De stijl en de codes van de 18de eeuw vormen een onuitputtelijke bron van inspiratie voor hedendaagse kunstenaars, modeontwerpers, designers, fotografen en illustratoren. 00Exhibition: Kasteel d'Ursel, Hingene, Belgium (01.05.-05.07.2015)

While increasingly more people live in cities, urban peripheries are expending at the cost of nature. This book explains how sustainability can be achieved by urban redevelopment and upcycling. The large-scale processes of urban redevelopment in this book are based on a successful brownfield project in Netherlands, the Paleiskwartier in 's-Hertogenbosch. 'Designing for sustainability through upcycling' tells the inside story of nearly three decades how policies were made, decisions taken, designs created, how the projects developed in phases and how the city government partnered the private sector in a unique way. A series of essays and short interviews with key players involved – including directors, designers, developers and city-officials – provides a detailed overview of how this project was actually realized. This book offers first-hand information of 30 years of development as told by master-planner Shyam Khandekar. Professor Vinayak Bharne places the process of upcycling in the context of developments from other parts of the world. A must-read for those on the threshold of undertaking a brownfield redevelopment process in their city