The fall focus on Belgium continues at the UQAM Centre for Design with the exhibition ?Entrer:en interférence- cinq architectures en Belgique/cinq architectures au Québec? (Interference: Five Architectures in Belgium/Five Architectures in Quebec). Produced in partnership with Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures, the exhibition brings together projects by five Belgian architectural firms and sets them side by side with projects by five Quebec firms.
Recyclage de la station-service de Mies van der Rohe, Architectes: Éric Gauthier les architectes FABG. Photo by Steve Montpetit.
Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures (WBA) presents five projects reflecting the diversity in Wallonia and Brussels, which visitors explore through sights and sounds. The projects are located both within and outside cities and are mainly public facilities; they all show the ways in which the architects and their patrons have tried to use architecture to improve the quality of life of citizens. All five transform the use of spaces and the experience of users: urban redevelopment through conversion of abandoned industrial property to mixed cultural and business use; heritage restoration for a project to preserve the memory of works of art; transformation of a public space; a sports facility in osmosis with the landscape in an extraordinary environment; and finally, a private commission for a small pavilion to house and enhance an art collection. Audrey Contesse, the curator of the Belgian portion of the exhib...