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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The project developed by landscape architect Bas Smets, architect and urban planner GRAU, and Neufville-Gayet as heritage collaborators, offers viewing opportunities toward the cathedral. It ...
In the London district of Fitzrovia the Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets has created a “jungle-effect” courtyard for the new Mandrake Hotel. The project uses four storeys of jasmine, passion ...
"Building Biospheres" exhibition. Belgian Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale. Image © Luca Capuano, Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia The ...