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Architects of luxury real estate

Especially before the Covid-19 crisis, the luxury real estate market was doing very well. Especially in Flanders, there was an increase in transactions in the months leading up to the lockdown. A dozen Belgian architects targeted a client segment consisting of wealthy people.

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The penthouse, an original concept

It was in the 1920s, also called "the Roaring Twenties," that the concept of a penthouse first appeared in the cityscape. Penthouses, apartments occupying the area of the top floor of a building, were very popular in New York until the time of the 1929 stock market crash. Afterwards, penthouses became scarcer again, especially during World War II. In the 1950s, people put up towering buildings again, and at the same time luxury penthouses reappeared. To this day, these luxury apartments are in high demand, especially in the centers of major cities.

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Steven Beckers: A history of the Belgian pioneer of urban agriculture

At 58 years of age, the Belgian architect Steven Beckers is more active than ever before. After a successful career, he became one of the main advocates of the circular economy and the initiator of urban agriculture in Belgium. An architect out of the ordinary, this portrait shows a man concerned with the harmony between people and the environment around them.

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