Après l’annonce faite par le Ministre de la Justice de son intention de transférer les tribunaux vers des bâtiments plus performants et plus modernes, nous voulons réfléchir au devenir du Palais de Justice.

• Le Palais est pour les justiciables comme pour les magistrats le symbole d’une justice visible et accessible à tous au coeur même de la ville. De moins en moins d’audiences envisagées au Palais, des activités du tribunal de Bruxelles organisées de plus en plus souvent ailleurs… Connivence dans l’abandon de la fonction première
du Palais de Justice ?
• Référence historique, architecturale, urbanistique et culturelle, le Palais de Justice est par ailleurs un élément structurant de la ville. Il est aussi l’aboutissement du tracé royal et a fait l’objet d’un classement.
• Le vider de son sens, le laisser à l’abandon soulève une question essentielle sur la visibilité de la justice au sein de la ville.

Anne DIRIX, Vincent LURQUIN, Marie NAGY, parlementaires.

Bâtonnier, magistrats, urbanistes, architectes, défenseurs du patrimoine débattront des questions que soulève ce déménagement autour de trois thèmes :

Quelle valeur historique et patrimoniale
du Palais à Bruxelles ?
- Francis Metzger, architecte
- François Schuiten, dessinateur

Quel impact d’un abandon du Palais pour le fonctionnement
de la justice ?
- Luc Hennart, Président du Tribunal de Première Instance de Bruxelles
- Karine Gérard, Présidente de la Cour d’assises de Bruxelles
- Jean-Pierre Buyle, vice-bâtonnier de l’Ordre des avocats de Bruxelles

Quels sont les enjeux du déménagement ?
Qu’en pensent les acteurs urbains ?
- introduit par Jacques Vanderbiest, curé des Marolles

Réponse souhaitée avant le 24 mai : vera.larock@ecolo.be
Adresse : Flagey – Studio 3, Place Sainte-Croix à Ixelles

Luc Deleu - SectorX

Rossicontemporary, Bruxelles, 29 april – 5 june 2010. Vernissage, thursday 29 april from 18h to 21h
LUC DELEU. SECTOR X

From the end of April to the beginning of June, Rossicontemporary presents the new realizations of Luc Deleu (1944), outstanding figure of the contemporary Belgian art scene. Graduated in Architecture in 1969, over the years Luc Deleu developed a personal and original discourse whose goal is to conceive democratic models for the city of tomorrow.

Sector X is the new phase of the Orban Space project, ambitious and long winded project started in 2006 to analyze the public space of 5 continents at different levels, from global to street scale. READ MORE »

Julien De Smedt will participate in Pecha Kucha Night Brussels, Volume #12 on March 19th in partnership with BOX L and La Cambre Horta. The event takes place in the Horta Gallery in Central Station / entrance via Place d’Espagne.

20h Pecha Kucha
21h Exposition/Performance/musique
23h Party

Entrance is free but you must register online.

RSVP / read more here.

JDS was invited by the Danish Embassy to represent the best Belgian-Danish companies at Batibouw 2010!

Come check out our display, from Thursday February 25 to Sunday March 7.

Tomorrow the 25th and Friday the 26th are Professional Days, and from Saturday February 27, to Sunday March 7, 2010 inclusive are general public days.

We are sharing a space with Danish-Belgian companies COWI, Grundfos, Rockwool, and Velux.

Check out more about Batibouw at their website HERE

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26 February – 10 March

Exhibition in Brussels presenting the bookawards and nominations of the Fernand Baudin Prize 2009

At the BIP, Rue Royale, 2-4

1000 Brussels

Opening on 25th of February 2010 at 6 pm

-Agenda was nominated for the prize, and appears in the photo above

- The international jury convened at the ERG to choose the most beautiful books that were designed, published or printed in Brussels and Wallonia in 2009.

The jury consisted of the following six members:

Roger WILLEMS, graphic artist, publisher, chairman of the Jury (NL)

Willem OOREBEEK, artist, teacher (NL)

Jean-Marie COURANT, graphic artist, curator, teacher (F)

David POULLARD, typographer, teacher (F)

Jan WOUTER HELSPEEL, graphic artist, teacher (B)

Drita KOTAJI, book historian, teacher (B)

The 83 received books, presented by category (general literature (fiction), general literature (non-fiction), artists’ books, art books and catalogues, architecture and urban planning books, books for young people and comic books) were placed at the disposal of the jury.

20 books were nominated and the Prize was awarded to 10 books, that were given the title “Winner of the Fernand Baudin Prize 2009”. The three parties of the award winning book; the graphic designer, the publisher and the printer, will receive an honorary diploma.

The Fernand Baudin Prize is supported by Brussels Export, Wallonia-Brussels International (WBI) and the Walloon Agency for Export and Foreign Investments (AWEX)

For More on the Fernand Baudin Prize, click HERE.

‘Feeling a little off-colour this winter? A bit stressed out with listening to what is going wrong with the world? Anima is offering some light relief for the head and desire for the heart with a little cure of animation. There’s nothing like it for putting the neurons back in phase with the zygomatics and vice versa.’

The Brussels Animation Film Festival, Flagey, from 12th to 20th February.

More info: www.animatv.be

PS: note the ever beautiful artwork for the poster by François Schuiten.

JDS/Julien De Smedt Architects will have work exhibited at the Musee du Point de Vue, a traveling artwork by Swiss artist Jean-Daniel Berclaz, from 4-18 February.

You are cordially invited to the vernissage on 4 February at 19h00.

The Musee du Point de Vue is located at 192 rue Antoine Dansaert, 1000 Brussels, and open 24 hours a day/7 days a week

For more on the Musee du Point de Vue project click HERE.

You are invited to join the DESIGNR.RDV event tonight at THEWHITEHOTEL in Brussels, come and catch us at room 43! Champaign is on us!

Thewhitehotel [map]
Avenue Louise 212
1050 Brussels
+32 (0) 2644 2929