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

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.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIEN!
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JDS BXL and CPH offices are ejoying a good ol’taste of American tradition.  Happy Thanksgiving everybody! READ MORE »

To celebrate Mátyás’s last day at JDS the Brussels office had a hungarian dinner cooked by Mátyás family, who came over from Hungary!

All good luck for your future and we will miss you Mátyás !!

Mátyás  with HOP T-shirt

So we had a celebratory dinner to mark the end of the 3 day workshop!
The students are now off for a couple of days traveling around Holland and Belgium.

CHECK OUT MORE ABOUT KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY HERE

It reminds me of the blind that live in darkness. They really can see nothing. All is black. Cars are black, the sky is black, wine is black, their teeth are black. For them yellow is black. The blind live in the dark yet to differentiate them, they‘re given a white stick’
Extract from Quand les avis ne sont pas partagés, un point c’est tout. C’est peu… Michael Dans

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