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CCP06 | SHARED LIVING SPACES | BWA-BSL-BCN | 1st EVENT | BRUSSELS | DAY1.1/14th OCTOBER’21

A program that encourages the exchange of experience and meetings.
For this first stage, which will take place in Brussels on October 14 and 15, a program mixing exhibitions, meetings, architour, debates and social events has been set up. It is declined as follows: An exhibition at the Brasserie de la Senne, one of the selected project of the CCP06 Expo.
The exhibition “Shared living spaces” will allow to discover 60 significant projects of avant-garde architecture of the 3 connected territories, 20 per territory. The projects presented are as follows of responses proposed according to the specific context. This exhibition allows to make known young talented offices of the 3 connected territories and to weave durable links between the between the partners involved. The projects proposed by the FWB illustrate the diversity of production on our territory (scale, use, program…). The exhibition will be presented at the Brasserie de la Senne until November 25th.

LOCATION CCP06 SHARED LIVING SPACES EXPO
LOCATION CCP06 SHARED LIVING SPACES EXPO
SPEECH AND VERNISSAGE
OPENING EXHIBITION CCP06
OPENING EXHIBITION CCP06
OPENING EXHIBITION CCP06
GUIDED TOUR OF THE BRASSERIE

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EXPO CCP06_SHARED LIVING SPACES | 1ST EVENT | BRUXELLES | OCTOBER 14-15th

CCP06 | 1st EVENT | BRUSSELS | 14-15th OCTOBER’21

CCP06 | BRU

Following the success of the fifth edition of Cities Connection Project – which spotlighted the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and the city of Barcelona under the theme “reactivate the city” – we are undertaking the sixth edition with a fresh format: a connection between three partners. On the one hand, Wallonia-Brussels and Barcelona, ​​who will be participating again, thanks to the synergies established between CCP, the Barcelona institutions and especially Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures. On the other hand, for the choice of the third city, we decided to return to Switzerland and more precisely to Basel, a city with a ery rich architectural heritage. Indeed, contemporary architecture has become the hallmark of the city. However, in our opinion, its most important asset is the interrelationship between its territory and its borders. The Basel metropolitan area, with a population of roughly one million inhabitants, is unique in being a city that spans three countries: Switzerland, Germany and France. It is a tri-national, cross-border metropolis unique in Europe.

BRASSERIE DE LA SENNE | BRUSSELS
EXHIBITION CCP06

Shared living spaces is the theme chosen for this CCP06 edition. The sharing of spaces and activities, as well as the diversity of programs are the common points of the projects illustrated in this catalogue. In our view what is truly important are the different approaches and processes tried out by architects from different cities or countries while working in highly heterogeneous contexts.

EXHIBITION DETAIL
EXHIBITION DETAIL
GUIDED TOUR | BRASSERIE DE LA SENNE

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The Update Series: Cities Connection Project before, during and after the lockdown.

We’re starting a series of posts updating the activity of Cities Connection Project just before and during the COVID lockdown. We have been actively searching for ways to keep triggering connections among European cities, featuring how architecture practices struggle to keep working in pandemic scenarios.

The result couldn’t be better, as we have witnessed how architecture is a driving agent in shaping cities and how much interest is between architects to learn by sharing experiences.

Re-Activate the city in COAC – September 2019, Tarragona.
  • Rencontres Mezzanine – July 2021, Bordeaux. Photo: Arthur Pequin

The adventure wouldn’t be the same without the inestimable complicity of our colleagues of Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures, the advise of dpr_barcelona in setting hybrid strategies for exhibitions and expanding our network, and the support of the institutions and sponsors featured below. You all make possible that Cities Connection keep opening and maintaining links between Barcelona and relevant cities shaping contemporary architecture repertoire.

Don’t miss the series and stay tuned for further connections coming soon!

Photographers featured in the series: Jerôme Van Belle, CCP, Arthur Pequin, Giedrius Akelis Photography

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Exhibition Import WB_Export BCN. Re-Activate the city in le308. Bordeaux.

June 3rd 2021.

Opening in le 308_Maison de l’Architecture with architects from Bordeaux (Vincent Arné and Samira Ait Mehdi), Brussels (Thierry Decuypere and Gil Honoré) and Barcelona (Judith Leclerc, Jaime Coll, Pasqual Bendicho, Meritxell Inaraja and Oriol Cusidó), radio debat moderated by David Vernet and Sara Meunier and architecture guided visits to some representative projects.

MEZZANINE – RUMEURS17 – Cities Connection Project #10 – Rencontres. Listen here.

Le 308 – Rencontres européennes d’architecture. Read here

Photos: Artur Pequin + CCP