Trends Stories
Diverse housing and flexible architecture: the future of housing in Luxembourg
Professor and director of the Master's in Architecture at the University of Luxembourg, Florian Hertweck, details the types of housing that answer current housing challenges and discusses the economic context conducive to stimulating them.
Urban resilience, a key concept for the long-term planning of our neighbourhoods
Strengthen the capacity of cities to survive, adapt and thrive in the face of the challenges of the 21st century. Here is the definition of what “urban resilience” is, a keystone in the design of new neighbourhoods in a context of climate transition. Decryption and highlighting with examples taken from…
The new Metzeschmelz quarter, a territory of citizen participation
Metzeschmelz: this is the name of the new quarter on the border of Esch-sur-Alzette and Schifflange on the site of the former steelworks. The name was thought up by a citizen after a competition open to all. A powerful symbol of the importance of citizen involvement in the development of…
Live at the office, work at home: new formulas break the rules
With his colleague Vincent Prioux, from the Parisian agency PetitDidierPrioux, Cédric Petitdidier designed the Millenium residential complex for Belval, where different forms of housing, offices and workshops share the same space. A conversation with an architect who has sensed that working from home and different forms of flexible working can…
Co-living, co-working: new trends or new life ambitions?
Areas redesigned as fully-fledged living spaces are springing up on the outskirts of cities. The new ways of working are changing the way we view our workplaces and with the adoption of environmental issues are giving rise to a whole new way of looking at ones “home”. New trends or…
Christine Muller, the architect engaging with the city
Author of one of the first masterplans of Belval, when the quarter was still in the study phase, the Luxembourg architect and urban planner Christine Muller has always disregarded the divisions between urban planning and architecture, in order to bring a singular vision of building in the city. Based on…