Crepain Binst Architecture nv

Profile of Crepain Binst Architecture nv

Business Name

Crepain Binst Architecture nv

Location

Belgium

Services

Architecture

Website

http://www.crepainbinst.be

[L-R] Dirk Engelen, Luc Binst, Sigrid Hubloux, Jan Vrancken, and Jo Taillieu

Principal(s)

Luc Binst (1973), Jan Vrancken (1965), Dirk Engelen (1963), Jo Taillieu (1971), and Sigrid Hubloux (1971)

Philosophy

Crepain Binst Architecture, which was founded 2006, is the result of a creative marriage between architect and urban development experts Jo Crepain and Luc Binst. A team of 60 architectural engineers, architects, interior architects and urban development experts work in this multidisciplinary company. Today, after the death of Jo Crepain (2008), the founder of our company, we are faced with the extraordinary challenge of continuing his architectural legacy and ensuring that the collaboration that began three years ago at Crepain Binst Architecture, will be continued and built upon in a worthy manner with renewed ambition. Luc Binst has now taken over the company earlier than planned. This takeover was accompanied by several important management adjustments intended to strengthen the office internally and prepare it for its "second youth", as Jo so often put it. The new management structure is built upon a "managerial clover leaf" construction. In addition to Luc Binst as CEO, it consists of Architect Partners Dirk Engelen and Jo Taillieu, COO Jan Vrancken and Design Traffic Manager, Sigrid Hubloux.

We write "Architecture" and "Ambition" with a capital A: we strive and work constantly to achieve the very best possible results based on realistic, well-thought out foundations. A broad range of projects has helped us to become and operate as a top agency that can offer a wide range of possibilities and make its artistic presence felt.

Crepain Binst Architecture deals with architecture as a practical artistic medium to transform assignments into abstractly built creations of conceptual logic and simplicity. The useful signals are constantly distilled from every site, with its peripheral conditions and its own identity, as basis and the setting for every designing process. Considering the client's requirements, limitations, demands and acceptable standards, we continue to look for solutions through communication and creativity. Conceptual purity, proportion, dynamics, expression, light, colour, space and scale form our core values. The designs are turned into actual realizations following research into the use of renewable materials, conceptually supporting detail and a refined application of texture, to reflect our own clearly recognizable identity. Apart from alterations or the construction of new homes, offices and public buildings, a "cross-pollination" by other creative media also forms part of the range of assignments.

Background

• Founded: 2006
• Offices: 1
• Design team: 70

Key projects

• Artevelde, college, Ghent, Belgium, 2009
• office complex, Leuven, Belgium, 2008
• Rega V & V, factorial, Leuven, Belgium, 2007
• Niko, offices, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, 2007
• City Hall, Lommel, Belgium, 2005
• University, Antwerp, Belgium, 2005
• Luc Binst, detached lofthouse, Humbeek, Belgium, 2004
• Pothoofd, deluxe apartments, Deventer, Netherlands, 2004
• Telindus, offices, Haasrode, Belgium, 2002
• Renson, offices, Waregem, Belgium 2002

Key publications

• Book 'Townhouses', Callwey, 2008
• Book 'L.A.P.', Architectuurwijzer Limburg, 2008
• Book 'Rehabilition in housing', editorial pencil, 2008
• Book 'Domestic interiors now', Links, 2007
• Book 'Steel design', daab, 2007
• Book 'Das ideale einfamilienhaus', Callwey, September 2007
• Book 'Casas, country clubs', Kliczkowski Publisher, juli 2007
• Book 'Plastic design', daab, 2007
• Book 'The big book of lofts', Collins Design, Antonio Corcuera - Aitana Lleonart, 2007
• Book 'Belgian Budget Book', Standaard uitgeverij - 2voor5', 2007

Key awards

• Energy contest, District of Brussels - 'Example buildings - offices' - Belgium, 2007
• Lensvelt de Architect Interior Award, Netherlands, 2006
• The Marble Architectural Award, Europe, Italia, 2006
• Business premises of the year, Trends, Belgium, 2003
• West-Vlaanderen Provincial Award Nomination, Belgium, 2003
• FAB Awards - Energy Award, Belgium, 2003
• Vlaams-Brabant Provincial Award, Belgium, 2002
• Hilversum Architecture Award, Netherlands, 2002
• International award for architecture, Eternit, Belgium 1998