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Selasa, 02 Juli 2013

Moving to Belgium ?

Plans to move to Belgium?

I would love to share with you beautiful Belgian houses on the market, I came across lately.

The first property is located in the country side of the Belgian coastal area.

The stretched out rural surroundings will hit you, living in this vicarage house.

The house is built in a typical rural style.

Notice the window profiles.

A glimpse inside the house.

Ready to move in.

All above images Immo Dochy.

For more information about this Belgian country home, please click HERE.

The second house is a restored manor in Bruges.

This property is located in the city center of Bruges and is completely restored in 2009-2010.

Although the house is located in the city center, it has a garden and a car park.

View from the conservatory into the garden.

Some rooms still have their original murals.

All above images of the house in Bruges : Immo Dochy.

If you would love to live in the most romantic city of Belgium and would love to have more information about this house in Bruges, please click HERE.

The third house is located in the Antwerp area.

A beautiful farmhouse.

A long cobblestone driveway between old trees leads to the farmhouse.

There is a perfect harmony between the house and the surrounding garden.

The farmhouse is built with high quality materials and attention to detail.

Each room on the groundfloor is connected with the extraordinary garden.

Belgian blue stone floor.

Home office study room.

The decoration bears the signature of Axel Vervoordt.

Alle above images of the house near Antwerp : Immoweb.be.

For more information about this house near Antwerp, please click HERE.

Talk to you soon!

Greet

Jumat, 07 September 2012

Beta-Plus Latest Publications

I would love to inform you about the new September Publications of Beta-Plus Publishing.

I received my copy of each of the new publications this morning. Every book is an inspiration for all of us who are involved with or love architecture, interior design and landscape architecture. As always you will enjoy the pure eye candy photography.

There are 4 new titles.

Cover Timeless Architecture & Interiors – Yearbook 2013

This new Yearbook showcases ten new high end projects of leading architects and interior designers in a timeless style.With beautiful photographs and technical plans.

Image Timeless Architecture & Interiors – Yearbook 2013 Source here.

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Cover Home Inspirations

In this title, thirteen new reports on contemporary tendencies in architecture and interior design are shown.

Home Inspirations Source here.

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Cover New Chalet Living

The follow-up volume of CONTEMPORARY LIVING IN THE MOUNTAINS : seven new mountain chalets in the French and Swiss Alps (Megève, Gstaad, Rougemont, ...).

New Chalet Living Source here.

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Cover Garden’s Quintessence

An exceptional monograph of Jan Joris, garden and landscape architecture, throughout the four seasons.

Garden’s Quintessence Source here.

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If you wish to stay informed about new publications, please contact Beta-Plus at info@betaplus.com.

Wishing you all a nice weekend!

Greet

All images & text : website www.betaplus.com with the approval of Wim Pauwels.

Senin, 09 Juli 2012

Belgian architecture : introducing the ‘Begijnhofstijl’

Since a number of years we do see evolve in the Belgian architecture a new style which is inspired by the architecture of the Flemish beguinages.

So today I would like to introduce you to the ‘Begijnhofstijl‘.

First you do have to know something more about a Begijnhof (Dutch) or Beguinage (English) and its residents.

A beguinage or begijnhof is a collection of small buildings used by beguines. A beguinage comprises a courtyard surrounded by small dwellings. It is often encircled by a wall and secluded from the town proper by one or two gates.Poor and elderly beguines were housed here by benefactors.

The first beguinages were set up in the 12th century.

No country has more beguinages than Belgium.

The Flemish Beguinages have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1998.

For those of you who don't know, the Beguines were various lay sisterhoods of the Roman Catholic Church, founded in the 13th century in the Low Countries (Belgium, The Netherlands), comprising religious women who sought to serve God without retiring from the world. Their success was attributed due to a surplus of women after their men died in local wars. Great number of women had no option but to unite and collectively secure aid of rich benefactors. A common misconception is that beguines are nuns', which is not true.

Unlike sisterhoods that required a life spent apart from society under vows of chastity, these Catholic women looked for holiness outside monastic norms. Although they lived and prayed together within an enclave, partly as a form of mutual protection — some historians believe they banded together after losing their men to the Crusades, which left behind mainly criminals and louts — beguines were not confined to the cloister. Many ministered to the poor and sick outside their walls. Lifelong celibacy was not required either. They could leave the order and marry (but not return). The beguinages were experiments in communal living that worked successfully for centuries. But as the options for many European women multiplied after the 18th century, within the Catholic Church and beyond, the numbers of beguines rapidly declined. Belgium, which once had 94 beguinages, had only 20 in 1856; the members of the sisterhood fell by more than half between 1631 and 1828. Today, the order has only one surviving member, the 91-year-old Sister Marcella (Beguinage of Kortrijk) who lives in a Belgian rest home.

I posted pictures of some of the Belgian beguinages and in between I have shown you images of new build houses, inspired by the beguinage architectural style.

Beguinage of Bruges