The architect Sou Fujimoto and Belgian studio AWAA teamed up to design this mixed-use tower complex on the outskirts of Brussels, which will comprise a scooped roof and facade covered in tree-lined balconies.
Sou Fujimoto and AWAA won a competition launched by property developer Unibra and construction company Thomas and Piron, to design the Delta Tower in the Auderghem municipality.

Few details of the project have emerged, however according to the brief the (in August the same firm unveiled Competition for the Citroën Cultural Centre: shortlist of seven teams. OMA, DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO, NOA, 6A...) development is expected to comprise housing, offices and shops, as well as leisure facilities such as a hotel, cinema and a gym.

Fujimoto posted a image of the winning design to his Instagram account, showing two volumens, a tower and an group of lower-rise blocks, all connected by net.

The plot is located near Delta station and the E411 route connecting Belgium and France, and it is seen as a gateway to the southeast of the Belgian capital.
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Sou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido, Japan, on August 4, 1971. He graduated in architecture from the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Engineering in 1994. He established his own architectural practice, Sou Fujimoto Architects, in Tokyo in 2000, and has been a professor at Kyoto University since 2007.

He came to international attention in 2005 when he won the renowned AR – International Architectural Review Awards in the Young Architect category, an award he received three consecutive years, the first in 2006.

In 2008, he won the JIA (Japan Institute of Architects) Award and the World Architecture Festival Award in the Private Houses section. In 2009, Wallpaper magazine awarded him its design award. Sou Fujimoto published "The Primitive Future" in 2008, one of the best-selling architectural books of that year. His architectural projects always seek new forms and spaces between nature and artifice.

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Published on: December 2, 2017
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