Salottobuono adds on our greenhouse at Horst

Reused greenhouse being repurposed

Very cool to see our reused greenhouse at Horst being repurposed for their spring edition by Salottobuono (and curious what will come next). Pictures by Jeroen Verecht, Maxime Verbueken en Illias Tei...

©Maxim Verbueken, Horst Arts and Music

Le projet de rénovation des bâtiments Zinneke à la radio

Le projet de rénovation des bâtiments de Zinneke mis à l'honneur dans l'émission Façons de voir sur la Première (10 février 2022). Une belle visite guidée sonore de ce projet de rénovation, en co-créa...

Creative Commons, Delphine Mathy

New version of Opalis online!

Well, this has been a long process but we're finally there: a new, updated and heavily extended version of Opalis! Together with Bellastock we've been visiting salvage and reclamation dealers in Franc...

Job opening

Our Design Assistance Team is hiring

We are looking for a new project manager to join our Design Assistance Team. Curious? You'll find the job description here (in French and Dutch). Deadline to apply : April, 18th

Rotor DC internship opening: assistant warehouse / deconstruction / workshop

Are you interested in getting to know the building materials reuse sector? If you are looking for a professional experience in this field, Rotor DC offers a full-time paid internship inside the PROCE...

FCRBE delivrables are ready!

We proudly present: the Reuse Toolkit

After more than three years of work with our FCRBE project partners, we are very proud to present to you the 'Reuse Toolkit', a set of documents with guidelines regarding different aspects of reusing ...

Lots of reuse in an office interior

Pont Neuf transformation is finished!

Just finished: the transformation of an office floor to a learning campus for the employees of AG. Rotor helped evr-architecten to identify batches of reclaimed materials to be reused. From a very hea...

... more than 10 years after the exhibition

Reflections on Usus/usures

In this video, Michael Ghyoot reflects on Rotor's contribution to the Venice Biennale in 2010 and the role it played in the development of Rotor as a practice. Video by la cellule architecture de la ...

Copyright Eric Mairiaux

Rotor zoekt Nederlandstalige stagiair-architect

In het kader van de onze onderzoeks-, advies- en ontwerpactiviteiten zijn we op zoek naar een jonge (M/V/X) stagiair architect met een uitgesproken interesse voor de circulaire economie in de bouw. T...

Video on Rotor's involvement in the project "Rempart des Moines"

Do you ever wonder what exactly we mean by "design consultancy"?

In this video by Logement Bruxellois - Brusselse Woning, Sophie Boone explains in less than two minutes what input we provide, for the organisation's big project "Rempart Des Moines" in the centre of ...

Job opening

Rotor DC is looking for a project engineer

Our sister company, Rotor DC is hiring a part time project manager for the development and installation of a semi-industrial tile cleaning installation. To expand the diversity of tiles that Rotor DC ...

Salvaging of tiles at Val Benoit (2014, Olivier Beart)
Pavilion for Winter in Antwerpen featured in a new publication by AAIIA

Esthétique des structures

We started 2022 very well with the arrival of a new book (in French) by the Paris-based AAIIA, that investigates the aesthetics of contemporary structures and looks at the ambitions behind them. ...

Esthétique des structures - AAIIA

Zinneke nominated for the Brussels Architecture Prize

Even though Ouest architecture and Rotor didn’t win a Brussels Architecture Award this week, we couldn’t be more proud of the ZInneke project: a very creative transformation of a set of (ware)hou...

Ⓒ Delphine Mathy

Het Multi project op Canvas

De Canvas-reeks 'Wat houdt ons tegen' wijdde een reportage aan circulariteit in de bouwwereld. De eerste tien minuten vertelt Lionel Devlieger samen met Valérie Vermandel van Whitewood over de ambitie...

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FCRBE Final event - 16 and 17 November 2021

The time has come for us to dock our ship for the first part of the FCRBE project after 3 years of sea voyage! On 16 and 17 November, we will present, discuss and explore the results of this journey...

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Design assistance for Revive's Minerve project in Edegem

Mock-up for a reclaimed wooden platform approved!

For the development of the Minerve site in Edegem, developer Revive and landscape designers Omgeving identified the construction of a wooden platform as a part of the landscaping as a good opportunity...

Minerve project © Dries Luyten and Revive
Horst - stage for a music festival

Dancing under a greenhouse

For those who are still wondering what happened to our dismantled greenhouse - well, here's the answer! After an intense week of reassembling, the structure now serves as a canopy/pavilion for the art...

© Maxim Verbueken

Reuse at the London Design Festival

Juliet Haysom and Rotor collaborator Aude-Line Dulière brought back some of the missing stones of the Victoria and Albert museum to Exhibition Road, to serve as temporary benches or "placeholders...

Copyright: Ele Mun
From an agricultural structure to a festival venue

Unbolting a greenhouse

Last weekend we unbolted a 600m2 greenhouse in Normandy, bought from a recently retired farmer. A team from Rotor and Rotor DC manually dismantled 36 vaulted arcs. "Why" you ask? Well, we'll give...

Rotor DC is hiring

To further develop its activities, Rotor DC is hiring an office manager (part time between 0,6 and 0,8 FTE). Responsibilities include the HR management as well as the administration of the cooperative...