The Bruges（B） based office Govaert & Vanhoutte Architects revolves around the synergy between Benny Govaert and Damiaan Vanhoutte. They blend in architecture and particularly this interaction between them brings their designs on a higher level.The studio with eighteen co-workers creates mostly Belgian projects that gradually engulf the West of the country, have been published worldwide and have won numerous awards at home and abroad.

Not only the elegant horizontality or the consequent composition of open and closed surfaces, but also the delicate details and sober structures constitute their modest, but recognisable signature. Simultaneously transparent and corporal, their project define the coordinates of space. De architects slide with lines, planes and borders to the essence of spatial perception. Thanks to a dozen sensitive heritage sites on its curriculum, the Bruges based architecture office shows her empathy for soft passages between present and history.