Belgium's Architecture Offices Through the Lens of Marc Goodwin

""An office should inspire - we aim to create a pleasant workspace that fuels creativity and reflects our identity as a design-driven practice." "A generous office." "For us, our office space is a home office away from home, with all the comforts of leisure but with the focus on work." "A place in which you can feel the group, the collective project. An atelier more than an office.""

""An office that evolves with its people, where the people shape the space, and the space, in turn, reshapes the office. A space that fosters spontaneous interaction & communication, cultivating creativity and innovation to flourish.""

""A good office space combines aesthetics and function to create a space that you can sit and move within with calm and ease, while also enabling healthy social interactions. What we love about our office is the spaciousness, light, the penthouse views of the city from several perspectives, and our plants that add life and warmth to the raw and exposed surfaces.""

Photographs document architecture studios across Antwerp, Brussels, and Ghent, including large offices like B-architecten, POLO, and Binst Architects, and smaller practices such as Studio Okami, Stand Van Zaken, and Bruno Spaas Architectuur. Many studios occupy repurposed buildings with layered histories — former workshops, cinemas, storage facilities, and waterfront structures — that inform their atmospheres. Each practice answers the same question about what constitutes a good office and office culture, revealing themes of home-like comfort, collective atelier dynamics, generosity of space, evolving environments shaped by people, spontaneous interaction, and a balance of aesthetics, function, light, and greenery.

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