Confidential Tech: Brussels NEO
Belgian heritage, contemporary workplace. The ordinary, carefully collected, becomes something else entirely.
Belgian heritage, contemporary workplace. The ordinary, carefully collected, becomes something else entirely.
- Client
- Confidential, global technology
- Location
- Brussels
- Sector
- Workplace
- Year
- 2025
- Status
- Completed
A phased refurbishment of a confidential technology occupier's Brussels headquarters in the NEO Building on Rue Montoyer. The project includes a considered intervention on the basement, ground floor and level one, alongside a full fit-out of level seven: a new secure client meeting suite, focus and phone rooms, lockers, and a kitchenette and breakout area. The design draws on Brussels itself, the ordinary, everyday surfaces and objects that compose the city, which collected together produce something extraordinary and a clear sense of place. Belgian heritage, from Horta's Art Nouveau to the contemporary restraint of Axel Vervoordt and Vincent Van Duysen, sits in close dialogue with the demands of a modern workplace throughout.
Brussels NEO was the project at which the CGI-to-AI-video pipeline was brought to resolution. Producing a video that sustained coherent spatial sequence required the designer to think as a film director: to anticipate the next scene, to picture what lay beyond the frame, and to encode that reasoning into the prompt. The skill this demanded was not a software skill; it was a directing skill. The studio's designers learned to conceive space in sequence, not in plan. That capability is now embedded in i/o spark. It began here as a new craft.
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