Februari 21, 2025

Marchandises has been awarded the RES Award 2025 in the category ‘Best Residential Development’. The project redefines how large-scale transformation can create not just housing, but an entire ecosystem.

Developed on a former freight site in Anderlecht, Marchandises is part of the CityGate I masterplan. The project blends housing, workspaces, and public amenities into one coherent whole. Three architecture firms, each responsible for a distinct section, worked within a shared concrete brick framework while expressing their own architectural language through wood, plaster, or corrugated metal façades.

At its core, Marchandises promotes flexibility and community. It offers modular spaces for workshops, commerce, and services, alongside housing units, green courtyards, and collective gardens. A new inner street reconnects the site with its surroundings and transforms a once-isolated enclave into an active urban connector.

Marchandises doesn’t settle for less impact. It aims for more value: social, spatial, and ecological. The RES Award is not just a recognition of architectural quality, but of a shared ambition to make circular, mixed-use urban development the new normal.