{"id":147316,"date":"2024-10-05T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/touching-distance-an-apartment-in-a-brussels-brutalist-block\/"},"modified":"2024-10-06T00:18:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T17:18:39","slug":"touching-distance-an-apartment-in-a-brussels-brutalist-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/touching-distance-an-apartment-in-a-brussels-brutalist-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Touching distance: an apartment in a Brussels brutalist block"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nA remote makeover during Covid pays off handsomely for an interior designer and her partnerCan you imagine buying a flat without ever actually stepping inside it? And then doing up the entire place \u2013 bashing down walls, jettisoning fittings and reshuffling the floorplan \u2013 remotely? For most of us the answer would be an emphatic, \u201cOf course not!\u201dKim Verbist would say otherwise. The Belgian interior designer did all of the above when she embarked on the convention-defying transformation of her Brussels apartment, set on the 11th floor of a Brutalist block designed by architect Jacques Wybauw. Continue reading…
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