Corporate Skincare

Architecture Curating Practice, Bruxelles
2025

Avec
Juliette Simeone et Aïcha-Louise Wenger

From September 2024 to February 2025, Brussels-based architects Aïcha-Louise Wenger and Juliette Simeone, in collaboration with Paris-based practice Amor Immeuble took part in the residency programme launched by Architecture Curating Practice in Spring 2023.

Their residency, Corporate Skincare, explores the last three centimetres of the facade of Brussels office buildings. As part of the many energy-efficiency renovations that are taking place today, it is the façades of a certain post-modern heritage that are mostly being ‘facelifted’. Stone facings and glazed surfaces give way to a new face, in line with aesthetic and political trends and erasing the wrinkles of time. The aim of the residency is to study these materials in constant dialogue with the heritage of the buildings from which they originate.

The publication includes contributions from Pierre Chabard, Accattone, Daniel Paul, Ellena Ehrl and Tibor Bielicky, and Tiphaine Abenia. Through five articles, the authors open up a new field of possibilities: a re-use where the corporate value of a façade is replaced by a historical, narrative and cultural dimension, marking the transition from an era of destruction of the existing to an era of care.

Edited by Architecture Curating Practice
Text by Pierre Chabard, Aïcha-Louise Wenger, Juliette Simeone, Amor Immeuble, Daniel Paul, Ellena Ehrl, Tibor Bielicky, Tiphaine Abenia
English translation by Patrick Lennon
Graphic design by Bureau DAM with Pedro Mata