Ura

About

URA is located in Brussels and is characterized by a broad spectrum of projects, varied both in scale and function. 'UR'-the name of the first city- supports a way of working. URA searches for universal, basic typologies and transforms them into a contemporary and precise identity in a specific context. The universal lies within the very specific. URA is led by two partners, Yves Malysse and Kiki Verbeeck.

YVES MALYSSE (°1973) yves.malysse@ura.be

graduated from the Sint-Lucas Institute of Architecture in Ghent. He has worked with MVRDV in Rotterdam and Jo Crepain in Antwerp, and with stage designer Bart Clement. He was a visiting professor at TU Delft and at the Academy for Architecture in Rotterdam. Since 2012 he has been a professor at LUCA School of Arts, Faculty of Architecture, in Brussels and Ghent..

KIKI VERBEECK (°1974) kiki.verbeeck@ura.be

Graduated from the Sint-Lucas Institute of Architecture in Ghent and specialized in Architectural Theory at KU Leuven. She has worked in Paris with uapS and Labfac, in Rotterdam with OMA, and in Brussels for Baines and Advisers. She was guest professor at LUCA School of Arts, Faculty of Architecture Ghent and at KU Leuven, Department of Architecture.

COLLABORATORS

Benny Geerinckx (°1975) benny.geerinckx@ura.be
Michiel van der Loos (°1986) michiel.vanderloos@ura.be
Carmen Vandermolen (°1992) carmen.vandermolen@ura.be
Tuomas Peippo (°1995) tuomas.peippo@ura.be
Louis Lories (°1995) louis.lories@ura.be
François Vande Perre (°1994) francois.vandeperre@ura.be
Paul Tschritter (°1996) paul.tschritter@ura.be
Warre Delaplace (°2000) warre.delaplace@ura.be
Sem De Boer (°1999 ) sem.deboer@ura.be
Tim De Munck (°1996 ) tim.demunck@ura.be
Maurits Bosman Bahamón (°1995 ) maurits.bosmanbahamon@ura.be
Eva Vossaert (°1996 ) eva.vossaert@ura.be

FORMER COLLABORATORS

Vincent Vergote / Eva Vermeulen / Soetkin Devolder / Bram Van Sever / Ruben Otter / Jonathan Vanhove / Lisa De Keuleneire / Egon Pollers / Milène Senden / Pauline Truyens / Heleen Eskens / Mathieu Jeukens / Sindri Sigurðsson / Jasper Aerts / Eva Lo / Ruth Van de steene / Ana Horvat / Tim Belaen / Maarten Lambrechts / Charlotte Biesbrouck / Felice Van Tieghem / Marius Vaneeckhoutte / Pauline Durand / Florence Mareen / Lisa Van Com / Jonathan Robert Maj / Isaura Doumen / Jeroen Kessels / Diane Engels / Anton Parys / Harold Vermeiren / Wim Dirickx / Alexander Smedts / Adeline de Vrij / Kaat Volckaert / Pieter Burssens / Tom Broes / Garin Boghossian / Jan de Moffarts / Elena Dragu / Dora Freier / Sila Giriftinoglu / Carlota Marchena Lopez / Frederic Karam / Laura Navarro / Pablo Olmeda Puertas / Angel Pérez Rojas / Olivier Roegiest / Sara Rondou / Giulia Scirocchi / Lorenzo Stroobant / Toon Vanobbergen / Gaspard Van Parys / Francis Vanden Baviere / Mira de Middeleer / Sofie Lieben / Sofie Liesenborghs / Andrea Neri / Alessandro Luraschi

News

Tour Sablon

September 2025

URA has moved to Tour Sablon
Joseph Stevensstraat 7, 1000 Brussel

CGA

July 2025

Construction has been started.

URA designed a new educational campus in Deurne and coordinates the full development, from design to execution, including fixed interior elements. The project combines a kindergarten, double primary school, a double secondary school with a focus on urban agriculture, and two sports halls that will also be accessible to the neighbourhood.

OSA

June 2025

A preview of the new cultural centre at the Sint-Andries site in the heart of Antwerp. The project will accommodate a diverse mix of cultural and social organisations, combining historical and new buildings. This is a collaboration with Altstadt.

WMA

May 2025

The works on the Permeke site in Antwerp have recently started. This site will be transformed into a lively, mixed residential environment with 179 apartments, commercial spaces and green outdoor areas. For this project, commissioned by Matexi , URA Yves Malysse Kiki Verbeeck teams up with eld.

GRAZ

March 2024

URA Yves Malysse Kiki Verbeeck is invited to the Faculty of Architecture In Graz, Austria as speaker for the upcoming Graz Architecture Lectures 2024, from15 – 17 april 2024.

A common theme is developed with a call to students, lecturers and the entire professoriate to submit proposals in line with the theme: Celebrating Collectivity!

In all civilizations where there is the practice of sobriety or frugality , there is always a period of celebration from time to time, frugality must be compensated for with celebration, otherwise it is austerity and it becomes unbearable for humans. - Edgar Morin

An invitation to step out of our comfort zone and have the courage in architecture to face the challenges around us together. We want to give our spatial discipline back its social relevance by exchanging ideas with courageous designers, activists and thinkers in our disciplines. The topics will be serious: resources, uncertainty, ecology, social justice ... but the discussion will be festive!

The event is organized by the Faculty of Architecture with the support of the Institute of Architecture and Landscape and the Institute of Urbanism.

BZR S

March 2024

Within the Ravenstein circuit of galleries designed by architect Victor Horta, the new scenography by URA Yves Malysse & Kiki Verbeeck provides a dualistic support for the artworks in the exhibition. Ordered but with variety, it works systematically yet disrupts the spaces. It physically distances itself from the surrounding architecture, but paradoxically also occupies it. Through the succession of exhibition galleries, you are invited to wander randomly around the elements, tracing an instinctive slalom. Due to the multiplicity of elements, predefined visual links alternate with fortuitous discoveries, offering each of you a unique experience.

We were inspired in our design by the Surrealists’ desire to disorientate and disturb established patterns of thinking and seeing. We also considered Magritte’s exploration of the interaction and tension between words and images and proposed to the curators to present all the artworks on the temporary walls, using the permanent, surrounding walls only for text.

The scenography is constructed as a kit of wooden walls and panels. In times of conscious use of materials, these elements will be integrally dismantled after the exhibition, and incorporated into one or more construction projects.

Come and visit our expo in the Bozar in Brussels, till the 16th of June 2024.

LL102

March 2024

LL102 is one of the winners of the Henry van de Velde Awards 2024 in the category Spaces, the most prestigious design prize in Belgium.

BTL

March 2024

BTL won the Brussels Architecture Prize in the category 'Major Interventions'.

“The school combines both re-use and new construction in a dense urban block, being aware and taking care of the spaces of proximity between the neighbours and also between the two school buildings. The project multiplies the character of exploration and surprise of getting inside a city block, and this intensity influences the different interior spaces, offering a rich and careful sequence of changes in dimension and natural light dedicating a different atmosphere to the different daily situations that are developed in this school.” - jury member Eva Prats (Flores y Prats Arquitectos)

HKA

April 2022

We are proud to announce that together with ALTSTADT - office for architecture we have won the competition for the restauration/repurposing of the classified Saint-Francis-Xavier church in Kuregem (Anderlecht)!

In collaboration with Util, Boydens engineering (Part of Sweco), Daidalos Peutz, ACTLD and EvoPlus

CGA

April 2022

URA Yves Malysse Kiki Verbeeck has won the competition for a double primary school, a secondary school and a sports hall for AG Vespa in Antwerp.

In collaboration with Util, Landinzicht, Studie10, DUSS explorers, I-Kustik