The Municipality of Evere intends to redevelop several strategic public open spaces located within the perimeter of the “Conscience” Sustainable Neighbourhood Contract, including Kurth Square, Hoedemaekers Square and sections of Henri Conscience Avenue and Notre-Dame Avenue. These spaces currently suffer from a lack of quality, legibility and attractiveness, limiting their role in the daily life of the neighbourhood. The ambition is to develop a coherent vision across these public spaces by strengthening their conviviality, identity and appropriation by all users.

Kurth Square and Hoedemaekers Square occupy strategic positions as major gateways to the municipality. Located in the immediate vicinity of Evere railway station, Kurth Square is currently characterised by a fragmented layout, with parking areas on one side and a constrained public space on the other. This configuration significantly limits its potential as an attractive and welcoming public space that fully embraces its multimodal character. Hoedemaekers Square benefits from existing recreational facilities but still lacks a high-quality and unifying design capable of encouraging collective uses while strengthening the coherence and continuity of the green network. Henri Conscience Avenue and Notre-Dame Avenue play an important role as local commercial centres but do not yet provide a welcoming public realm or a clearly defined urban identity.

Despite the diversity of the sites, several common challenges run through the entire assignment. The project will need to balance mobility and quality of stay, accessibility and traffic calming, as well as the coexistence of multiple uses within a dense urban fabric. Environmental considerations must be fully integrated, particularly through greening strategies and water management. The contracting authority wishes to promote an approach that minimises environmental impact, notably through the reuse of materials and the optimisation of existing elements.

Given the diversity of the sites and the specific ambitions attached to each of them, the Municipality of Evere foresees a differentiated allocation of resources for the interventions.

The assignment requires a multidisciplinary team capable of delivering an ambitious, sustainable and realistic proposal, balancing high-quality public spaces, innovation and cost control.

• Public space design
• Implementation of public space projects
• Mobility expertise
• Environmental expertise (including stormwater management, biodiversity, ecology and phytosanitary matters)
• Circular economy expertise (reuse of materials in public space projects)

• Urbanity 25%
• Liveability 25%
• Climate and Environmental Strategy 25%
• Feasibility 25%

• Invitation to submit a tender: 14.07.2026
• Competition documents will be forwarded by the client: 01.09.2026
• Site visit and briefing: 07.09.2026
• Submission of tenders: 30.10.2026
• Presentation of tenders to the jury: 12.11.2026
• Award of contract and start of the mission: December 2026

• € 1.140.000 excl. VAT – excl. fees

• The fees are fixed at 11% excl. VAT

• A remuneration of € 5.000 will be awarded to each team that submitted a regular bid but was not chosen as a laureate. The competition bid consists of a 10 page A3 note of intent.

If you are interested, we invite you to send an e-mail, before 01.07.2026 at 4 PM, to bouwmeester maître architecte at appel-oproep@bma.brussels, showing your interest, motivation and experience, and giving your contact details and/or those of the planned team (on a maximum of one attached A4 sheet).