Vincent Callebaut

Following the devastating fire that damaged the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, Vincent Callebaut Architectures has unveiled its vision for the iconic building's restoration. The firm imagines it being topped by a new glass roof and a spire, and for it to receive a significant sustainable upgrade.

Vincent Callebaut Architectures recently won a competition to renovate a historic thermal baths in Aix-les-Bains, France. The proposal calls for significant sustainable design and technology, including lots of greenery, solar panels, rainwater collection, and more.

Vincent Callebaut Architectures brings the outdoors into the workplace with its proposal for a new headquarters for French company Soprema. Named Semaphore, it will boast sustainable technology and have a massive amount of greenery, with around 10,000 plants, shrubs and trees.

Vincent Callebaut has won the commission to handle the green makeover of a large old post office in Luxembourg City. Assuming it goes ahead, the project will involve renovating the building, as well as adding an eye-catching glazed dome and significant sustainable technology.

Sometimes outlandish, often fantastical, but always compelling, Vincent Callebaut's projects range from realizable ideas like greenery-covered towers to conceptual works in which architecture, technology, and nature are blended to make cities a more pleasant – and sustainable – place to live.

Vincent Callebaut Architectures recently unveiled a new conceptual mixed-use tower named Arboricole. Envisioned for Angers, France, the project features Callebaut's usual blend of greenery and high-tech sustainable technology, and would produce fruit and vegetables for its residents to pick.

​Conceptual architecture can be a lot of things. It can be a realistic skyscraper, or it can be an extreme unreal imagining seemingly straight out of a science fiction movie. We’ve seen a lot of strange, and extreme, architecture concepts in 2017 and this gallery celebrates those exciting dreamers.

Vincent Callebaut Architectures has unveiled a blue-sky proposal to regenerate the war-torn city of Mosul, Iraq. The plan involves drones and spider-like robots working together to rebuild five major bridges, with urban farms and afforable homes built atop.

The Nautilus Eco-Resort is the latest sustainable concept from Vincent Callebaut Architectures. Envisioned for the Philippines, the ambitious project would include rotating buildings and sustainable technology that produces a surplus of energy.

Vincent Callebaut Architectures has unveiled a new ferry terminal for Seoul, South Korea. If built, it would resemble a massive manta ray and float to deal with seasonal flooding. It would also include some very ambitious sustainable technology, allowing it to produce all the energy it needs.

Vincent Callebaut has unveiled an ambitious plan to turn former industrial area in Brussels into a cutting edge sustainable community. It involves turning existing buildings into mixed-use spaces and building new greenery-clad high-rises. It's also packed to the gills with green tech.

We regularly cover Vincent Callebaut's sustainable architecture concepts, but have wondered how well his eye-catching renders would translate to real buildings. We need not wonder for long, as the Belgian architect's twisting, greenery-clad Agora Garden Tower is taking shape in Taiwan.