META architectuurbureau

META is led by partners Niklaas Deboutte and Eric Soors. The office is based in Antwerp and consists of a team of around 15 staff members.

For META, architecture is a craft that requires craftsmanship. This way, every design question can receive a well-developed solution without having to take the easy way out or the well-trodden path. The designs can therefore be somewhat stubborn, offer resistance or even create friction, but they always make the building process simple, even self-evident.

As designer and builder, META takes the freedom to be ambitious. To design a building as accurately as possible so that function and use become easily adaptable. To allow a design to let a building write its own unpredictable history and future.

META has already won several architecture prizes, including the Belgian Architecture Award and the Belgian Building Award. Recently, the project Agrotopia rooftop greenhouse Roeselare won the internationally renowned WAF Award 2022 for ‘Completed Buildings: Production, Energy and Recycling’.

META’s projects are frequently published nationally and internationally as exemplary projects in professional literature for the architecture and construction sector.