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​Belfius is the only integrated bank and insurance company that is 100% Belgian and present everywhere in Belgium. Belfius is a solid financial group wholly owned by the Belgian federal state, operating through a simple business model, with strong local anchoring and decision center in Belgium. Belfius aims to be a sustainable and profitable financial player, supporting all segments of the Belgian economy. Belfius is the undisputed number 1 and strong historic partner for the Public and Social Sector and strongly placed in business-to-government matters. Belfius is a leading and trusted partner for enterprises, from SME to large corporations, and serving over 3 million individuals through its physical distribution networks and best-in-class digital and mobile solutions. Belfius has committed to strive for reaching the highest customer satisfaction and put sustainability and social engagement at the core of its values.​

Bas Smets has a background in landscape architecture, civil engineering and architecture. He founded his firm in Brussels in 2007 and has since completed more than 50 projects internationally with his team of 24 architects and landscape architects. These projects vary in scale from territorial visions to infrastructural landscapes, from large parks to private gardens, from city centres to film sets. His realised projects include the Parc des Ateliers in Arles, the park of Thurn & Taxis in Brussels, the public space around the Trinity Tower in Paris La Défense, the Sunken Garden and Mandrake Hotel in London, and the Himara Waterfront in Albania. In 2022 he won the international competition for public space around the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. Each of these projects is part of an interrelated research into the possible role and ambition of landscape projects. The aim is to invent ‘Augmented Landscapes’ by using the logics of nature. These augmented landscapes produce a new microclimate while creating new atmospheres. The collaboration with artists and scientists takes a central role in this research.

Bas Smets received his master’s degree in Architecture and Civil Engineering from the University of Leuven and his master’s in Landscape from the University of Geneva. He has taught in various institutions, such as the Ecole d’Architecture la Cambre in Brussels, the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris and the Technische Universität in Graz. In 2023 Bas Smets was appointed Professor in Practice at the Graduate School lof Design of Harvard University.

With his design studio he explores new ways to transform the city into an urban ecology, capable of producing cooling microclimates to counter climate change.

In 2025, Bas Smets had the honour of representing Belgium at the Venice Architecture Biennale. In November of the same year, he was named Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture.