If you’re an entrepreneur, or even an employee with homeworking days (hello, new normal), you might want to separate your private den from your professional space. Of course there are great coffee places with wifi, but Brussels also has quite a large offer when it comes to actual coworking spaces.
Coworking goes hand in hand with coliving, aka what we do here, at Cohabs. While coliving is an amazing way to meet new people and discover new cities, coworking is the perfect match for that new flexible and more nomadic lifestyle that has become more and more popular. So here’s a list of the coworking spaces that caught our eye in Brussels.
Topos
Topos (“the place” in Greek) specializes in the affordable luxury segment, with business centres located in fully renovated townhouses on a human scale (maximum surface area of 1,200m²). Here, everything is covered by the price you pay every month, including the great design of the offices.
While interior design and architecture are important at Topos, each coworking center has a nice outdoor area like a rooftop terrace or a beautiful garden.
- Renting options: memberships run from 100 € to 550 € per month depending on the number of days you need and if you opt for the coworking or the private offices.
- Free trial: N/A.
- Locations:
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- Central : 4 rue de la Presse, 1000 Brussels
- Louise: 367 avenue Louise, 1050 Brussels
- Schuman: 34-40 rue Breydel, 1040 Brussels
- Congrès: 35 rue du Congrès, 1000 Brussels
- Merode: 3 rue Abbé Cuypers, 1040 Brussels
- topos.be, +32 2 642 00 42
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Silversquare
With now ten locations in Belgium, one of the first coworking spaces that opened in the capital city has bright days ahead! The goal of these places? Put together entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups and creatives from any sector to enable collaborations and networking.
The atmosphere helps you to focus when you need to, but also enjoy when you can. Community managers actually regularly organize events to foster the spirit of the different places, when the Covid allows it.
- Renting options:
- Day Pass: 25€
- Flex Desk: 295€/month (access to all the services but no fixed desk)
- Fixed Desk: 395€/month (access to all the services with a fixed desk)
- Private Office: from 600€/month
- Free trial: yes, over here.
- Brussels locations:
- Silversquare Europe: 35 square de Meeûs, 1000 Brussels
- Silversquare Louise: 523 avenue Louise, 1050 Brussels
- Silversquare Stéphanie: 54 avenue Louise, 1050 Brussels
- Silversquare Bailli: 231 avenue Louise, 1050 Brussels
- Silversquare Delta : 15-23 avenue Arnaud Fraiteur, 1050 Brussels
- Silversquare Kanal (opening soon) : 4 boulevard du Roi Albert II, 1000 Brussels
- Silversquare Central (opening July 2021)
- silversquare.eu
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Mate
Mate is the new kid on the (coworking) block ! What we like most here is the amazing light coming from the glass ceiling. The creators of this shared office also have an eye for interior design and have imagined beautiful spaces for their members. In this human-sized coworking space, people get to know each other through events organized by the Mate team. The location, right next to place Flagey is also ideal !
- Renting options: memberships run from 299€ per month for a dedicated desk in the coworking space, or 19€ per day for more flexibility, and from 349€ per month for a more isolated desk. You can also choose a private office, starting 1099€ per month.
- Free trial: yes, shoot an e-mail to info@mate-office.com.
- Location: 120 Rue de la Brasserie, 1050 Ixelles
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The Library
The Library is a this sleek, luminous and Scandinavian-inspired coworking space with two different locations in Brussels. The various locations have a lot of things in common but one main impression remains: they give you an instant Hygge feeling. Compared to other coworking spaces in the capital city this one is upscale and chic… and beautiful!
The goal here is to do business in a casual yet refined way, which can be very important depending on the type of clients and partners you need to meet. The places are run by community managers who make sure everyone feels comfortable. The library also organizes free courses and events. However, beautiful things have a price! But the sunny garden and daily cake will make you forget about it very quickly…
- Renting options: memberships run from 245€ to 500€ per month for the coworking space, and from 500€ to 2600€ per month for private office space.
- Free trial: yes, info here.
- Locations:
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- Europe: 40 Ave. Broqueville, 1200 W.S.L
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- Ambiorix: 10 Square Ambiorix, 1000 Brussels
- thelibrarygroup.be, +32 2 342 07 43.
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Fosbury & Sons
From all the coworking spaces in Brussels (and even Belgium), Fosbury & Sons wins the award for the most aesthetically pleasing. With a very strong take on office and interior design, this belgian brand has high-end coworking spaces in Brussels, Antwerp and Amsterdam.
Their landmark is, without a doubt, the legendary Boitsfort modernist building composed of 756 modules of concrete curves and oval windows with copper highlights (signed by the Belgian-Polish architect Constantin Brodzki).
- Renting options:
- 1 day: 24 €
- 5 days/week: from 145 €/month
- There are also options to rent only a meeting room or private offices.
- Free trial: N/A
- Brussels locations:
- fosburyandsons.com
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The Mug
With three locations, The Mug is a human-sized coworking. No corporate vibes here, but more a family-like space to get creative and, most importantly, get sh** done.
The coworkers are mostly young and cool creatives and expats. Finally, being a freelancer often means being alone (this applies even more to people who just arrived to Brussels); The Mug aims at solving that problem and at a very sweet price, on top of that. Oh, and coffee/tea is unlimited. Yes, un-li-mi-ted.
- Renting options:
- 1 day: 25 €
- 3 days/week: 150 €/month
- 7 days/week: 195 €/month
- There are also options to rent only a meeting room or install your legal address at The Mug.
- Free trial: N/A
- Locations:
- Schuman: 6-8 rue Charles Martel, 1000 Brussels
- Flagey: 12 rue du Monastère, 1000 Brussels
- Enghien: 50 Pl. Pierre Delannoy, 7850 Enghien
- themug-brussels-coworking.be
More coworking spaces:
- Wip Coworking: this coworking space isn’t in Brussels, but just a 20-minute drive from the south of Brussels. The big advantage of this place? It’s lost in the middle of the woods and directly linked to the Dolce La Hulpe, a very nice spa.
- Transforma bxl: Transforma has a clear entrepreneurial angle with the specificity that they are always aiming for the most innovative tools, talks, events etc.
- Factory Forty: located just at the south-west of Brussels, Factory Forty offers a family-like atmosphere coupled to a green approach. The garden, the hens and the vegetable garden give a very nice touch to this luminous place!
And here’s a little map to help you visualize all the coworking spaces we talked about, and choose yours!
Cover photo credit: Shridhar Gupta
