Arthur Pladet

Arthur Pladet was an architect based in Koekelberg, to whom the architectural heritage inventory of the Brussels-Capital Region attributes 27 properties, mostly in that municipality and in Laeken; the sources consulted do not give his dates of birth and death. In 1911 he built his own house and office at 22 rue de l'Armistice, in an eclectic style touched by Art Nouveau, with sgraffiti probably by Paul Cauchie, followed by an identical house at 8 avenue Houba de Strooper in Laeken (1912). He worked for many years for the Victoria biscuit factory in Koekelberg: extensions to the plant (1912-1915), a garage (1919), the chocolate factory on rue de l'Armistice (1920, opened in 1921) and a block of workers' housing on rue De Neck (1921). For the same firm he designed the Foyer Victoria in 1922, two Art Deco buildings originally containing 24 flats for its employees, and in 1921 he took part, alongside Victor Bourgeois and Albert de Valeriola, in the social housing of the Foyer koekelbergeois on rue Antoine Court. Between 1924 and 1937 he built a highly consistent Art Deco group on rue Léon Fourez, of which the corpus includes nos. 3, 5, 7, 11 and 13 (1924-1928). In 1924 he built a new house at 275 boulevard Léopold II, with his office on the ground floor, and on the same boulevard he also designed the house and surgery of Dr Armand Swartenbroecks, later mayor of Koekelberg (no. 285, 1926), as well as the corner apartment building at 2 avenue Émile Bossaert (1934).

Translated from the French original.