Jules De Roeck

Jules De Roeck, born in Antwerp on 18 December 1887 and died there on 4 April 1966, was an architect trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. He was Vincent Cols's partner in the Cols-De Roeck office, active from 1912 to 1965 according to the Flemish heritage inventory, best known for its company and office buildings but also the author of garden suburbs, private houses, apartment buildings and religious buildings, mainly in the province of Antwerp. In the early 1920s the pair designed, in Antwerp, Vincent Cols's own villa (1922), the apartment building at Leopoldstraat 21 (1922-1923), the Le Drapeau biscuit factory in Merksem (1923) and the warehouse of Verreries J.B. Gaasch (1923-1924). In 1929, with Jan Vanhoenacker and John Van Beurden, they designed the Art Deco tower of the former Century Hotel on De Keyserlei. In the 1930s their work moved between a restrained Art Deco and modernism, as in the Guiette house in Berchem (1932), the Peeters-Mennen apartment building (1932) and the Cols-Spruyt building (1935). After 1965 some of the office's staff carried on the firm under the name Groep Vincent Cols.

Translated from the French original.