Antwerp · industrial
Ancienne biscuiterie Le Drapeau (Tabalux) — Anvers
- Architect
- Vincent Cols, Jules De Roeck
- Date
- 1923
- Type
- industrial
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Antwerp
- Status
- inventoried
- Address
- Deurnsebaan 52, 2170 Antwerpen
A former biscuit factory built in Merksem for the public limited company "Biscuits Le Drapeau" to a design by the architects Vincent Cols and Jules De Roeck of 1923. Damaged during the Second World War, the complex was repaired and converted into a tobacco factory for Tabalux NV to a design of January 1948 drawn up by the architect Joseph Frickel for the Cols and De Roeck practice. The painted two-storey buildings with an Art Deco touch are set around a large courtyard: on the street, a flat-roofed office building of four recessed bays, the right-hand one, with a passage, topped by an undulating crest; at the rear, a long production wing articulated by pilaster strips and, to the south, a warehouse.
Translated from the French original.
Sources
Other works by Vincent Cols & Jules De Roeck
- Century Center (ancien Century Hotel) — Anvers Antwerp · 1929
- Immeuble à appartements Art déco, Leopoldstraat 21 — Anvers Antwerp · 1923
- Villa de l'architecte Vincent Cols — Anvers Antwerp · 1922