Antwerp · industrial
Entrepôt des Verreries J.B. Gaasch — Anvers
- Architect
- Vincent Cols, Jules De Roeck, P. Lecluyse et Zonen (contractor)
- Date
- 1924 (begun 1923)
- Type
- industrial
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Antwerp
- Status
- inventoried
- Address
- Oudesteenweg 33, 2060 Antwerpen
Art Deco warehouse built for the glass merchants Verreries J.B. Gaasch to a 1923 design by architects Vincent Cols and Jules De Roeck, and constructed in 1924 by the Berchem contractor P. Lecluyse & Zonen, licensees of the Hennebique reinforced-concrete system; planned with three storeys, it received a fourth during construction. The four-bay façade, in red brick on a reinforced-concrete frame with sparing use of bluestone for the base, is articulated by a colossal order of recessed panels narrowing towards the top and two-sided pilaster strips. Its early Art Deco character derives from the sculptural relief and expressive treatment of the brickwork, such as the parapets of brick-on-edge courses and the frieze of projecting headers in a chequerboard pattern, and from the concrete lintel bearing the inscription "VERRERIES J.B.GAASCH" in relief. Converted into lofts in 2003-2004, the warehouse is recorded in the Flemish architectural heritage inventory.
Translated from the French original.
Sources
Other works by Vincent Cols & Jules De Roeck & P. Lecluyse et Zonen
- Century Center (ancien Century Hotel) — Anvers Antwerp · 1929
- Ancienne biscuiterie Le Drapeau (Tabalux) — Anvers Antwerp · 1923
- Immeuble à appartements Art déco, Leopoldstraat 21 — Anvers Antwerp · 1923
- Villa de l'architecte Vincent Cols — Anvers Antwerp · 1922
- Immeuble à appartements Art déco, Lange Herentalsestraat 53 — Anvers Antwerp · 1936
- Immeuble à appartements Peeters-Mennen, Jan Van Rijswijcklaan 11 — Anvers Antwerp · 1932
- Maison Guiette — Anvers Antwerp · 1932
- Immeuble Cols-Spruyt — Anvers Antwerp · 1935