Hangar de L'Acide Carbonique Pur — Anvers

Garage shed of the public limited company L'Acide Carbonique Pur, a producer of carbon dioxide, built by the contractor Entreprises Blaton-Aubert of Schaerbeek to a 1938 design; offices were fitted out at the same time in the neighbouring neoclassical house of 1878. This single-aisle shed, on a rectangular plan, is spanned by a steel roof truss. The utilitarian building stands out for an advertising façade in the Art Deco style: a ground floor of yellow brick with recessed joints on a blue-stone plinth, and a painted rendered upper part with a typical stepped crowning. The blind wall carries an advertising relief depicting two cylindrical carbon dioxide containers linked by a cloud of gas, made of rendered metal mesh. Only the window and the door fanlight are original. The building is recorded in the Flemish architectural heritage inventory.

Translated from the French original.