Antwerp · residential
Immeuble à appartements Goliath — Anvers
- Architect
- Alfons Francken, Jacques Van Riel (contractor)
- Date
- 1926
- Type
- residential
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Antwerp
- Status
- inventoried
- Address
- Helenalei 16, 2018 Antwerpen
Art Deco apartment building designed in 1926 by the architect Alfons Francken and built on his own account by the contractor Jacques Van Riel, as the last part of a development that includes the neighbouring "Cyclops", "Vulcan" and "Titan" complex. The eight-storey reinforced-concrete building layers a natural-stone base, a body alternating red-brick piers and concrete parapets, and a slate-clad pseudo-mansard; two chevron-shaped bay windows rising into the pseudo-mansard stress its verticality. The name "Goliath" appears in sunken relief in the side entrance, and the entrance hall is clad in two-coloured marble. The building is recorded in the Flemish architectural heritage inventory.
Translated from the French original.