Brussels · residential
Immeuble de rapport et ancienne imprimerie, rue Potagère 157
- Architect
- J. Petitbad, Gustave Carlier
- Date
- 1929 (begun 1926)
- Type
- residential
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Brussels
- Status
- inventoried
- Address
- Rue Potagère 157-157a, 1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
An Art Deco apartment building built in 1929 to plans by the architect J. Petitbad, whose entablature bears the date 1927 in Roman numerals. The façade of three storeys and a mezzanine, in brick set off with French stone and bluestone, has four windows per floor; the iron door to the offices is protected by an Art Deco grille. A side passage leads to a courtyard at the back of which stands the four-storey industrial building of seven bays punctuated by pilasters, built in 1926 to plans by the architect Gustave Carlier to house a printing works; a single-storey wing was added in 1934 by J. Petitbad.
Translated from the French original.