Brussels · commercial
Immeuble Gérard Koninckx Frères (GKF), boulevard d'Ypres
- Architect
- E. De Boelpaepe
- Date
- 1935
- Type
- commercial
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Brussels
- Status
- inventoried
- Address
- Boulevard d'Ypres 34-36, 1000 Bruxelles
Art Deco commercial and residential building designed in 1935 by the architect E. De Boelpaepe for the firm Gérard Koninckx Frères, wholesalers of bananas and oranges: an unloading bay and storerooms on the lower levels and in the basement, with four floors of apartments above. The white-stone and imitation-stone façade bears sculpted decoration recalling its commercial purpose, with concave fluted piers topped by gilded bunches of bananas and oranges, and a frieze inscribed “GERARD • KONINCKX • FRERES”. The upper floors end in an attic storey and successive setbacks; the inventory singles out the ironwork of the large folding door.
Translated from the French original.
Sources
Other works by E. De Boelpaepe
- Immeuble à appartements, boulevard de Dixmude 15-17-19 Brussels · 1925
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