Immeubles de logements sociaux, rue Gisbert Combaz 10-14

Three Art Deco buildings designed in 1922 by the architect Joseph Diongre for the Société coopérative saint-gilloise de construction d’habitations à bon marché, a low-cost housing cooperative. Their symmetrical and almost identical elevations, six storeys high and five bays wide, combine washed concrete, rendered elements, red brick and bluestone; a pattern of flat washed-concrete string courses reveals the grid structure of the whole. Doors under a large polygonal canopy, polygonal oriels on triangular brackets, unusual T-shaped windows and balconies with pierced brick parapets enliven the façades, renovated in 1980 by the Van der Looven firm. The buildings are recorded in the statutory inventory.

Translated from the French original.