Antwerp · medical · listed
Institut de Médecine Tropicale Prince Léopold
- Architect
- Paul Le Bon, Marcel Spittael
- Date
- 1933 (begun 1925)
- Type
- medical
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Antwerp
- Status
- listed
- Address
- Nationalestraat 155, 2000 Antwerpen
A sober Art Deco complex designed in 1925 by the architects Marcel Spittael and Paul Le Bon for the Province of Antwerp (competition of 1923) and inaugurated on 4 November 1933. It consists of rectangular blocks of yellow brick and bluestone; inside are wooden panelling, wall paintings by Allard Olivier and original stair balustrades. The gardens include a pond, a pergola and a wrought-iron fence with geometric motifs. The complex has been listed since 1995.
Translated from the French original.