Brussels · residential
Maison de rapport, rue Archimède 33 et rue Franklin 2
- Architect
- François Cobbaert, Smets et Vekemans (contractor)
- Date
- 1929
- Type
- residential
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Brussels
- Status
- inventoried
- Address
- Rue Archimède 33 / Rue Franklin 2, 1000 Bruxelles
A rental house with a ground-floor shop in the Art Deco style, the result of the 1929 refacing by the architect François Cobbaert of an 1896 house; the architect signed on the rue Archimède side and the plasterers Smets et Vekemans on the rue Franklin side. The three-storey rendered elevation under a mansard roof has a canted corner bay containing the shop door, fronted by polygonal balconies with geometric ironwork railings, and a final corbelled bay on rue Franklin. The Art Deco ornament is characteristic and the old window frames survive.
Translated from the French original.