Maison Petré avec magasin, Velodroomstraat 27 — Anvers

Art Deco house with a warehouse, designed in 1924 by the architect E.A. Van Hemelrijck for Louis Petré. The plans in the building file show only three storeys, but the house has three and a half under a flat roof, probably from the outset. The cornice façade, faced with white natural stone on a low bluestone plinth, opens on the left with a wide gateway giving access to the warehouse that occupies the whole ground floor; on the second storey, a broad stone bay window has a parapet with Art Deco decoration, repeated in the balcony railing that tops it. The mezzanine has geometric Art Deco decoration on its parapet, and the façade is crowned by a fluted frieze broken in the centre by an Art Deco pediment. The house is recorded in the Flemish architectural heritage inventory and stands within the protected townscape of Zurenborg.

Translated from the French original.