Maisons Art déco, Weldadigheidsstraat 4-6 — Louvain

Two houses of two bays and three storeys, laid out as mirror images and built in 1924 in the Art Deco style to designs by the Brussels architect Charles De Wys. The façades play on vertical and horizontal lines: above the ground floor a continuous bluestone drip moulding links the rectangular balcony of the window bay and the canopy over the door, both on decorated artificial-stone brackets, while from the second storey paired brick pilaster strips with decorated capitals frame the window bay with its stepped wall planes. The large rectangular openings have rounded corners, and no. 6 retains its original joinery. They are recorded in the Flemish architectural heritage inventory.

Translated from the French original.