Brussels · residential
Villa bifamiliale, avenue des Villas 117
- Architect
- Joseph Diongre
- Date
- 1927
- Type
- residential
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Brussels
- Status
- inventoried
- Address
- Avenue des Villas 117 / Avenue du Parc 164, 1190 Forest
An Art Deco two-family villa built in 1927 by the architect Joseph Diongre on a corner plot, where the slope gives it two extra storeys on the avenue du Parc side. Of brick enhanced with white stone and bluestone, it presents on the avenue des Villas two wrought-iron doors with geometric motifs beneath shaped arches, and a pentagonal projecting bay fitted out as a winter garden. On the avenue du Parc, a basement of Profondeville rubble carries two trapezoidal stone oriels and a balcony with a lozenge-pierced parapet.
Translated from the French original.
Sources
Other works by Joseph Diongre
- Maison de la Radio (bâtiment Flagey) Brussels · 1938
- Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Molenbeek Brussels · 1932
- Maison communale de Woluwe-Saint-Lambert Brussels · 1939
- Foyer saint-gillois Brussels · 1926
- Ensemble de logements sociaux du Foyer Laekenois, rue Charles Ramaekers 14-36 Brussels · 1921
- Ensemble de logements sociaux, rue de Ter Plast 28-44 Brussels · 1921
- Immeubles de logements sociaux, rue Gisbert Combaz 10-14 Brussels · 1922
- Immeuble à appartements, avenue Everard 55-57 Brussels · 1925