Antwerp
Antwerp — from Oudevaartplaats to Falconplein
Between Oudevaartplaats and Falconplein, this route brings together Art Deco apartment, shop and office buildings, a warehouse and the wing of a school, built between 1920 and 1936. It passes Arthur Vander Heyden’s Luyten building (1931), whose top is decorated with a dragon, Gustave Fierens’s Warmenbol building on the Kleine Markt (1935), Willie Pijl’s offices for Ruys & Co (1920) and Frank Blockx’s corner building on the Hoogstraat (1936). On the Suikerrui, Louis De Belder designed two buildings (1927 and 1929); the second, built for Julien Riga, bears a frieze with an ocean liner, a train, a car and an aeroplane. The route then reaches the Wijngaardstraat, the chapel and boarding school of the Catholic teacher-training college on the Raapstraat (1928) and the Klapdorp, followed by Jan Jacobs’s warehouse for the firm B.M. Spiers & Son (1924), Louis Hamaide’s Herbosch Building (1925), with the bow of a barge projecting at the corner, and the Commercial Building on the Falconplein (1925).
12 stops · Duration 3h15 · Distance 3,5 km
Immeuble Luyten, Oudevaartplaats 20 — Anvers
Apartment building in the Art Deco style built for the Luyten brothers and sisters after a 1931 design by Arthur Vander Heyden; it belongs to the late work of the architect, who in
Immeuble à appartements Warmenbol — Anvers
Art Deco apartment building designed in 1935 by the architect Gustave Fierens for Arthur Warmenbol, a cheese merchant, who housed his business and his private home in it.
Immeuble de bureaux Ruys & Co — Anvers
Office building in a moderate Art Deco style, built after a 1920 design by the architect Willie Pijl (façade inscription) for the shipbroking and forwarding firm Ruys & Co, as an e
Immeuble à appartements Van Broekhoven — Anvers
Corner apartment building in the Art Deco style, built for A.
Immeuble Leroy-Bossuwé, Suikerrui 24 — Anvers
Apartment building with shops in the Art Deco style, built for A.
Immeuble Riga, Suikerrui 18 — Anvers
Apartment building with a shop in the Art Deco style, built for Julien Riga after a 1929 design by the architect Louis De Belder, based in Schoten.
Immeuble De Laet, Wijngaardstraat 23 — Anvers
Apartment building in the Art Deco style on the corner of Wijngaardstraat and Hoofdkerkstraat, built after a 1924 design by the architect Ferdinand Truyman for the bailiff Fr.
Chapelle et internat de l'École normale catholique — Anvers
Chapel and boarding school of the Catholic Teacher Training College (Katholieke Normaalschool), an Art Deco building erected for the Free Catholic Schools of the Deaneries of Antwe
Immeuble Zajdmann, Klapdorp 24 — Anvers
Apartment building in the Art Deco style, built after a 1928 design by the architect Joseph Ditvoorts for Joseph Zajdmann, a dealer in surplus goods of Russian-Polish Jewish origin who had settled in Antwerp in 1910.
Entrepôt B.M. Spiers & Son — Anvers
Warehouse in a sober, functional ("zakelijk") Art Deco style, designed in 1924 by the architect Jan Jacobs for the firm B.M.
Herbosch Building — Anvers
Office building in the Art Deco style on the corner of Van Meterenkaai and Sint-Pietersvliet, built after a 1925 design by the architect Louis Hamaide (date stone) for the shipowne
Commercial Building — Anvers
Art Deco commercial and office building, erected for Frans Daelemans of the lift company Liften Daelemans to a 1925 design by the architects Jan Vanhoenacker, John Van Beurden and
Translated from the French original.