Antwerp
Antwerp — from Jan Van Rijswijcklaan to Doornelei and Kardinaal Mercierlei
The route starts at the town mansion Ernest Nagels designed in 1935 for the industrialist Jan Van den Heuvel, at no. 4 Jan Van Rijswijcklaan, and passes along the Karel Oomsstraat, where Jan Vanhoenacker, John Van Beurden and Jos Smolderen designed the Van Linden-Verstraete building (1928). On the avenue follow a town house by the same architects (1928) and Raymond Ceurvorst’s Helsmoortel building (1923), at the corner of the Korte Lozanastraat, where Vincent Cols and Jules De Roeck designed six houses in 1931, three of them for themselves, between Art Deco and modernism. The route then reaches the Doornelei, then newly laid out: Benoit J. Dupont (1935) and Ferdinand Van Mierlo (1929) had buildings erected there on their own account, and Léon Heutz’s house (1927) was the first to be built in the street. Dupont also designed the two twin buildings on the Generaal Lemanstraat (1934). The route ends with Eduard Van Steenbergen’s Delagarde house (1927), with sculptures by Albert Poels, Edward Craeye’s Cammaert house (1928), in the protected urban site of the Kardinaal Mercierlei, and Jan Jacobs’s Van Loo house (1936).
12 stops · Duration 2h45 · Distance 1,5 km
Hôtel de maître Van den Heuvel — Anvers
Art Deco mansion built for the industrialist Jan Van den Heuvel, founder of the Ciments J.
Immeuble à appartements Van Linden-Verstraete — Anvers
Art Deco apartment building with business premises, built for Theo Van Linden-Verstraete, whose firm dealt in plate and window glass and ran an art-glass workshop, to a 1928 design
Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Jan Van Rijswijcklaan 23 — Anvers
Art Deco town house built for A. Pirenne to a 1928 design by the architects Jan Vanhoenacker, John Van Beurden and Jos Smolderen, partners from 1920 to around 1930; the inventory c
Immeuble Helsmoortel, Jan Van Rijswijcklaan 37 — Anvers
Apartment building in the Art Deco style on the corner of Jan Van Rijswijcklaan and Korte Lozanastraat, built after a 1923 design by the architect Raymond Ceurvorst for the stockbroker Arthur Helsmoortel.
Six maisons bourgeoises Art déco, Korte Lozanastraat 31-41 — Anvers
Group of six town houses in a matter-of-fact Art Deco style ("zakelijke art-decostijl"), built after a 1931 design by the architects Vincent Cols and Jules De Roeck; three were bui
Résidence Estoril — Anvers
Art Deco apartment building on the corner of the Doornelei and the Karel Oomsstraat, which the architect Benoit J.
Maison de rapport Van Mierlo, Doornelei 5 — Anvers
Art Deco apartment house that the architect Ferdinand Van Mierlo, whose name is inscribed on the façade, built on his own account to a 1929 design; an extra storey, applied for two
Maison de l'architecte Léon Heutz — Anvers
Town house in a sober Art Deco style that the architect Léon Heutz built for himself to a 1927 design; a first façade design was rejected on aesthetic grounds and its proportions were revised.
Résidence Generaal Leman — Anvers
Pair of Art Deco apartment buildings built for Séverin P.
Maison Delagarde — Anvers
Town house in the Art Deco style built for the sworn surveyor F.
Hôtel Cammaert, Kardinaal Mercierlei 15 — Anvers
Town house in the Art Deco style built for Fr.
Hôtel Van Loo, De Merodelei 8 — Anvers
Town house in the Art Deco style built for Mrs R.
Translated from the French original.