Antwerp
Antwerp — from Zurenborg to Plantin en Moretuslei
The route starts at the Seidel house, one of Léon Stynen's very first works (1928), on the Thaliastraat. In Zurenborg, protected as an urban site since 1980, the Pretoriastraat, Uitbreidingstraat, Velodroomstraat and Generaal Van Merlenstraat bring together the rental houses of the Berchemsche Bouwhandel (1927), two Art Deco apartment buildings by Robert Soebert, from 1924 and 1925, and the Klecker house by the same architect (1928), the Petré house with shop (1924) and the house Alfons Van Braekel designed for himself in 1927. Via the Cuperusstraat and a rental house of 1932, the route reaches the Van den Nestlei, where Edward Van Not built an apartment building on his own account in 1927, and then Plantin en Moretuslei, with the apartment buildings by Paul and Gustave Wauters (1928) and Alphonse Pauwels (1931). Oriels, bow windows, white stone, bluestone or red brick and wrought iron recur from one façade to the next.
12 stops · Duration 3h15 · Distance 3,5 km
Maison Seidel, Thaliastraat 10 — Anvers
Multi-family house built for Floris Seidel after a 1927 design by the architect Léon Stynen and, according to the permit file, erected in 1928.
Maisons de rapport de la Berchemsche Bouwhandel, Pretoriastraat 78-80 — Anvers
Pair of Art Deco multi-family houses, designed in 1927 for the limited company Berchemsche Bouwhandel by the architect Charles Wuyts, the company's in-house architect.
Immeuble à appartements Art déco, Uitbreidingstraat 566 — Anvers
Designed in 1924 by the architect Robert Soebert for Suzanne Klecker, this apartment building is in the Art Deco style.
Appartements Art déco Berchem
An apartment building designed in 1925 in the Art Deco style by the architect Robert Soebert for Willem De Vries, an Antwerp diamond dealer.
Maison Petré avec magasin, Velodroomstraat 27 — Anvers
Art Deco house with a warehouse, designed in 1924 by the architect E.A.
Maison Klecker, Velodroomstraat 36 — Anvers
Art Deco house designed in 1928 by the architect Robert Soebert for Suzanne Klecker, who moved in in January 1929; in 1924 Soebert had already built an apartment building for her in the Uitbreidingstraat.
Maison de l'architecte Alfons Van Braekel — Anvers
In 1927 the architect Alfons Van Braekel designed a house for himself in Zurenborg, in a restrained Art Deco style.
Maison de rapport Vrancken, Cuperusstraat 39 — Anvers
Multi-family house in a moderate Art Deco style, built for Henri Vrancken to a design by the master builder ("bouwmeester") August Vochten of Merksem; the building files date from 1932.
Maison de rapport Van Uffelen, Van den Nestlei 8 — Anvers
Multi-family house in a restrained Art Deco style, built for Jacques Van Uffelen to a design by the architect E.
Immeuble à appartements Art déco, Van den Nestlei 19 — Anvers
Art Deco apartment building that the architect Edward Van Not built on his own account to a 1927 design; it was his second property investment in this block, after the "Résidence Plantin" of 1922.
Immeuble à appartements Art déco, Plantin en Moretuslei 157 — Anvers
Building of ten modest rental flats in a sober Art Deco style, built in Borgerhout for Constant Gillis to a 1928 design by the architects Paul and Gustave Wauters (Gebroeders Wauters).
Immeuble à appartements Pauwels — Anvers
Art Deco apartment building constructed for Marg.
Translated from the French original.