Antwerp

Antwerp — from the Kattendijkdok to Leopoldplaats, via Tunnelplaats and Vestingstraat

This route starts on the west quay of the Kattendijkdok, at the pumping station of dry docks nos. 8 to 10 (1930), in an objective Art Deco style, by the engineer Léon Smits, which keeps three centrifugal pumps. On Tunnelplaats, Apollon Lagache’s EGEMA building (1938) has a corner rotunda; then come François Dens’s Saint-Antoine building and garage on the Paardenmarkt (1923) and the warehouse of the port ‘nation’ De Wolnatie on Rodestraat (1932). At the corner of the Italiëlei, the Vollen house, remodelled in 1927-1928 by Fernand Badoux, keeps its 1928 interior fittings, and Jos. Baeyens’s R.V.S. Building (1938) bears a relief of the logo of this life insurance company, now hidden by an illuminated sign. After Ferdinand Van Mierlo’s stone façade on the Kipdorpvest (1922), Vestingstraat brings together the Mendelson building and its diamond-cutting workshop (1928) and a shop of 1932 with blue and bright green tiles. The route ends on Leopoldplaats at Joseph Selis’s Electrolux building (1934), which the inventory record places between a “zakelijk” modernism and a streamlined Art Deco.

10 stops · Duration 3h · Distance 5 km

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1. Station de pompage des cales sèches 8 à 10 — Anvers

   Léon Smits (ingénieur) & SA d'Entreprises anciennement Dumon & Vander Vin (entrepreneur) · 1930

   Pumping station of the municipal dry docks nos.

2. Immeuble de commerce et de bureaux EGEMA — Anvers

   Apollon Lagache · 1938

   Commercial and office building in a sober, functional ("zakelijk") Art Deco style, built for the Société Anonyme EGEMA, an Antwerp port company handling and bunkering coal, to a 19

3. Immeuble et garage Saint-Antoine, Paardenmarkt 88 — Anvers

   François Dens · 1923

   Apartment building with a garage in the Art Deco style, built after a 1922-1923 design by the architect François Dens for Vermaut, Calluy & Daris, R.

4. Entrepôt De Wolnatie — Anvers

   Alfred De Leenheer · 1932

   Warehouse in a moderate Art Deco style, built after a 1931 design by the architect Alfred De Leenheer and completed in 1932 for the public limited company "De Wolnatie", one of the

5. Maison Vollen — Anvers

   Fernand Badoux · 1928

   Corner house between the Italiëlei and the Goudbloemstraat, the result of the thorough remodelling in 1927-1928 of an 1879 neoclassical house by the Brussels architect Fernand Bado

6. R.V.S. Building — Anvers

   Jos. Baeyens · 1938

   Art Deco apartment building designed in 1938 by the architect Jos.

7. Immeuble à appartements Art déco, Kipdorpvest 11 — Anvers

   Ferdinand Van Mierlo · 1922

   Apartment building whose Art Deco façade on the Kipdorpvest results from the extension and conversion, to a 1922 design by the architect Ferdinand Van Mierlo for the owner Eugène L

8. Immeuble Mendelson avec diamanterie — Anvers

   Albert Campioni · 1928

   Apartment building with shops, a diamond-cutting works and offices in the rear wing, built around 1928 for M.

9. Magasin Art déco, Vestingstraat 67 — Anvers

   Frans Meunier · 1932

   Shop with flats above, the result of the partial demolition and rebuilding of an existing shop-house, for which a file was submitted in 1932; the architect Frans Meunier drew up th

10. Immeuble commercial Electrolux — Anvers

    Joseph Selis · 1934

    Art Deco commercial building, built for the firm Davidis & Cie to a 1934 design by the architect Joseph Selis; the works were carried out by the contractor Spiessens-Van Nereaux of Deurne.

Translated from the French original.