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Brussels — Art Deco from Uccle to Laeken

This route links five Art Deco buildings in the Region, from Uccle to Laeken: the 1928 Villa van Buuren and its Art Deco interior, the reinforced-concrete Saint-Augustin church in Forest by Léon Guiannotte and André Watteyne, the Victor Boin swimming pool in Saint-Gilles, remodelled in 1938-1940 by Richard Ingelbrecht, G.J. Maugue’s former Au Bon Marché department store and Henry Lacoste’s Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation.

5 stops · Duration full day · Distance 13 km · public transport

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1. Villa van Buuren

   Léon Govaerts & Alexandre Van Vaerenbergh · 1928

   A villa built between 1924 and 1928 by the architects Léon Govaerts and Alexandre Van Vaerenbergh for the banker David van Buuren.

2. Église Saint-Augustin de Forest

   Léon Guiannotte & André Watteyne · 1935

   Parish church in Forest built of reinforced concrete by Léon Guiannotte and André Watteyne between 1933 and 1935, in an Art Deco style with modernist touches.

3. Piscine Victor Boin

   Richard Ingelbrecht · 1940

   Swimming baths built on the corner of Rue du Fort to designs by the architects Cooreman and Jules Rau and opened in 1905, then entirely remodelled in the Art Deco style between 193

4. Ancien grand magasin « Au Bon Marché »

   G.J. Maugue · 1930

   Department store built in the Art Deco style in 1928-1930 to plans by the Parisian architect G.J.

5. Fondation médicale Reine Élisabeth

   Henry Lacoste & Lucien De Vestel · 1930

   Building of the Queen Elisabeth Medical Foundation, a medical research institute founded in 1926 by Queen Elisabeth with the physiologist Pierre Nolf, built by Henry Lacoste betwee

Translated from the French original.