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Forest — from the former Baths to Avenue Everard
From Charles Rifflart’s school complex and former Forest Baths, opened between 1934 and 1947, to the apartment building on Avenue Everard designed in 1925 by Joseph Diongre, this walk links Art Deco schools, a stadium, a church, houses and apartment buildings in Forest. Along the way are Albert Callewaert’s Joseph Marien stadium, a house by Joseph Vanderstraeten within an Art Deco row on Avenue Massenet, the reinforced-concrete Saint-Augustin church by Léon Guiannotte and André Watteyne, and Armand de Saulnier’s Palais de l’Altitude 100.
9 stops · Duration 2h30 · Distance 3 km
Écoles communales nos 9 et 10 et anciens Bains de Forest
School complex and swimming pool in the Art Deco style designed by the architect Charles Rifflart for the municipality of Forest, approved by the municipal council in 1930 and buil
Ancienne école maternelle et primaire communale n° 6, aujourd’hui Les Bruyères
School complex inspired by Art Deco, designed in 1933 by the architect Henri Jacobs (son).
Maison bourgeoise, avenue Massenet 8
Art Deco town house on a through plot, designed in 1931 by the architect Joseph Vanderstraeten; it forms part of a homogeneous row of buildings in the same style mostly built by the same architect between 1931 and 1938.
Stade Joseph Marien
Stadium of Royal Union Saint-Gilloise, in the Duden park, designed by the architect Albert Callewaert (plans of 1922, with his name inscribed on the façade).
Maison bourgeoise, avenue Jupiter 113
Art Deco town house signed and dated 1931 on its plinth by the architect François Van Meulecom.
Maison et atelier de photographe, rue Timmermans 67
An Art Deco town house signed on the plinth by the architect Charles Dewys and dated 1928, built for Armand Vande Wouwer with a photography studio on the ground floor and in the mansard.
Le Palais de l’Altitude 100
A uniform group of three Art Deco apartment buildings designed in 1935 for the firm Alexandre Bertrand & Consorts by the architect Armand de Saulnier and the contractor Fernand May
Église Saint-Augustin de Forest
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.
Immeuble à appartements, avenue Everard 55-57
Art Deco apartment building designed in 1925 by the architect Joseph Diongre for the contractor J.
Translated from the French original.