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Forest — from the Joseph Marien stadium to Avenue Everard
From Albert Callewaert’s Joseph Marien stadium, completed in 1926 in Duden Park and adorned with bas-reliefs by Oscar De Clerck, to the two apartment buildings on Avenue Everard built for the contractor J. B. Surkyn by Joseph Diongre in 1925 and by Maurice Surkyn in 1928, this walk links an Art Deco stadium, a church, houses and apartment buildings in Forest. Along the way are a house by Joseph Vanderstraeten within an Art Deco row on Avenue Massenet, a house by François Van Meulecom on Avenue Jupiter, a house by Georges France on Rue de l’Escrime (1923), Charles Dewys’s house and photographer’s studio on Rue Timmermans, Armand de Saulnier’s Palais de l’Altitude 100 and the reinforced-concrete Saint-Augustin church by Léon Guiannotte and André Watteyne.
9 stops · Duration 2h15 · Distance 2 km
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 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.
Maison bourgeoise, avenue Jupiter 113
Art Deco town house signed and dated 1931 on its plinth by the architect François Van Meulecom.
Maison Art déco, rue de l'Escrime 32-34
Art Deco town house, signed on the plinth by the architect Georges France, 1923.
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.
Immeuble à appartements, avenue Everard 59
Art Deco apartment building constructed in 1928 by the architect Maurice Surkyn for the contractor J.
Translated from the French original.