Brussels

Ixelles and Uccle — villas and apartment buildings around avenue Molière

In the residential districts of southern Brussels, Art Deco turns domestic: Antoine Courtens’ Haerens town house, the van Buuren villa and gardens, apartment buildings on avenue Molière and Camille Damman’s church on place Brugmann.

5 stops · Duration 1h30 · Distance 2 km

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1. Hôtel Haerens

   Antoine Courtens · 1928

   An Art Deco town house, listed in 1988, one of Antoine Courtens's two most significant works in Brussels along with the Palais de la Folle Chanson, which he was designing in the same year (1928).

2. Musée & Jardins van Buuren

   Léon Govaerts & Alexandre Van Vaerenbergh · 1928

   An Art Deco villa built in 1928 by the architects Léon Govaerts and Alexandre Van Vaerenbergh for the banker David van Buuren.

3. Avenue Molière 269 — Portail aux hiboux

   Jean-Baptiste Dewin · 1922

   A building at 269-271 avenue Molière, signed and dated 1922 by Jean-Baptiste Dewin.

4. Immeuble Ramaekers (avenue Molière)

   Joe Ramaekers · 1930

   Remarkable corner apartment building at Avenue Molière 208-210 in Ixelles, designed in 1930 by the architect Joe Ramaekers.

5. Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation d'Ixelles

   Camille Damman · 1934

   Church by Camille Damman built from 1932 to 1934, which the regional inventory classes as Art Deco and Neo-Romanesque.

Translated from the French original.