Antwerp

Antwerp Art Deco — from skyscraper to cinema

Antwerp has Art Deco buildings from the 1920s and 1930s: the Boerentoren (1928-1931), one of Europe's first tall towers, the Roma cinema, the Institute of Tropical Medicine, the Century Center and apartment buildings.

5 stops · Duration 3h · Distance 9,5 km

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1. Boerentoren (KBC Tower)

   Jan Vanhoenacker, Jos Smolderen, Emiel Van Averbeke · 1931

   A tower of shops, offices and apartments built in 1928-1931 for the Algemeene Bankvereeniging to plans by Jan Vanhoenacker, Jos Smolderen and Emiel Van Averbeke; at around 87 m, it

2. Cinéma Roma

   Alphonse Pauwels · 1927

   A cinema of 2,000 seats built in 1927 as a "performance hall with apartment floors" to plans by Alphonse Pauwels of Borgerhout.

3. Institut de Médecine Tropicale Prince Léopold

   Paul Le Bon & Marcel Spittael · 1933

   A sober Art Deco complex designed in 1925 by the architects Marcel Spittael and Paul Le Bon for the Province of Antwerp (competition of 1923) and inaugurated on 4 November 1933.

4. Century Center (ancien Century Hotel) — Anvers

   Jan Vanhoenacker, John Van Beurden, Vincent Cols & Jules De Roeck · 1929

   The former Century Hotel (nos. 60-62 De Keyserlei) of 1929, designed by Jan Vanhoenacker, John Van Beurden, Vincent Cols and Jules De Roeck: an Art Deco tower of fourteen storeys m

5. Immeubles Art déco Lange Kievitstraat

   Ernest Nagels · 1926

   A pair of Art Deco apartment buildings designed in 1926 by the architect Ernest Nagels, in reinforced concrete and five storeys high.

Translated from the French original.