Ghent

Streamline style around the Rijsenbergstraat in Ghent

Around the Rijsenbergstraat in Ghent, this short route brings together façades from 1935 to 1939 with rounded bay windows. André Claessens’s Velghe house (1936), listed in 2019, draws on the streamline style, which the Flemish inventory regards as a late form of Art Deco; it is followed by H. Van Laere’s house (1935), which the inventory classes as modernism, Emile De Nil’s Haelterman apartment building (1939), in the streamline style, and two neighbouring houses by Ernest Snoeck (1937) on the Sportstraat, with tubular balcony railings.

5 stops · Duration 1h15 · Distance 1 km

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1. Maison Velghe — Gand

   André Claessens · 1936

   House designed in 1936 by the architect André Claessens for Pierre Velghe, a wholesaler of building materials who was also active in shipping; the permit, applied for on 1 May 1936, was granted on 18 May.

2. Maison Rijsenbergstraat 4 — Gand

   H. Van Laere · 1935

   A terraced house of three storeys and two bays under a flat roof, with a basement, built in Ghent on a 1935 building application to designs by the Ghent architect H.

3. Immeuble à appartements Haelterman, Rijsenbergstraat — Gand

   Emile De Nil · 1939

   Art Deco apartment building in the ocean-liner or streamline style, built under a 1939 permit application to designs by the Ghent architect Emile De Nil, for Raymond Haelterman.

4. Maison Art déco Ernest Snoeck, Sportstraat 396 — Gand

   Ernest Snoeck · 1937

   Art Deco terraced house of three storeys under a flat roof, signed "Er.

5. Maison Art déco, Sportstraat 398 — Gand

   Ernest Snoeck · 1937

   A three-storey town house with a flat roof, built according to the 1937 building application and signed by the building designer ("bouwkundige") Ernest Snoeck of Sint-Amandsberg on a faience tile to the left of the door.

Translated from the French original.