Liège

Liège — from Rue des Buissons to Rue Sainte-Marie

From Rue des Buissons to Rue Sainte-Marie, this Liège route brings together Art Deco buildings, or modernist ones tinged with Art Deco, built from 1930 to 1946: Urbain Roloux’s house for Mr Lovrix (1935), the Union Coopérative shop, H. Havill Stanley’s Methodist Church of the Redemption, a house by Marcel Chabot on Place du Congrès, the social housing of La Maison liégeoise on Rue d’Amercoeur, the rows of houses on Avenue de Péville in Grivegnée, most of them signed by the architect J. André (1935), then apartment buildings on Rue Basse-Wez, Place d’Italie and Quai de Rome, the last two with reinforced-concrete frames, thirteen and eleven storeys high. It ends at Paul Petit’s house on Rue Sainte-Marie (1932).

10 stops · Duration 4h · Distance 9,5 km

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1. Maison Lovrix, rue des Buissons 59 — Liège

   Urbain Roloux · 1935

   This modernist house with a touch of Art Deco was built in 1935 to plans by the architect Urbain Roloux for Mr Lovrix, director of the Brasserie des Alliés in Marcinelle.

2. Magasin de l'Union Coopérative, place Vivegnis 6-8 — Liège

   Inconnu · 1933

   An Art Deco building erected in 1932-1933 for the Liège branch of the Union Coopérative, housing a shop, storeroom, butcher's and meeting hall.

3. Église de la Rédemption (temple méthodiste)

   H. Havill Stanley · 1930

   A Protestant church in a modernist style tinged with Art Deco, built in 1930 for the Mission Méthodiste Évangélique to plans by the pastor-architect H.

4. Maison, place du Congrès 4

   Marcel Chabot · 1933

   An Art Deco house built in 1933 to plans by the architect Marcel Chabot.

5. Logements sociaux de La Maison liégeoise, rue d'Amercoeur

   Melchior Jeurgen · 1930

   A social housing building in the Art Deco style, erected by the architect Melchior Jeurgen for the cooperative society "La Maison liégeoise" and dated 1930.

6. Alignements de maisons, avenue de Péville 194-202 et 205-215 — Grivegnée (Liège)

   J. André, Poncelet (n° 215) · 1935

   On either side of the Avenue de Péville stand rows of terraced houses set slightly back from the street, built in 1935.

7. Immeuble à appartements, rue Basse-Wez 341-345

   Paul Petit & Js. Petit · 1946

   An apartment building in a modernist style tinged with Art Deco, signed by the architects Pl.

8. Immeuble Place d'Italie (Division Horizontale de la Propriété)

   Camille Damman · 1937

   An apartment building designed in 1937 for the company "La Division Horizontale de la Propriété", at the corner of rue du Parc and rue Renoz, in line with the Pont Albert Ier.

9. Immeuble d'angle, quai de Rome 1

   Louis Rahier · 1939

   An Art Deco corner apartment building, constructed from 1937 to 1939 to plans by L.

10. Maison, rue Sainte-Marie 10 — Liège

    Paul Petit · 1932

    This house was built in 1932 to plans by the architect Paul Petit.

Translated from the French original.