Namur

Namur — the Carmes district, a planned Art Deco neighbourhood

Created around 1930 on the grounds of former religious institutions, with streets laid out in 1928 and 1932, the Carmes district forms a homogeneous Art Deco ensemble: bow windows, coloured brick and floral cast-stone decoration by, among others, Émile Dickschen, René Collin, Édouard Frankinet and Jean Delooz.

5 stops · Duration 1h · Distance 0,5 km

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1. Immeubles du Crédit mutuel hypothécaire — quartier des Carmes

   Édouard Frankinet · 1929

   Two apartment buildings designed together in 1928-1929 by the architect Édouard Frankinet for the Crédit mutuel hypothécaire, whose initials “CMH” crown the façades.

2. Immeuble de la rue des Carmes — Jean Delooz

   Jean Delooz · 1933

   An apartment building with two shops, designed in 1933 by the architect Jean Delooz.

3. Immeuble Dickschen — quartier des Carmes

   Émile Dickschen · 1933

   An imposing apartment building that the architect Émile Dickschen erected in 1932-1933 on his own account, in partnership with Malvaux.

4. Immeuble Horman — quartier des Carmes

   Émile Dickschen & René Collin · 1928

   Built in 1928 by Émile Dickschen and René Collin on the site of the church of the Discalced Carmelite nuns (1755) — a section of its wall survives in the gable on the rue de Fer si

5. Immeuble Motte — quartier des Carmes

   Émile Dickschen & René Collin · 1928

   An apartment and shop building dated 1928, on the corner of rue de Fer and rue des Croisiers, the first street of the Carmes district, laid out that same year.

Translated from the French original.