Province d’Anvers

Province of Antwerp — from the Boerentoren to Mechelen

From the Boerentoren (1928-1931), Antwerp's tower of shops, offices and apartments, to the Roma cinema in Borgerhout, the Institute of Tropical Medicine and the houses of Mechelen, the province of Antwerp offers an Art Deco that is by turns monumental and domestic.

5 stops · Duration half day · Distance multi-communes

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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. Woonhuis Art déco Jef Huygh — Mechelen

   Jef Huygh · 1925

   A bourgeois house in the Art Deco style, around 1925, by Jef Huygh.

5. Villa des Glycines — Malines

   L. Poplemon · 1935

   Detached Art Deco villa of two bays and two to three storeys, dating from around 1935 and signed by the architect L.

Translated from the French original.