Two houses by architect Snoeck
Address Sportstraat 398
City/Neighborhood Ghent
Style(s)
- Art Deco
- Streamline
Original use
- Habitat
Année 1937
Architect(s) and/or artist(s)
- Snoeck Ernest
Two very typical terraced houses in this quiet street in Ghent.
Both designed by architect Ernest Snoeck in 1937.
In Art Deco style with "steam liner" elements, although similar they have distinctive elements.
Number 398 in two bays is characterized on the right by its high window decorated with animal stained glass divided by a false flagpole.
Below this opening, a triangular projection which surmounts the entrance door framed by two cylindrical uprights in vertically laid bricks.
The door is also very typical with its small portholes.
The rest of the facade is rather classical.
The neighboring house also has two bays, the one on the right of which is very elaborate, with its successive portholes decorated with stained glass with geometric designs.
The right bay, a little busier, nevertheless takes up the same plan as its neighbor.
The architect chose bricks of different colors for the two houses! A very Belgian exception! Signature of the architect in a small ceramic plaque.
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