
Boerentoren
Emiel Van Averbeke, Jan Vanhoenacker,Jos Smolderen
Antwerp, Schoenmarkt 35
1929 – 1931
Boerentoren (Farmer’s Tower)
High
Steel
The building consists of a steel skeleton on a foundation of reinforced concrete (2 meters thick under the tower and 1 meter thick under the side wings). The finish consists of white limestone. 3400 tonnes of steel were used with 430,000 rivets.
Panorama
At the top, on the 25th floor, a water basin is integrated with a capacity of 230 m³ and it’s completely covered with copper. Below is a panorama room, opened in 1932. 3 francs was the entrance fee. After the restoration of the 1970s, a new panorama room was opened above the reservoir and that room is only open for special occasions.
Not only a bank
Boerentoren
Emiel Van Averbeke, Jan Vanhoenacker,Jos Smolderen
Antwerp, Schoenmarkt 35
1929 – 1931
This article first appeared on my other site about architecture in and around Antwerp: archiplore.
