Diongre du quartier maritime au quartier Albert

At the beginning of the 1920s, Joseph Diongre participated with other architects in the creation of several social housing complexes in what was then called the "Europe Quarter" (today the "Maritime Quarter"). Still belonging to the Logement Molenbeekois, some of these listed buildings, in which each architect was able to express their style while taking into account size and cost constraints, are now in need of profound renovation in a neighborhood that is itself changing with the development of the Tour & Taxis site. A little further on, in the territory of Jette, Joseph Diongre built a few private houses including one for his friend the poet Jef Mennekens in 1927: the Withuis, considered one of the most beautiful Art Déco achievements in the capital, a total work of art, marked by the geometric codes of modernism, for which Joseph Diongre had also designed the interior layout. A house whose restoration and renovation should soon begin.