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Boerentoren

historic office skyscraper in Antwerp, Belgium
Place Tower Block Q59487

Facts

16 properties

Designation

Instance of
tower block
Heritage designation
beschermd monument[13]

Location

Country
Belgium[3]
Location
District of Antwerp[9]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.219°, 4.404°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Antwerp[2]
Street address
Schoenmarkt 35[17]

Period and style

Inception
1932[10]
Architect
Jan Vanhoenacker, Joseph Smolderen, Emiel Van Averbeke[4][5][6]
Architectural style
Art Deco[8]
Height
+112.5[15]
More facts +5
Floors above ground
+26[11]
Movement
Art Deco[7]
Native label
Boerentoren[14]
Number of elevators
+15[12]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Architourist Guide[16]
🏷️ Also known as
en Boerentoren cs Torengebouw cs KBC Tower fa برج بویرن he בורנטורן nl KBC Tower nl KBC-toren pl KBC Tower pl Torengebouw ru Буренторен sv KBC-skrapan zh 农夫塔楼
🔖 Identifiers · 11
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Boerentoren1.jpg ↗
CTBUH Skyscraper Center building ID
5086
Emporis building ID
108999
Flemish Heritage Object ID
3959
Freebase ID
/m/027b7ln
OpenStreetMap way ID
40102689
PSS-archi ID
BE-11002-6283
SkyscraperPage building ID
1179
Structurae structure ID
20023363
WikiKids ID
Boerentoren
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Building", "KBCTower::9r9ck"]

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🔗 Connections
Architectural style 1
Art Deco
Country 1
Belgium
Instance of 1
tower block
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Antwerp
Location 1
District of Antwerp
Movement 1
Art Deco
← SNARC ID 1
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Summary

Boerentoren is a tower block[1].

Related Entities

Belgium

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be. inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be. inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Inventory of Immovable Heritage. id.erfgoed.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 29d ago · Pjtrib · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Belgium
    Heritage designation → beschermd monument
    Instance of → tower block
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → WikiProject Architourist Guide
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Architect: Jan Vanhoenacker, batch #290637"
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