Jan Vanhoenacker
*7. 3. 1875 – Kortrijk, Belgium
†22. 11. 1958 – Antwerp, Belgium
Biography
Jean Robert Vanhoenacker had extensive experience prior to the proposal for the farmer's tower. Even before World War I, he had a number of completed projects to his credit, including a bank, a theater, a garden suburb, and several villas and department stores in Kortrijk, houses in Ostend, Antwerp, Roeselare, and Tielt, as well as country houses by the sea. Among his most significant works after World War I are the reconstruction of the town of Waasten, an asylum for the insane in Duffel, a bank in Kortrijk with several outbuildings, apartment buildings (together with architects Van Beurden and Smolderen), a brewery in Komen, etc. In Antwerp, notable projects include the Century Hotel, Savelkoul warehouses, the post office on Pelikaanstraat, the Diamond Exchange, and of course the Tower building.
Jean Robert Vanhoenacker had extensive experience prior to the proposal for the farmer's tower. Even before World War I, he had a number of completed projects to his credit, including a bank, a theater, a garden suburb, and several villas and department stores in Kortrijk, houses in Ostend, Antwerp, Roeselare, and Tielt, as well as country houses by the sea. Among his most significant works after World War I are the reconstruction of the town of Waasten, an asylum for the insane in Duffel, a bank in Kortrijk with several outbuildings, apartment buildings (together with architects Van Beurden and Smolderen), a brewery in Komen, etc. In Antwerp, notable projects include the Century Hotel, Savelkoul warehouses, the post office on Pelikaanstraat, the Diamond Exchange, and of course the Tower building.
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