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De style art déco (style « paquebot »), il a été construit sur les plans de l'architecte perpignanais Léon Baille (1862-1951) entre 1928 et 1932 afin de permettre aux touristes devant attendre le changement d'essieux de leur train de passer la nuit. Il comprenait une salle de restaurant, une salle de cinéma et son bar, une scène de théâtre à l'italienne et un court de tennis sur le toit. Construit en ciment armé, il est restauré progressivement après avoir atteint un état de délabrement avancé.
The Art Deco Woad Corner cafe and Shell filling station under superb blue skies during the Goodwood Revival Meeting historic motorsport event, Goodwood, near Chichester, West Sussex, England. Taken on September 21, 2008.
Thomas Jefferson High School, LAUSD. 1319 East 41st Street, Los Angeles. Central-Alameda neighborhood.
The Streamlined Moderne buildings were designed by Architect Stiles O. Clements and construction was completed in 1935.
c. 1940
The company's founder designed this distinctive industrial plant with the assistance of architect Lenard Gabert. The family-owned custom woodworking and furniture manufacturer still occupies this well-maintained building.
The De Luxe Theater opened in April of 1941. It is listed as an African-American movie theater. The De Luxe Theater closed as a movie theater in 1969. It was used as an art gallery in the 1970's.
Wheaton, MD. WJSV/WTOP Transmitting Station.
Architect: E. Burton Corning (1940). A year after it was built, the project was featured in Architectural Record.
The Tower Bridge is a vertical lift bridge (middle section elevates) across the Sacramento River, linking West Sacramento with Sacramento, the capital of California.
The bridge style represents a rare use of Streamline Moderne in a lift bridge. The Tower Bridge was the first vertical lift bridge in the California Highway System, it was formally accepted by the state in 1936. In 1982, the Tower Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
For years, the bridge was painted silver but people complained about glare off the bridge. The concrete pylons were initially painted a sky-blue color. In June 1976 as part of Bicentennial projects, it was painted a yellow-ochre color to match the gold leafed cupola of the nearby State Capitol. In 2001, residents voted on a new color scheme. The winning choice was all gold; it was repainted in 2002. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Bridge_(Sacramento,_California)
Fujifilm X-S10. Fujinon XF 10-24mm f/4 R OIS. 21mm, f/8, 1/500 sec, ISO 320.
Inspired by the train-car type stainless steel diners of the New York metropolitan area, this model was designed with a combination of Streamline Moderne (late Art Deco) styles prevalent in the three decades following the Wall Street Crash.
The Metropolitan club
A 1930's club inspired by the Art-Deco and streamline period. Maybe even a touch of decopunk in there too!
I had wanted to do a bar/nightspot after my last one in 2010 so I was keen to incorporate some newer techniques and colours I had acquired since then and try and work on a mainly black facade which I seldom use.
I took a little inspiration from the recent modular hotel built at an angle and wanted to see if I could do something similar here. Can't hide all the wedge plates but gives me some thought for how to do future models rather than always a standard box.
A period interior and van completes the scene.
Regards!
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i had to do a bit of cloning and posterizing to clean up the tiles on this great old building which, sadly, is beginning to deteriorate/
lakeshore avenue
oakland, california
Architects: JTP, 2003. Residential development on a former builder's yard, next to the Regent's Canal. This is a separate part with a street frontage on Royal College Street. The blue-painted dwelling dates from C19 and is Grade II listed. London Borough of Camden.
(CC BY-NC-ND - credit: Images George Rex)
The Sontag Drug Building, at 5401 Wilshire Blvd. The 1936 Streamline Moderne building in the Los Angeles Miracle Mile district was designed by the firm Norstrom and Anderson.
De style art déco (style « paquebot »), il a été construit sur les plans de l'architecte perpignanais Léon Baille (1862-1951) entre 1928 et 1932 afin de permettre aux touristes devant attendre le changement d'essieux de leur train de passer la nuit. Il comprenait une salle de restaurant, une salle de cinéma et son bar, une scène de théâtre à l'italienne et un court de tennis sur le toit. Construit en ciment armé, il est restauré progressivement après avoir atteint un état de délabrement avancé.
I love prime lenses, and I normally lean towards the telephoto end, so it was quite a shock to the system to use a wide angle zoom the other day in Worthing. I've had the lens for years, but rarely used it. It's probably not something I'll do very often, but it was certainly interesting to view the world in a different way.
De style art déco (style « paquebot »), il a été construit sur les plans de l'architecte perpignanais Léon Baille (1862-1951) entre 1928 et 1932 afin de permettre aux touristes devant attendre le changement d'essieux de leur train de passer la nuit. Il comprenait une salle de restaurant, une salle de cinéma et son bar, une scène de théâtre à l'italienne et un court de tennis sur le toit. Construit en ciment armé, il est restauré progressivement après avoir atteint un état de délabrement avancé.
January 12, 2012
SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY
The Palm Beach County Cultural Council, the official arts agency serving non-profit cultural organizations and professional artists throughout the county, has announced the schedule for its grand opening week in the council’s new home in downtown Lake Worth.
In December 2011, the council moved into the historic Robert M. Montgomery Jr. Building at 601 Lake Ave. The building first opened in 1940 as the Lake Worth Theater and later housed three different art museums, but has been closed to the public since 2005.
Scheduled to reopen to the public on Jan. 19 2012, the newly renovated building will serve as the cultural council’s headquarters. The building’s 11,000 square feet will include galleries for community exhibitions, an artist resource center, tourism services, education and training facilities, as well as meeting space.
“It is critically important for the umbrella organization for art and culture in Palm Beach County to have a hub,” Cultural Council Board Chairman Michael J. Bracci said in a written statement. “The building will help people understand the importance of art and culture to our quality of life. It provides a place for the cultural community as well as our residents and visitors to gather and find information. It is also vitally important to the strategic goals of the cultural council. We couldn’t be more pleased.”
Named after the late Robert M. Montgomery Jr., a prominent attorney and philanthropist, the building was renovated with assistance from the Lake Worth Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), which committed $700,000 for the project. The CRA’s grant is part of its larger Cultural Renaissance Program, focusing on redevelopment through the establishment of artists, cultural centers, and institutes within Lake Worth while expanding the economic base and improving the investment image of the area.
When the Montgomery family donated the classic building to the cultural council in January 2010, it was the largest single donation in the council’s 33-year history.
“I am extremely proud to make this gift in honor of Bob’s memory, and the legacy he built in the legal, cultural, and philanthropic communities,” said Mary Montgomery, when she donated the building last January. “Giving this historic building to the cultural council will strengthen Bob’s vision of a healthy cultural foundation developing better students, better citizens, and a better community.”
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
palmbeach.floridaweekly.com/articles/cultural-council-ope...
www.palmbeachpost.com/article/20120119/ENTERTAINMENT/8120...
issuu.com/passportpublications/docs/robert_montgomery_bui...
January 12, 2012
SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY
The Palm Beach County Cultural Council, the official arts agency serving non-profit cultural organizations and professional artists throughout the county, has announced the schedule for its grand opening week in the council’s new home in downtown Lake Worth.
In December 2011, the council moved into the historic Robert M. Montgomery Jr. Building at 601 Lake Ave. The building first opened in 1940 as the Lake Worth Theater and later housed three different art museums, but has been closed to the public since 2005.
Scheduled to reopen to the public on Jan. 19 2012, the newly renovated building will serve as the cultural council’s headquarters. The building’s 11,000 square feet will include galleries for community exhibitions, an artist resource center, tourism services, education and training facilities, as well as meeting space.
“It is critically important for the umbrella organization for art and culture in Palm Beach County to have a hub,” Cultural Council Board Chairman Michael J. Bracci said in a written statement. “The building will help people understand the importance of art and culture to our quality of life. It provides a place for the cultural community as well as our residents and visitors to gather and find information. It is also vitally important to the strategic goals of the cultural council. We couldn’t be more pleased.”
Named after the late Robert M. Montgomery Jr., a prominent attorney and philanthropist, the building was renovated with assistance from the Lake Worth Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), which committed $700,000 for the project. The CRA’s grant is part of its larger Cultural Renaissance Program, focusing on redevelopment through the establishment of artists, cultural centers and institutes within Lake Worth, while expanding the economic base and improving the investment image of the area.
When the Montgomery family donated the classic building to the cultural council in January 2010, it was the largest single donation in the council’s 33-year history.
“I am extremely proud to make this gift in honor of Bob’s memory, and the legacy he built in the legal, cultural and philanthropic communities,” said Mary Montgomery, when she donated the building last January. “Giving this historic building to the cultural council will strengthen Bob’s vision of a healthy cultural foundation developing better students, better citizens and a better community.”
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
palmbeach.floridaweekly.com/articles/cultural-council-ope...
www.palmbeachpost.com/article/20120119/ENTERTAINMENT/8120...
issuu.com/passportpublications/docs/robert_montgomery_bui...
A sign outside this bldg. says it is the Juvenile Court Center. It looked to me like a large cruise ship, so it must be Streamline Moderne, but I have nothing to base that on other than theory.
February snow squall in deserted downtown Sault Ste. Marie.
The concrete Memorial Tower, featuring a lighted red beacon, was built as part of the Memorial Gardens Arena--a memorial dedicated to local soldiers who perished in World War ll. The Gardens and Tower were built in the Streamline Moderne architectural style, and opened in 1949.
In 2006, the Memorial Gardens Arena was demolished and replaced with the new Steelback / Essar Centre Arena- -home to the OHL Soo Greyhounds hockey team. The Memorial Tower was refurbished and retained as a war memorial.
Originally opened in 1921, the 500-seat Seminole on Krome Avenue was built for Henry Booker, Sr. and James Washington English for movies and live entertainment. The theater was heavily damaged in a 1940 fire, leaving little more than a blackened shell.
Prolific theater architect Roy A. Benjamin was hired to rebuild the Seminole, which he designed in Streamline Moderne style. The cost of the movie theater's reconstruction was around $50,000. It reopened in the fall of 1940. In addition to movies, the Seminole continued to host live entertainment, as well as beauty contests and cooking demonstrations. In the early 1970s, the Seminole has renamed the Premier Theatre and began to show Spanish-language movies. It closed in 1979 due to declining attendance.
For years, the theater sat vacantly and fell into disrepair. In 1992, when Hurricane Andrew hit the Homestead area, the Seminole was not spared, and though its walls stood, the roof was torn off and the theater's interior suffered serious damage. In 1993, the Seminole Theater's owners donated the battered theater to the city, which designed it a local historic site two years later, the sole remaining example of Art Moderne style in all Dade County.
The Seminole Theater Group was organized in 1997 with the intention of restoring the theater as a performing arts venue serving the Homestead and Dade County region. It is expected to cost about $4.2 million to bring the old Seminole back to life. The Seminole Theatre was reopened on October 28, 2015.
William B Medellin Architect P.A. as the historic preservation consultant for the project was responsible for the restoration of the historic facades, including the re-painting of the exterior walls to match the original historic colors; re-installation of missing historic elements such as the historic “Starburst” fretwork over the transom entrance doors and the historic travertine wainscot using historic salvaged travertine found at the Theater’s storage room. The interior lobby stairs and railings were the only original historic interior elements remaining in the building.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Historic_Downtown_District
seminoletheatre.org/about/seminole-theatre-history
wbmarchitect.com/portfolio-posts/the-seminole-theater/
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West Side Highway, NYC (357 West Street)
10/2009 - Replaced with better resolution scan of the original negative
De style art déco (style « paquebot »), il a été construit sur les plans de l'architecte perpignanais Léon Baille (1862-1951) entre 1928 et 1932 afin de permettre aux touristes devant attendre le changement d'essieux de leur train de passer la nuit. Il comprenait une salle de restaurant, une salle de cinéma et son bar, une scène de théâtre à l'italienne et un court de tennis sur le toit. Construit en ciment armé, il est restauré progressivement après avoir atteint un état de délabrement avancé.
I found it and would love to know how to buy it and bring it back to its 1940 glory - These are my favorite photos from Brunswick, GA!:>)!:>)!
Build Completion: December 23, 1938
Architects:
Samuel Wood Hamill, William Templeton Johnson, Richard Requa, Louis John Gill
The Metropolitan club
A 1930's club inspired by the Art-Deco and streamline period. Maybe even a touch of decopunk in there too!
I had wanted to do a bar/nightspot after my last one in 2010 so I was keen to incorporate some newer techniques and colours I had acquired since then and try and work on a mainly black facade which I seldom use.
I took a little inspiration from the recent modular hotel built at an angle and wanted to see if I could do something similar here. Can't hide all the wedge plates but gives me some thought for how to do future models rather than always a standard box.
A period interior and van completes the scene.
Regards!
South Beach, also nicknamed SoBe, is a neighborhood in the city of Miami Beach, Florida, United States, located due east of Miami city proper between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The area encompasses Miami Beach south of Dade Boulevard.
This area was the first section of Miami Beach to be developed, starting in the 1910s, due to the development efforts of Carl G. Fisher, the Lummus Brothers, and John S. Collins, the latter of whose construction of the Collins Bridge provided the first vital land link between mainland Miami and the beaches.
The area has gone through numerous artificial and natural changes over the years, including a booming regional economy, increased tourism, and the 1926 hurricane, which destroyed much of the area. As of 2010, 39,186 people lived in South Beach.
South Beach started as farmland. In 1870, Henry and Charles Lum purchased 165 acres (67 ha) for coconut farming. Charles Lum built the first house on the beach in 1886. In 1894, the Lum brothers left the island, leaving control of the plantation to John Collins, who came to South Beach two years later to survey the land. He used the land for farming purposes, discovering fresh water, and extending his parcel from 14th Street to 67th in 1907.
In 1912, Miami businessmen the Lummus Brothers acquired 400 acres (160 ha) of Collins' land in an effort to build an oceanfront city of modest single-family residences. In 1913 Collins started construction of a bridge from Miami to Miami Beach. Although some local residents invested in the bridge, Collins ran short of money before he could complete it.
Carl G. Fisher, a successful entrepreneur who made millions in 1909 after selling a business to Union Carbide, came to the beach in 1913. His vision was to establish South Beach as a successful city independent of Miami. This was the same year that the restaurant Joe's Stone Crab opened. Fisher loaned $50,000 to Collins for his bridge, which was completed in June 1913. The Collins Bridge was later replaced by the Venetian Causeway.
On March 26, 1915, Collins, Lummus, and Fisher consolidated their efforts and incorporated the Town of Miami Beach. In 1920 the County Causeway (renamed MacArthur Causeway in 1942 was completed. The Lummus brothers sold their oceanfront property, between 6th and 14th Streets, to the city. To this day, this area is known as Lummus Park.
In 1920, the Miami Beach land boom began. South Beach's main streets (5th Street, Alton Road, Collins Avenue, Washington Avenue, and Ocean Drive) were all suitable for automobile traffic. The population was growing in the 1920s, and several millionaires such as Harvey Firestone, J.C. Penney, Harry C. Stutz, Albert Champion, Frank Seiberling, and Rockwell LaGorce built homes on Miami Beach. President Warren G. Harding stayed at the Flamingo Hotel during this time, increasing interest in the area.
In the 1930s, an architectural revolution came to South Beach, bringing Art Deco, Streamline Moderne, and Nautical Moderne architecture to the Beach. South Beach claims to be the world's largest collection of Streamline Moderne Art Deco architecture. Napier, New Zealand, another notable Art Deco city, is architecturally comparable to Miami Beach as it was rebuilt in the Ziggurat Art Deco style after being destroyed by an earthquake in 1931.
By 1940, the beach had a population of 28,000. After the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the Army Air Corps took command over Miami Beach.[citation needed] That year, tourism brought almost two million people to South Beach.
In 1964, South Beach became even more famous when Jackie Gleason brought his weekly variety series, The Jackie Gleason Show to the area for taping, a rarity in the industry. Beginning in the mid-1960s and continuing through the 1980s, South Beach was used as a retirement community with most of its ocean-front hotels and apartment buildings filled with elderly people living on small, fixed incomes. This period also saw the introduction of the "cocaine cowboys," drug dealers who used the area as a base for their illicit drug activities. Scarface, released in 1983, typifies this activity. In addition, the television show Miami Vice used South Beach as a backdrop for much of its filming. A somewhat recurring theme of early Miami Vice episodes was thugs and drug addicts barricading themselves in run-down or empty buildings. Only minor alterations had to be made for these scenes because some buildings in South Beach were in poor condition at the time.
While many of the unique Art Deco buildings, such as the New Yorker Hotel, were lost to developers in the years before 1980, the area was saved as a cohesive unit by Barbara Baer Capitman and a group of activists who spearheaded the movement to place almost one square mile of South Beach on the National Register of Historic Places. The Miami Beach Architectural District was designated in 1979.
Before the days of Miami Vice, South Beach was considered a very poor area with a very high rate of crime. Today, it is considered one of the wealthiest and most prosperous commercial areas on the beach. Despite this, poverty and crime still exist in some isolated places surrounding the area.
In 2009, Natalie O'Neill of the Miami New Times said, "Until the 1980s, Miami Beach was a peculiar mix of criminals, Cubans, and little old ladies. Then the beautiful people moved in." In the late 1980s, a renaissance began in South Beach, with an influx of fashion industry professionals moving into the area. In 1989, Irene Marie purchased the Sun Ray Apartments (captured in the chainsaw scene in Scarface) located on Ocean Drive and opened Irene Marie Models.
Thomas Kramer is credited with starting the construction boom in South Beach, driving the gentrification of the area. It is now a popular living destination for the wealthy. Condominium units in the upscale high rises sell for millions. There are a number of vocal critics of the developments. The high-rise and high-density buildings are derided as a "concrete jungle". However, even critics concede that the development has changed the area into a pedestrian-friendly, low-crime neighborhood.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Beach
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January 12, 2012
SPECIAL TO FLORIDA WEEKLY
The Palm Beach County Cultural Council, the official arts agency serving non-profit cultural organizations and professional artists throughout the county, has announced the schedule for its grand opening week in the council’s new home in downtown Lake Worth.
In December 2011, the council moved into the historic Robert M. Montgomery Jr. Building at 601 Lake Ave. The building first opened in 1940 as the Lake Worth Theater and later housed three different art museums, but has been closed to the public since 2005.
Scheduled to reopen to the public on Jan. 19 2012, the newly renovated building will serve as the cultural council’s headquarters. The building’s 11,000 square feet will include galleries for community exhibitions, an artist resource center, tourism services, education and training facilities, as well as meeting space.
“It is critically important for the umbrella organization for art and culture in Palm Beach County to have a hub,” Cultural Council Board Chairman Michael J. Bracci said in a written statement. “The building will help people understand the importance of art and culture to our quality of life. It provides a place for the cultural community as well as our residents and visitors to gather and find information. It is also vitally important to the strategic goals of the cultural council. We couldn’t be more pleased.”
Named after the late Robert M. Montgomery Jr., a prominent attorney and philanthropist, the building was renovated with assistance from the Lake Worth Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), which committed $700,000 for the project. The CRA’s grant is part of its larger Cultural Renaissance Program, focusing on redevelopment through the establishment of artists, cultural centers and institutes within Lake Worth, while expanding the economic base and improving the investment image of the area.
When the Montgomery family donated the classic building to the cultural council in January 2010, it was the largest single donation in the council’s 33-year history.
“I am extremely proud to make this gift in honor of Bob’s memory, and the legacy he built in the legal, cultural and philanthropic communities,” said Mary Montgomery, when she donated the building last January. “Giving this historic building to the cultural council will strengthen Bob’s vision of a healthy cultural foundation developing better students, better citizens and a better community.”
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
palmbeach.floridaweekly.com/articles/cultural-council-ope...
www.palmbeachpost.com/article/20120119/ENTERTAINMENT/8120...
issuu.com/passportpublications/docs/robert_montgomery_bui...