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Whitesell Line's locomotive #1007 "The Ruby Runner"
Commissioned red version of my Tequila Sunrise locomotive #7244
Kia Ora is located at 449-453 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, 3004. It is on the east side of St. Kilda Road, half-way between Toorak and Commercial Roads.
Kia Ora was completed in 1936 in the style of Streamline Moderne. Kia Ora was commissioned by the Dixon family, who owned the "Kia Ora" cordial factory, and designed by architect Lewis Levy (1890-1970). When first built, they boasted wall panel hydronic heating, walk-in closets and modern kitchens.
Fawkner Park, one of Melbourne's larger inner city parks, graces the rear of Kia Ora, and the residents are fortunate to have a private gate to access the park.
This neat Art Deco cottage villa with wonderful red brick detailing may be found in the South Gippsland town of Leongatha.
Sitting neatly amid its pretty cottage garden, the cottage is quite small, but its detailing makes up for what it lacks in size with stylishness. The use of Fibro cement sheets to build the cottage suggests it was built in the late 1930s. Other giveaway signs are the neat cottage style windows which are typical of the "Metroland" suburban style which was common throughout Britain and her dominions in the interwar years. It is the brickwork on this cottage and its stained glass nook windows that are perhaps its most charming features. The rounded Streamline Moderne enclosed vestibule of red brick with simple banding, the matching red brick stepped chimney and the geometric Art Deco designed stained glass nook windows to either side of the fireplace are all typical of the uncluttered lines of Australian Art Deco architecture in the late 30s, just before the Second World War. Unlike its neighbours, which are Victorian and and Edwardian, it is very stark in detail and stands out amongst the crowd. As most houses in Leongatha were built and well established by this time, this Art Deco villa is somewhat of a rarity in the town.
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.
The Colac Police Station and Court House complex has been built on the corner of Queen and Dennis Streets with the entrance facing onto Dennis Street.
Designed by Public Works Department the Colac Police Station is very Art Deco in spirit. Built of cream clinker bricks it features very Functionalist Moderne windows, a concrete enclosed vestibule with Deco detailing and a stepped skyline with red brick detailing, upon which may also be found the crown of King George V which may be found on similar Public Works Department designed police stations of the 1930s around the state of Victoria.
The new Colac Police Station and Court House were built on the site of the former Court House and Police Station that were built in 1889. The original bluestone cells from the original complex still exist to this day and are in use in the Twenty-First Century.
Located approximately 150 kilometres to the south-west of Melbourne, past Geelong is the small Western District city of Colac. The area was originally settled by Europeans in 1837 by pastoralist Hugh Murray. A small community sprung up on the southern shore of a large lake amid the volcanic plains. The community was proclaimed a town, Lake Colac, in 1848, named after the lake upon which it perches. The post office opened in 1848 as Lake Colac and was renamed Colac in 1854 when the city changed its name. The township grew over the years, its wealth generated by the booming grazing industries of the large estates of the Western District and the dairy industry that accompanied it. Colac has a long high street shopping precinct, several churches, botanic gardens, a Masonic hall and a smattering of large properties within its boundaries, showing the conspicuous wealth of the city. Today Colac is still a commercial centre for the agricultural district that surrounds it with a population of around 10,000 people. Although not strictly a tourist town, Colac has many beautiful surviving historical buildings or interest, tree lined streets. Colac is known as “the Gateway to the Otways” (a reference to the Otway Ranges and surrounding forest area that is located just to the south of the town).
What more can you say about this art moderne/ interior art deco masterpiece : the interior has been extensively refurbished, as part of the New Wine Church, and is called Gateway House: their website has a little 'mini-movie show' of the interior
Here's a link to the above : www.gatewayhouse.com/04_vt_01.html
Here's a link to some great pix, one from about 1950 and one from 1972....
mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/cavalcade/index.html
and here's the original 1937 picture by th eofficial Odeon photographer John Maltby
www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConGallery.42/ima...
The Golden Gate Bridge spans 8,981 feet across the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay onto the Pacific Ocean, connecting San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County. Designed by engineer Joseph Strauss and architect Irving Morrow, it was the longest suspension bridge span in the world when it opened on May 27, 1937. It has since been surpassed by eight other bridges, but still has the second longest suspension bridge main span in the United States after the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York.
Before the bridge was built, the only practical route across the Golden Gate was by boat, which held San Francisco's growth rate below the national average. However, many experts believed that the 6,700-foot strait could not be bridged. It had strong swirling tides, strong winds, and reached depths of 500-feet at its center.
In 1916, former engineering student James Wilkins wrote an article with a proposed design for a crossing in the San Francisco Bulletin. The City Engineer estimated the cost at an impractical $100 million and challenged bridge engineers to reduce costs. Joseph Strauss, an ambitious but modestly accomplished engineer, responded with a plan for bookend cantilevers connected by a central suspension segment, which he promised could be built for $17 million. Strauss spent the better part of the next decade drumming up support and construction began on January 5, 1933.
As chief engineer in charge, Strauss, with an eye towards self promotion downplayed the contributions of his collaborators who were largely responsible for the bridge's final form Architect Irving Morrow designed the overall shape of the bridge towers, the lighting scheme and Art Deco elements, and used the International Orange color as a sealant. And Charles Alton Ellis, collaborating remotely with Leon Moisseiff, was the principal engineer, producing the basic structural design, introducing Moisseiff's "deflection theory" by which a thin, flexible roadway would flex in the wind, greatly reducing stress by transmitting forces via suspension cables to the bridge towers
In 2007, the Golden Gate Bridge was ranked #5 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
California Historical Landmark No. 974, San Francisco Landmark No. 222 (5/21/1999)
Melbourne based street artist Rone (Tyrone Wright) used the decaying glory of the 1933 Harry Norris designed Streamline Moderne mansion, Burnham Beeches in the Dandenong Ranges' Sherbrooke, between March the 6th and April 22nd to create an immersive hybrid art space for his latest installation exhibition; "Empire".
"Empire" combined a mixture of many different elements including art, sound, light, scent, found objects, botanic designs, objects from nature and music especially composed for the project by Nick Batterham. The Burnham Beeches project re-imagines and re-interprets the spirit of one of Victoria’s landmark mansions, seldom seen by the public and not accessed since the mid 1980s. According to Rone - Empire website; "viewers are invited to consider what remains - the unseen cultural, social, artistic and spiritual heritage which produces intangible meaning."
Rone was invited by the current owner of Burnham Beeches, restaurateur Shannon Bennett, to exhibit "Empire" during a six week interim period before renovations commence to convert the heritage listed mansion into a select six star hotel.
Rone initially imagined the mansion to be in a state of dereliction, but found instead that it was a stripped back blank canvas for him to create his own version of how he thought it should look. Therefore, almost all the decay is in fact of Rone's creation from grasses in the Games Room which 'grow' next to a rotting billiards table, to the damp patches, water staining and smoke damage on the ceilings. Nests of leaves fill some spaces, whilst tree branches and in one case an entire avenue of boughs sprout from walls and ceilings. Especially designed Art Deco wallpaper created in Rone's studio has been installed on the walls before being distressed and damaged. The rooms have been adorned with furnishings and objects that might once have graced the twelve original rooms of Burnham Beeches: bulbulous club sofas, half round Art Deco tables, tarnished silverware and their canteen, mirrored smoke stands of chrome and Bakelite, glass lamps, English dinner services, a glass drinks trolley, photos of people long forgotten in time, walnut veneer dressing tables reflecting the installation sometimes in triplicate, old wire beadsteads, luggage, shelves of books, an Underwood typewriter, a John Broadwood and Sons of London grand piano and even a Kriesler radiogramme. All these objects were then covered in a thick sheet or light sprinkling of 'dust' made of many different things including coffee grinds and talcum powder, creating a sensation for the senses. Burnham Beeches resonated with a ghostly sense of its former grandeur, with a whiff of bittersweet romance.
Throughout the twelve rooms, magnificent and beautifully haunting floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall portraits of Australian actress Lily Sullivan, star of the Foxtel re-make of Picnic at Hanging Rock, appear. Larger than life, each portrait is created in different colours, helping to create seasonal shifts as you move from room to room.
Although all the rooms are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study features walls of books covered with a portrait of Lily Sullivan, and the entire room is partially submerged in a lake of black water with the occasional red oak leaf floating across its glassy surface. The Dining Room features two long tables covered in a Miss Havisham like feast of a trove of dinner table objects from silverware and glassware to empty oyster shells and vases of grasses and feathers.
The Dining Room installation I found especially confronting. In 1982, I visited Burnham Beeches when it was a smart and select hotel and had Devonshire tea in the dining room at a table alongside the full length windows overlooking the terraces below. I was shocked to see a room I remember appointed with thick carpets and tables covered in gleaming silver and white napery, strewn with dust and leaves, and adorned with Miss Havisham's feast of found dining objects.
I feel very honoured and privileged to be amongst the far too few people fortunate enough to have seen Rone's "Empire", as like the seasons, it is ephemeral, and it will already have been dismantled. Rone's idea is that, like his street art, things he creates don't last forever, and that made the project exciting. I hope that my photographs do justice to, and adequately share as much as is possible of this amazing installation with you.
The 1939 Palmer House is a Streamline Moderne hotel. This is evident by the two continuous bands of windows with eyebrows that continue around the corner - without the window.
The left facade includes corner windows with eyebrows. Above them is a stepped rooftop.
The current Bair’s Otago Hotel located at 18 – 22 Bair Street Leongatha, dates from 1939 and replaced the original hotel which has timber verandahs and cast iron lacework. The 1939 Bair’s Otago Hotel was designed by architect Trevor C. McCullough for Arthur C. Bair, whose father, Robert Bair, had purchased the site at the second sale of Leongatha township allotments held on 18 June, 1889. The first building on this site, known as Bair’s Coffee House, was constructed in 1890 and was subsequently renamed the ‘Otago’ upon the grant of a full hotel licence in March 1891. Due to the lack of any suitable public buildings at that time, the first hotel was to be the venue for Woorayl Council meetings until the new Shire Offices were opened in November 1891. The association of the Council with the Hotel continued for over 90 years, as Council adjourned to the Bair’s Otago Hotel on each meeting day for their midday lunch. This practice was finally discontinued in 1985.
Bair’s Otago Hotel is a two storey manganese brick and render corner hotel built in an amalgam of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne architectural styles. It displays typically strong vertical Art Deco elements in the façade, and horizontal canopies with rounded corners, which are more typical of the Streamline Moderne movement. The hotel features vertical counterpoints of flag pole, rain heads and downpipes and an end bay with a central pier of full height brick. The cantilevered street canopy expresses the corner with a semi-circular end below a band of face brickwork containing the upper windows and a recessed upper verandah with a projecting balustrade and canopy. The corner of Bair’s Otago Hotel features a splendid rounded glass brick infill to the upper floor, horizontal step and groove mouldings to the stepped parapet and the sign on the parapet in typical Art Deco lettering. Sadly, the original acid-etched glass windows of the hotel with a koala motif and the name of the hotel were removed during the post war years and have since been lost.
Historically, Bair’s Otago Hotel demonstrates the development of the hotel industry in the Shire through the interwar period. Whilst many earlier hotels were adapted to Art Deco or Streamline Moderne style in this period of change in the hotel trade, the Otago was completely rebuilt in a much more comprehensive expression of an amalgam of the two styles. It is a notable part of the historic interwar character of Bair Street.
Trevor C. McCullough was a Melbourne based architect and builder who designed and constructed a number of commercial buildings in the Shire during the interwar and immediate postwar period including Bair's Otago Hotel (1939), Elizabeth House (1940) and extensions to the Mirboo North Butter Factory (1949).
Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region. The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets. First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway. The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town. The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.
Taken with my Cameraphone so its not great. The recently restored/rebuilt Art Deco Beresford in Glasgow.
Hallway entrance to the first floor of the Newspaper's General Publication office.
Interior:
With the exception of the carpeting, the interior is all original - circa 1917 - which includes the entire vestibule area, door, woodwork, baseboards, newel post, banister & stairs (red oak), Arts & Crafts stained glass, Lincrusta wainscot, pine floorboards & ceramic tiles (under carpeting).
Furnishings:
Table: Gilbert Rohde for Troy Sunshade. All original chrome with "Troylite" laminate. "Waterfall" legs. 1930s.
Phone : Western Electric Model 202. 1930s.
Skyscraper Lamp: Stacked Lucite base, clear Lucite shaft with red Lucite fins, original lampshade of jute over resined parchment. Late 1930s/1940s.
Clock: American Timer, Chicago. Applejuice Lucite. 1940s.
Picture Frames: Lucite. 1940s.
Brochure: New York World's Fair, 1940.
Chairs: Royalchrome. All original chrome and green vinyl with beige piping. 1940s.
Runner: Radio City Music Hall, Main Lobby - Ruth Reeves. Original - not a reproduction. From the Hall's late 1970s renovation & interior furnishing's dispensation.
The former Vogue Theatre - Oxnard California
It's now an indoor swapmeet and Mercado.
The theatre was designed by S. Charles Lee, one of the premier theatre architects of the 20th century. Another of his creations was the Vogue Theatre in Hollywood: www.flickr.com/photos/cakeight/3575199720/. He also designed the Vine (in Hollywood): www.flickr.com/photos/cakeight/3091864236 The Fox in Bakersfield: www.flickr.com/photos/cakeight/3715526118/ And the Nile in Bakersfield: www.flickr.com/photos/cakeight/3715475172
Union Station was designed by John Parkinson and Donald B. Parkinson who also designed the Los Angeles City Hall among many other landmarks. The structure is an interesting combination between Mission Revival and Streamline Moderne style. It opened in 1939 and is the last great train station constructed in the United States. Amtrak, Metrolink, the Metro Red line, Metro Gold line, and buses serve the station. It is on the National Register #80000811 (and really should also be a National Historic Landmark).
"Riawena" is a wonderfully stylised Streamline Moderne Art Deco Villa in the Melbourne suburb of Thornbury. Its name is taken from the Australian Aboriginal word for "fun" or "sport", which is an unusual choice in the 1930s, when so many people were naming their houses after English or American places.
Standing on the corner of a busy main thoroughfare and a much quieter side street, this well proportioned stand alone villa is extremely large and sprawling, with its original garage next to it behind a high wall. The clean uncluttered lines of the house, the speed lines around the pedement of the rounded portico, feature bricks in geometric patterns and the overall low slung design of the house are very Streamline Moderne in design.
The whole property is surrounded by a low fence with plain pillars and wrought-iron swirls inserts and a gate featuring a geometric Art Deco pattern.
The tree in blossom in this photograph is a prunus; a genus of trees and shrubs, which includes the plums, cherries, peaches, apricots and almonds. This is an ornamental variety, which burst into blossom almost a month before usual owing to an unusually warm spell of weather just prior to the photograph being taken.
Miami est. 1896, pop. 2.6MM
• aka Walgreen's • 5-story $1.5MM Streamline Moderne building and drug store designed by Zimmerman, Saxe & MacBride, Chicago/Sarasota — Ralph Waldo Zimmerman (1889-1976), E. Everett MacBride (1888-1967), Albert H. Saxe (1888-1953) — & associate architect, British Miamian E.A. Ehmann (1880-1947) • second incarnation of ZS&M, the first founded by R.W.'s distinguished father, William Carbys Zimmerman (1859-1932)
• built on site where Miami Woman's Club, est. 1900, first met • when opened, promoted as "world's most beautiful drug store" and largest Walgreen store in US (although actually only 3rd Walgreen's outside of Chicago) • 88' soda fountain counter, dedicated ice cream plant, old-fashioned candy kitchen, food service on several floors including basement, mezzanine & balcony levels
• now La Epoca, founded in Havana, 1885, confiscated by Cuban government, 1960, reopened in Miami, 1965 • longtime tennant of duPont Building before acquiring Walgreen building, 1992 • moved to this location, 2005
• National Register 88002982, 1989 • Downtown Miami Historic District, National Register 05001356, 2005
This building was constructed in 1937 on the Havnegade quay in central Copenhagen and is an example of Danish Functionalism. The southern part of the building was used as a customs house for goods to and from Sweden. The northern part of the building contained the waiting room, kiosk and ticket office for ferries. The last ferry departed in 2002. It is now a restaurant complex, although the restaurants seem to come and go.
Viewed from our Hop On Hop Off canal boat.
26 March 2014. McCann advertising agency, Herbrand Street, London, England, UK.
The McCann building started life in 1931 as the Daimler Hire Garage providing chauffeur-driven limousines. It was designed in the Streamline Moderne style by Wallis Gilbert & Partners, the same architects who designed the Hoover Building in Perivale, London.
A Year in Pictures image 85 of 365.
"Stratton Heights" is a large complex of Art Deco flats designed by Howard Lawson in the late 1930s for Melbourne rag trade character Harry Newport, who had a very successful clothes and fabric import business in Melbourne's Flinders Lane.
Advertised as "bachelor flats" when first built and leased, "Stratton Heights" has a very pared down masculine look about it, with Functionalist streamlined windows and a flat roof. Unlike some of its nighbouring apartment complexes, built in the 20s and 30s, it has no decorative wall treatment beyond the cream stuccoed concrete. A round tower helps to soften its look, as do the ballustrades, which owe more to the Spanish Mission style of the 30s than Functionalism or Streamline Moderne.
With a prominent terraced street frontage along Alexandra Avenue it affords splendid views overlooking the Yarra River to Richmond and the Melbourne city skyline. Harry Newport lived in the penthouse on the very top when the flats were first built, and a friend of mine who moved into "Stratton Heights" in 1945 after the Second World War (who still owns a flat sold to him by Harry Newport in the late 1950s) remembers Christmas and New Year parties held in the penthouse and its rooftop garden.
The "Stratton Heights" complex stretches right back to Davidson Street, where there is a second entrance and a driveway to the only garage, intended for use by the occupier of the penthouse.
Sprawling and stripped back, this is the facade of a pretty and very stylised cream stucco Art Deco villa in the Melbourne suburb of Coonans Hill. The rounded porch canopy, speed lines and the minimal decoration all pay homage to the chic, uncluttered lines of Streamline Moderne Art Deco architecture in the 1930s. The original low fence with its wrought iron gate is also very Art Deco.
The garden to this house is a cottage like with a twist, as it features all Australian native shrubs and grasses.
The iconic Dreyfuss Hudson head-on, low angle shot. Just had to do it.
Now if I could just get the money together to finish the darn thing.
Park Royal. Piccadilly Line. London, England, UK. Taken with a Canon TS-E 24 mm f/3.5 tilt and shift lens for selective focus.
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This CVS used to be the Newton Theatre (John J. Zink, 1937?), at the corner of Newton and 12th Streets NE in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington DC. Fortunately, much of the structure and signage has been preserved.
Glass block slit windows in the Frank Fisher Apartments at 1209 North State Street in Chicago, Illinois. Designed by Andrew Rebori. Seen as part of the Open House Chicago 2012 event arranged by the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
The former Kallang Airport was Singapore first civilian airport when it was completed in 1937. The main terminal building was designed by Frank Dorrington Ward. It had a circular control tower and two side blockswith attached hangers, echoing the shape of an aeroplane. There was a large, open air viewing gallery on the top level. Inside, intricate Art Deco-stule railings and collumns gave it a modernist feel. The airport terminal building has been preserved and served as the headquarters of the People´s Association. ------- (SIN_0807_3452). Image copyrighted.
"Stratton Heights" is a large complex of Art Deco flats designed by Howard Lawson in the late 1930s for Melbourne rag trade character Harry Newport, who had a very successful clothes and fabric import business in Melbourne's Flinders Lane.
Advertised as "bachelor flats" when first built and leased, "Stratton Heights" has a very pared down masculine look about it, with Functionalist streamlined windows and a flat roof. Unlike some of its nighbouring apartment complexes, built in the 20s and 30s, it has no decorative wall treatment beyond the cream stuccoed concrete. A round tower helps to soften its look, as do the ballustrades, which owe more to the Spanish Mission style of the 30s than Functionalism or Streamline Moderne.
With a prominent terraced street frontage along Alexandra Avenue it affords splendid views overlooking the Yarra River to Richmond and the Melbourne city skyline. Harry Newport lived in the penthouse on the very top when the flats were first built, and a friend of mine who moved into "Stratton Heights" in 1945 after the Second World War (who still owns a flat sold to him by Harry Newport in the late 1950s) remembers Christmas and New Year parties held in the penthouse and its rooftop garden.
The "Stratton Heights" complex stretches right back to Davidson Street, where there is a second entrance and a driveway to the only garage, intended for use by the occupier of the penthouse.
Kia Ora is located at 449-453 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, 3004. It is on the east side of St. Kilda Road, half-way between Toorak and Commercial Roads.
Kia Ora was completed in 1936 in the style of Streamline Moderne. Kia Ora was commissioned by the Dixon family, who owned the "Kia Ora" cordial factory, and designed by architect Lewis Levy (1890-1970). When first built, they boasted wall panel hydronic heating, walk-in closets and modern kitchens.
Fawkner Park, one of Melbourne's larger inner city parks, graces the rear of Kia Ora, and the residents are fortunate to have a private gate to access the park.
Deco design by Guy Morgan, 1936. Ten storeys, 126 flats, Grade II listed. Charterhouse Square, London Borough of Islington.
The former State Government offices building in Ballarat's Camp Street was designed by Chief Government Architect Percy Everett (1888 - 1967) and opened in 1941 to house the local state government offices and courthouse. A commemorative plaque announcing that building was opened by the then Premier of Victoria, the Honourable A. A. Dunstan M. L.A. appears to the right of the main entranceway. Created of clinker brick and concrete in Art Deco style, it is remarkably similar in design to the Russell Street Police Station in Melbourne (also designed by Percy Everett), and a good example of the era. It features Functionalist Moderne windows and doors, hexagonal Art Deco lamps and very stripped back detailing. The main entranceway is crowned by Dieu et Mon Droit emblem on the King George VI which is painted and gilt.
It's curious that this beautiful building sits in Camp Street given its contrasting architectural style to the otherwise Victorian-influenced street. The building faces Sturt Street rather than Camp Street, and has been beautifully maintained.
The State Government Offices are now located in Mair Street, and the city's court house has moved to the corner of Albert and Dana Streets. This building is now part of the University of Ballarat's Arts Academy.
Percy Everett is also known for having designed Heatherton hospital (1945), the Fairfield Golf Clubhouse (1934),
Essendon Technical School (1939), the State Accident Insurance Office in Melbourne (1941), the William Angliss Food Trades in Melbourne(1941), the Russel Street Police Headquarters in Melbourne (1942–1943), F.G.Scholes Block (Wards) Fa Hospital in Fairfield(1949) and the RMIT Building 5&9 in Melbourne(1938).
Originally called the “Music Museum and Grainger Museum”, the “Grainger Museum” is a small Streamline Moderne Art Deco building, built between 1935 and 1939, a repository of items documenting the life, career and music of the well known Australian composer, folklorist and pianist, Percy Grainger (1882 – 1961).
Built on one of Melbourne’s grand tree lined boulevards, Royal Parade in Parkville, the autobiographical museum was constructed in two stages between 1935 and 1939, on land provided for the purpose by the University of Melbourne. The Grainger Museum was designed by the staff architect of Melbourne University, John Stevens Gawler (1885 – 1978) through his architectural firm Gawler and Drummond. The building, built of brown clinker bricks is typical of Streamline Moderne design in Australia in the late 1930s, yet it also has undertones of the Arts and Crafts movement. It has very little detailing on the outside, with a severe arched entranceway, two windows featuring Art Deco grillework, a few decorative panels of brickwork (quite typical of John Gawler’s work) and the remaining windows consisting of glass bricks. The name of the museum appears above the main entranceway in stark Art Deco lettering made of cast iron which have been painted black. The museum is circular and features a small central courtyard accessed by two sets of French doors. The courtyard facades are detailed with decorative brickwork.
The Grainger Museum received input from Mr. Grainger in its design as well as its purpose, as well as funding provided by the composer. Mr. Grainger had contemplated establishing an autobiographical museum in the early 1920s, following the sudden suicide of his mother Rose, to whom he was very devoted. The museum contains large quantity of material from Mr. Grainger’s life, including art and furnishings from his home, musical instruments that he used, compositions, recordings, reformist clothing, published scores, field recordings, photographs, books and personal items belonging not only to Mr. Grainger, but also his mother. It also contains a curio case of whips that Mr. Grainger used in sadomasochist sexual acts which were in a trunk given to the museum with strict instructions that it was not to be opened until ten year after his death. The trunk also contained photographs of the composer after sessions of self flagellation. The museum also contains large amounts of material concerning some of his musical contemporaries, many of whom have fallen into obscurity. The Grainger Museum was officially opened in December 1938, and was staffed and maintained by Mr. Grainger throughout his life.
Sadly, the Grainger Museum suffered some initial setbacks with the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, when the building was used for storage for the duration, rather than its original purpose. The museum’s designs were also problematic, as the building was prone to leaks and required extensive waterproofing. The majority of objects were not put on public display until the 1950s when Mr. Grainger visited Australia with the intention of finishing his autobiographical project; something he failed to do as he set sail for his New York home with the task still incomplete. During the 1960s the Grainger Museum was opened to the public regularly for the first time and was sometimes used for concerts and musical workshops for jazz and other avant-garde music, which would have pleased Mr. Grainger, who sadly had died some five years before this eventuality. The Grainger Museum quietly closed its doors in 2003 for extensive renovation, restoration and conservation work. It reopened seven years later 2010, and has been open selectively ever since, showcasing Mr. Grainger’s life and works in a smart, well set out and discreet fashion.
Percy Aldridge Grainger was born in Brighton, Melbourne. He showed precocious talent in music, and at the age of 13 he left Australia to further his ability by attending the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1901 he moved to London, where with the assistance of his mother, he established himself as a successful society pianist, and developed a career as a concert performer and composer. During his time in London, he also collected original folk melodies and helped revive interest in British folk music in the early years of the 20th Century. Mr. Grainger left England in 1914, and moved to the United States, where he lived for the rest of his life, residing in White Haven, a suburb of New York with his mother, Rose, who was always his greatest supporter and exponent. Mr. Grainger took up American citizenship in 1918. After his mother committed suicide in 1922, he involved himself more with educational work, and created his own experimental and unusual musical compositions. He particularly enjoyed musical experiments with fantastic music machines that he imagined, and perhaps hoped, would supersede human interpretation one day. During this time, he also made adaptations of other composers' musical works. In 1926, while returning to America from a tour, he met Ella Ström, a Swedish-born artist, whom he married before an enraptured audience at one of his concerts at the Hollywood Bowl in 1928. Mr. Grainger already had a great interest in Nordic music, but his wife’s lineage only served to drive his passion for such music even more. As he grew older he continued to give concerts. He also revised and rearranged compositions of his own, preferring this to writing new music, of which he produced little. After the Second World War, he suffered ill health which reduced his productivity and activity in his passions, and he considered his career to be a failure. He gave his final concert in 1960, less than a year before his death. The piece of music with which Percy Grainger is most generally remembered is his pretty piano arrangement of the folk-dance tune “Country Gardens”.
The architectural firm of Gawler and Drummond was a prolific, though rather undistinguished firm that designed a range of domestic, industrial, commercial and church buildings. These include the McRorie house in Camberwell in 1916, the Fitzroy department store Ackmans Ltd in 1918, the Loch Church of England in 1926, the Korumburra Church of England in 1927, the Deaf and Dumb Society's church at Jolimont in 1929 and the Nyora Church of England in 1930. The Percy Grainger Museum is perhaps Gawler and Drummond’s most distinguished work.
The Grainger Museum was open as part of the 2014 Open House Melbourne Weekend.
An exceptionally graceful art deco sans serif design. It could see in many others building around London. ------- (LON_0208_3630 - Image copyrighted).
One of three Art Deco residential blocks near intersection of Bruce Grove and Lordship Lane. Architect unknown, built "shortly after the 1935 Ordnance Survey" (Conservation Area No. 6, Haringey Council). Locally listed by London Borough of Haringey.
The Palo Alto Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, at 95 University Avenue, was built in 1940 by architect J.H. Christie. As a regional transit center it serves Santa Clara County and San Mateo County Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) transit bus passengers as well as Caltrain commuters. The depot is an excellent example of the Streamline Moderne--atypical for Palo Alto, whose most significant buildings were designed exclusively in Mission Revival or Spanish Colonial Revival style. It echoes the look of Streamline trainwith porthole windows, horizontal parallel lines to indicate speed and glass blocks.
The one-story building, which replaced an earlier depot built in 1897, is The building is 215 feet long by 25 feet wide with an arcade in front and a marquee at the rear including two buildings connected by an arcade. The interior features a mural, by John McQuarrie, with a central theme of Leland Stanford's dream of a University influenced by a pageant of transportation.
National Register #96000425
The Palo Alto Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, at 95 University Avenue, was built in 1940 by architect J.H. Christie. As a regional transit center it serves Santa Clara County and San Mateo County Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) transit bus passengers as well as Caltrain commuters. The depot is an excellent example of the Streamline Moderne--atypical for Palo Alto, whose most significant buildings were designed exclusively in Mission Revival or Spanish Colonial Revival style. It echoes the look of Streamline trainwith porthole windows, horizontal parallel lines to indicate speed and glass blocks.
The one-story building, which replaced an earlier depot built in 1897, is The building is 215 feet long by 25 feet wide with an arcade in front and a marquee at the rear including two buildings connected by an arcade. The interior features a mural, by John McQuarrie, with a central theme of Leland Stanford's dream of a University influenced by a pageant of transportation.
National Register #96000425
Jerry Famous Deli, at 1450 Collins Avenue, was originally built as Hoffman's Cafeteria in 1940 by Henry Hohauser. After World War II, the building became a social hall for retirees of Polish descent and was renamed the Warsaw Ballroom. For much of the late twentieth century, a gay nightclub or "dance hall" operated here under various names, the most famous of which was the Warsaw. In 2001-2, the owners of Jerry's Famous Deli hired Charles Benson & Associates to renovate the space, restoring the grandeur of the original streamline moderne design and converting it back into a twenty-four hour cafeteria.
Jerry's Famous Deli was originally opened in Studio City, California in 1978 by Ike Starkman. It has since expanded to ten locations in California and south Florida.
The Miami Beach Architectural District, also known as Old Miami Beach Historic District, or the more common, Miami Beach Art Deco District, is roughly bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Alton Road and Collins Canal/Dade Boulevard and 5th Street. With 960 vibrantly colored historic buildings, it contains the largest concentration of 1920s and 1930s resort architecture in the United States.
Miami Beach Architectural District #79000667 (1979)
UPTOWN Theatre, located in Grand Prairie Texas at 120 E. Main Street. NOW OPEN!! Their website is up & going! See here:.. www.uptowntheatergp.com/ ... The Uptown, which opened in 1950, is standing Proud Today! The Theatre has been totally renovated! Check out their website, there could be a group, artist, or a play you'd like to see!!!
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The Golden Gate Bridge spans 8,981 feet across the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay onto the Pacific Ocean, connecting San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to Marin County. Designed by engineer Joseph Strauss and architect Irving Morrow, it was the longest suspension bridge span in the world when it opened on May 27, 1937. It has since been surpassed by eight other bridges, but still has the second longest suspension bridge main span in the United States after the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York.
Before the bridge was built, the only practical route across the Golden Gate was by boat, which held San Francisco's growth rate below the national average. However, many experts believed that the 6,700-foot strait could not be bridged. It had strong swirling tides, strong winds, and reached depths of 500-feet at its center.
In 1916, former engineering student James Wilkins wrote an article with a proposed design for a crossing in the San Francisco Bulletin. The City Engineer estimated the cost at an impractical $100 million and challenged bridge engineers to reduce costs. Joseph Strauss, an ambitious but modestly accomplished engineer, responded with a plan for bookend cantilevers connected by a central suspension segment, which he promised could be built for $17 million. Strauss spent the better part of the next decade drumming up support and construction began on January 5, 1933.
As chief engineer in charge, Strauss, with an eye towards self promotion downplayed the contributions of his collaborators who were largely responsible for the bridge's final form Architect Irving Morrow designed the overall shape of the bridge towers, the lighting scheme and Art Deco elements, and used the International Orange color as a sealant. And Charles Alton Ellis, collaborating remotely with Leon Moisseiff, was the principal engineer, producing the basic structural design, introducing Moisseiff's "deflection theory" by which a thin, flexible roadway would flex in the wind, greatly reducing stress by transmitting forces via suspension cables to the bridge towers
In 2007, the Golden Gate Bridge was ranked #5 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
California Historical Landmark No. 974, San Francisco Landmark No. 222 (5/21/1999)
Although not famous for its Art Deco architecture, the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, which was established between the 1860s and 1880s when the area was at the centre of a gold rush, does have some fine examples of interwar and post war architecture when the gold boom was replaced with wealth generated through grazing and agriculture.
During the 1920s and 1930s, those people thriving from farming or local industry had plenty to spend in local shops. This wonderful Art Deco facade (circa 1925 - 1930) belongs to the PPL Building in Ballarat's main shopping thoroughfare, Sturt Street. Whilst the street level may have fallen victim to the changes in marketing, the upper floors remain unchanged by fickle owners. It still retains its striking minimalist Art Deco design. It features the building's name in a rounded cartouche on the building's corner facade which overlooks Albert Street. The PPL Building has a stylised stepped roofline, long spandrels with rounded edging and glass brick windows, all of which were popular architectural features of the Art Deco movement in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The rounded edges are very representative of the Streamline Moderne movement, and the building is everything a smart and successful business would want in the booming interwar years in Australia.
The Ravilious Rotunda Bar, originally the hotel tea-room, and the restored (and adapted) mural originally designed and painted by Eric Ravilious and his wife Tirzah Garwood in 1933.
Designed in Streamline Moderne style by architect Oliver Hill, with sculptures by Eric Gill, the hotel was built by the London Midland & Scottish Railway and opened in 1933. It finally closed in 1998 and lay derelict until it was restored in 2006-2008 and reopened as a hotel again.
Built between the two World Wars, this wonderfully stylised Streamline Moderne Art Deco Villa of clinker brick is in one of the finer suburbs of Ballarat.
The villa is large and stand alone, with its original garage next to it. The clean uncluttered lines of the villa attest to the architectural fashions of the Art Deco movement during the 1920s and 1930s. Streamline Moderne features include the brown brick banding mid way around the wall and the top of the enclosed vestibule. It also features large sash windows.
A house of this style would have appealed to a moneyed upper-class Ballarat family who wished to express their chic artistic advancement, and would have displayed their wealth and standing in the Ballarat community.
The former State Government offices building in Ballarat's Camp Street was designed by Chief Government Architect Percy Everett (1888 - 1967) and opened in 1941 to house the local state government offices and courthouse. A commemorative plaque announcing that building was opened by the then Premier of Victoria, the Honourable A. A. Dunstan M. L.A. appears to the right of the main entranceway. Created of clinker brick and concrete in Art Deco style, it is remarkably similar in design to the Russell Street Police Station in Melbourne (also designed by Percy Everett), and a good example of the era. It features Functionalist Moderne windows and doors, hexagonal Art Deco lamps and very stripped back detailing. The main entranceway is crowned by Dieu et Mon Droit emblem on the King George VI which is painted and gilt.
It's curious that this beautiful building sits in Camp Street given its contrasting architectural style to the otherwise Victorian-influenced street. The building faces Sturt Street rather than Camp Street, and has been beautifully maintained.
The State Government Offices are now located in Mair Street, and the city's court house has moved to the corner of Albert and Dana Streets. This building is now part of the University of Ballarat's Arts Academy.
Percy Everett is also known for having designed Heatherton hospital (1945), the Fairfield Golf Clubhouse (1934),
Essendon Technical School (1939), the State Accident Insurance Office in Melbourne (1941), the William Angliss Food Trades in Melbourne(1941), the Russel Street Police Headquarters in Melbourne (1942–1943), F.G.Scholes Block (Wards) Fa Hospital in Fairfield(1949) and the RMIT Building 5&9 in Melbourne(1938).
This is a classy classic of an Art Deco to Streamline Moderne interior architectural design found in the Winterhaven Hotel on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach.
Two immigrants architects, the German Erich Mendelsohn and the Russian Serge Chermayeff, were chosen to enliven Bexhill as a British seaside resort. ---------- (LON_DSCN8383). Image copyrighted.
The Bancroft Hotel was built in 1939. The hotel's asymmetry is a departure from Art Deco's classic threes.
The facade includes eyebrows that extend between the windows and around the corner, giving the building 'racing stripes'. To the right of the door is a glass block tower which helps to break up the strong horizontal lines created by the eyebrows.