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The Camberwell Police Station and Court House Complex on the Corner of Camberwell Road and Butler Street in the Melbourne eastern suburb of Camberwell, was designed by Public Works Department architect, Percy Edgar Everett (1888 - 1967).
The complex was built by W. A. Medbury between 1938 and 1939. in the Streamline Moderne style which had been influencing Australian architecture since its first appearance in the early 1930s. The complex is set on a diagonal axis. The buildings are constructed of red, brown and manganese bricks and contain Percy Everett's trademark pattern detailing. Other Art Decdo details include this wonderful noticeboard. Even the print is very Deco!
The complex still retains a law enforcement function to this day, as the court house is now used for Administrative Appeals Tribunals and the police station still functions.
Percy Everett's other architectural works include; the Fairfield Club House in 1934, the Essendon technical School in 1939 and the Russell Street Police Headquarters in 1942 and 1943.
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.
Crossroads of the World, the central building at the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Prospect Avenue in Disney's Hollywood Studios, sells general merchandize including souvenirs, cameras, rainwear and sundries. It is designed after the streamline-moderne central building of Crossroads of the World, located at Sunset Boulevard and Las Palmas in Los Angeles. Designed by Robert V. Derrah in 1936, it has been called America's first outdoor shopping mall. The Disney version is topped by a five-foot Mickey Mouse, with one of Mickey's ears functioning as a lightning rod.
Lady Bankes Junior School, Dawlish Drive, Ruislip (1936) by William Curtis and H W Burchett
Photo taken on a Twentieth Century Society tour of modern churches in West London on 12th April 2008.
I think I remember reading about this diner in some of the tourist material about Miami Beach, but I can't remember what it said. I will try to look it up to add a link here later. It's a 1948 dining car from Wilkes-Barre, PA and only moved to Sobe in 1992 www.eleventhstreetdiner.com/menu.pdf
Chow. 505 Northwest 14th Avenue at NW Glisan Street - Portland, Oregon. I like the look of the Art Deco/Streamline Moderne former gas station. Built 1940. I'm guessing it was an old Texaco station.
The Tiffany Hotel was built in 1939. With the aluminum and neon finial tower with its name in lights, the hotel has a futuristic appearance. Add the vertical lines in the corner windows, and it actually looks like a rocket when viewed from the center of the street!
The hotel has a rounded corner entry. There are small eyebrows over sections of the windows. There are also large portholes on the ground floor of the Collins Avenue facade.
The Tiffany Hotel was built in 1939. With the aluminum and neon finial tower with its name in lights, the hotel has a futuristic appearance. Add the vertical lines in the corner windows, and it actually looks like a rocket when viewed from the center of the street!
The hotel has a rounded corner entry. There are small eyebrows over sections of the windows. There are also large portholes on the ground floor of the Collins Avenue facade.
Stephen Joseph Theatre by night
Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England - Stephen Joseph Theatre (Odeon Cinema), Westborough & Northway
December 2002 (image reworked 2020)
This wonderful Art Deco walnut case wireless radio was made by the New Zealand manufacturers, Temple. According to its serial number, it was made in 1935 and is very much typical of a wireless found in most middle-class homes during the 1930s. It has a pyramid case; still a popular shape after “Egyptomania” or “Tutmania” gripped the world after the discovery of Pharaoh Tutankhamen’s tomb in 1922. Its edges however, are rounded, hinting at the Streamline Moderne style so popular in the mid 1930s. Whilst the fine veneer is a warm walnut, the very Art Deco speaker grille and the two fin details on the front are made of stained blackwood. The manufacturer’s name is picked out in brass on red enamel above the convex glass dial and the lozenge knobs are of mottled chocolate brown Bakelite (an early form of plastic that came into everyday use in the 1920s and 30s). Worked with beautiful glass valves, this radio has to be allowed to warm up before use, but still works beautifully, sending forth a soft, slightly dappled sound that only wireless radios of this era and vintage can do. It can still pick up all AM radio stations as well as shortwave radio from around the world.
Private collection.
Architect: Charles Holden, 1933, reinforced concrete, Cornish granite and glazing within steel frames. Circular underground station in the Streamline Moderne Art Deco style. The design of the exuberant roof finial was adopted from the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition, according to English Heritage. Regarded as one of Charles Holden's best underground stations and Grade II* listed. London Borough of Enfield.
I worked this one the most at Photoshop 6.0 to get rid of all the other distractions from La Casina (buildings left and right and a car out front) For an explanation about this building: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/7235107404
Some info and interiors: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/30041887498 "Design for total living environment
Marine Court was designed to provide “an environment for total living” – a self-contained lifestyle within the complex, but not necessarily within each apartment. Modest sized flats
originally had tiny kitchens - it was assumed that most of the inhabitants would dine in the main restaurant at the eastern end of the building, or avail themselves of room service.
There were shops, parking, roof sun decks and recreational facilities (including a dance floor and bar) – and in-house staff to do the chores (there are still some call buttons to summons the now-defunct service).
Up-market apart-hotel
While the majority of the accommodation was clearly aimed at long term residence, early sales material indicates that some apartments were originally available for rent at the high-status price of four guineas a week (over £1,000 at
today’s values) for a furnished double apartment, plus meals –an early precursor of the now-fashionable “apart-hotel” idea.
“The Ship Building”
Before construction, a perspective of Marine Court by Raymond Myerscough-Walker 4 was exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1935. Although not as finally built, this shows the familiar general exterior “ship” design theme and concept for the building :
• very strong, bold composition and block form
• dark “underwater” ground floor below the canopy, which is clearly intended as the “waterline” of the ship, even down to the “wave” motif on the canopy fascia
• a clean smooth continuous profile at 1stand 2nd floor, and around the eastern end – the “hull” and “prow” of the ship
• long, very emphatic, recessed horizontal balconies
stacked up above 2nd floor - the “superstructure” of the ship
• three pairs of double vertical towers above the residential foyers running right up the building above 2nd floor
• uniformly curved eastern end balconies – the “bridges” above the “prow” of the ship
• striking curved open corner balconies around the western end – the “superstructure” above the “stern” of the ship"
www.hastings.gov.uk/content/conservation/building_conserv...
I came upon this unawares the first time in 2007 and I only have been back twice in 10 years, so .... www.modernistbritain.co.uk/post/building/Marine+Court/
Still with its original glass and window frames is this house on Broughton Road, one of several built in the Streamline Moderne style.
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Oscar’s Hotel and Café Bar is a beautiful Art Deco, boutique hotel in the heart of the Victorian provincial city of Ballarat. Located at 18 Doveton Street, it is the perfect base when sightseeing around the city, as it is so close to many beautiful and historical Ballarat buildings.
Oscar’s, when it was first built in the 1860s was originally the Criterion Hotel, a popular venue in the gold rush days. However, as the Gold Rush dwindled and was replaced with wealth generated through grazing and agriculture in the surrounding area, so the Criterion Hotel changed.
In the 1930s, it was completely refurbished inside. It is this interior with its Streamline Moderne liner style staircase, acid etched frosted glass windows and skyscraper style fireplaces that you see today after a recent restoration.
On a personal note as someone who has stayed there, Oscar’s offers a stylish and comforatable hotel experience at a reasonable price. It also has great food and excellent service.
A rare example of Streamline Moderne architecture in San Francisco.
I couldn't find who was the original architect.
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).
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).
The New York Central K-5b Pacific Class 4-6-2 steam locomotive #4915 with Henry Dreyfuss' streamline design. Originally manufactured in 1926 by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO), no. 4915 and her sister no. 4917 were streamlined in 1936 to lead The New York Central’s most luxurious experience on rails.
This project is my first MOC and has taken about a year and a half to complete with many challenges arising in trying to obtain the beautiful "streamline moderne" styling. Perseverance paid off however and through 1/2 steps, 1/3 steps and even 1/6 steps I have ended with a final version that I hope you all will enjoy.
The model is 8-wide, built to 1:48 scale and is designed to fit all standard lego track geometry. The locomotive is powered by two Power Functions M motors.
Directions to the build can be found here:
This theatre was established in 1884 and rebuilt with a new design by Robert Cromie in 1937. A extensive refurbished was made in 2004 by Sir Cameron Mackintosh its current owner. -------- (LON_DSCN9654). Image copyrighted.
Located at 5 High Road, Streatham, London SW16. This opened as the Regal Cinema with a seating capacity of 1,962 seats. It was designed by William R. Glen. Re-named ABC in 1960 it was tripled in 1977. It became the Cannon Cinema, then reverted back to the ABC name. It closed in December 2000.
Photographed here in September 2004, the auditorium had been demolished, leaving the facade and foyer, which was kept, as a result of its status as a Grade II Listed building. It now forms the entrance to the block of apartments that were built on the site of the auditorium.
Visited as part of Open House 2009.
Unusual 1930s ship-shaped school building, converted to nursery. Dropped ceilings and child-height porthole windows give suitable scale of space whilst complementing external elevations. Grade II listed. Civic Trust commendation 2000.
This elegant building was designed by the architects to the Borough of Ilford in 1934, although no individual name has been traced. It was built for the teaching of domestic science subjects but had stood empty since 1983.
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.
The Tudor Hotel was built in 1939. Along both facades are continuous eyebrows on both upper floors. The railings on the roof give the hotel a decidedly ocean liner appearance.
The hotel has a rounded Streamline corner entry. The corner on the second and third floors has a coral-tinted keystone.
The full front view of the restored Fowler Theatre in downtown Fowler, Indiana. Designed by Alexander K. Eugene of Chicago, it opened in early 1940. It was restored by the community since 2001 and is staffed by volunteers. Read an interesting review of the building when it opened by clicking on History at the following link:
The Kehias Bldg. was "Erected to commemorate our 25th Anniversary for the progress of Pana 1914-1939. So says the cornerstone behind the red car. This modern building could use some work.
Photographed using a Sony NEX 5N using a Leica Hektor 28mm f/2.6 lens.
Former car dealership
St. Joseph, MO
I think Buicks were sold here until at least the late '80s. Now it appears to be a shop for cabinetry and/or fixtures. Love the rounded corners and band of chrome!
The Greyhound Station is one of the city’s best examples of the Streamline Moderne style, with its rounded corner, curved canopy, and ribbon windows on the upper level. This popular style of the 1930s and 1940s was meant to express movement and speed, and the building matched the styling of the company’s busses during that period. Architect: W. D. Peugh
Interior of the former National Art Gallery (circa 1930's) in Nanjing China. The renovation was almost complete at the time of this photo. Since the museum was not open, we had to politely ask to "look around".
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).
Visited as part of Open House 2009.
Unusual 1930s ship-shaped school building, converted to nursery. Dropped ceilings and child-height porthole windows give suitable scale of space whilst complementing external elevations. Grade II listed. Civic Trust commendation 2000.
This elegant building was designed by the architects to the Borough of Ilford in 1934, although no individual name has been traced. It was built for the teaching of domestic science subjects but had stood empty since 1983.
Built in 1939, this Streamline Moderne example boasts a steel and glass-block entrance. For a view of its facade, look elsewhere in this photoset (Residential Detroit).
Opened 1949 as a regular movie theater built in the streamline moderne style. By 1973, it was showing porn films, switched back to a non porn in 1977, only to have the adult films return a year later, which the theater showed as such until 2000, when it was shut down by the County of Santa Clara. The theater has been stripped of it's seats and the screen by the new owner, but not much can operate in the building given the lack of parking at the theater site.
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