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I was in a hurry the night I flew into FLL to get to this art deco museum while it was free and before it closed. That's why I wasn't on my guard about checking out the rental car for previous scratches, etc. and I felt taken advantage of by Enterprise. And I didn't make it to the area of this museum until 10 min. til closing and couldn't see it in the dark, so all that thoughtless rushing for nothing but extra cost in the end!!
The De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea in East Sussex (UK) is a Grade I listed modernist art deco gallery and auditorium.
The Pavilion was built in 1935 and designed by architects Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff.
Nice shot by David on his travels and posted here with very kind permission.
"2" views here !! Where I started my photography in earnest 300 photos and 5 days earlier! Dusk in South Beach at the end of my grand architectural tour and now I'm spotting cultural details :>)))))
The Aquatic Park Bathhouse, now the Maritime Museum of the SF Maritime National Park, was a WPA project during the Great Depression. Here are more tile mosaics on the wall of the veranda, by Sargent Claude Johnson. The mosaic mural was intended to cover the entire back wall, but Johnson walked away from the project in protest because the city leased the building to a private club and casino that closed access to the general public (you can see that the back portion of the wall, now painted green, is missing the mosaic - very sad). A Benny Bufano sculpture can be seen at the far end of the veranda. During the controversy over the private lease, Bufano removed his sculptures to the beach, stating "I would rather have kids playing over my statues ...." The Aquatic Park Historic District is a US National Historic Landmark.
The Ravilious Rotunda Bar, originally the hotel tea-room. Its current name honours the artist Eric Ravilious, who was responsible (with his wife) for the mural which originally adorned its interior walls - see next photo.
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.
a bas relief panel from the demolished 1937 globe & mail newspaper building at guildwood park and gardens.
Union Station is right across the road from Olvera Street and needed to be inspected.
It was designed by John Parkinson and Donald B. Parkinson, who also designed City Hall. The station building has a Mission feel to it.
This was uploaded for a discussion in my group Streamline Moderne. www.flickr.com/groups/streamlinemoderne/ There are more photos and posters of Streamlined Ocean Liners in the group.
I've uploaded this to show how the ship has some Streamline features but is not as extreme as the Normandie.
The Queen Mary does not feature as many streamline features. The outriggers on the bridge are flat and face the wind. In the Normandie - they sweep back smoothly.
The stacks leaning back is the most Streamline aspect of the Queen Mary
You can see many details along the sides that might catch the wind, where the Normandy tried to minimize all protrusions to create a smooth surfaces stretching from the bridge to the stern.
Muse of Drama (left), Muse of Music (backround)
The George Stanley designed Muse Fountain near the entrance of the Hollywood Bowl commissioned in 1937, it has recently been restored. Stanley is also the creator of the OSCAR statue.
Amtrak Sleeper No. 10020 “Pacific Bend”. This was built in 1950 by the Budd Company for the Union Pacific Railroad as Sleeper No. 1404. With a configuration of ten roomettes and six double bedrooms, it came to Amtrak in 1971 as Sleeper No. 2603. It was upgraded from steam heat to HEP in 1977 and renumbered 2903. In 1997, the car was converted for service as a crew dormitory for use on Eastern long-distance trains, and was renumbered 2504. Stored in 2006, the car remained inactive until 2007, when it was modified for use by the Amtrak Police Department as a Special Communications Car. It was renumbered 10020 and renamed Pacific Command at that time. The original name, Pacific Bend, has since been restored.
Main Stairway of the Midland Hotel, Morecambe, UK.
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.
The Neptune & Triton Medallion above the stairway is by sculptor Eric Gill.
One of the great examples of Streamline Moderne Art Deco architecture is the May Co. store building in Los Angeles, it was designed by Albert C. Martin, Sr. who also was one of three architects who designed the most recognizable building in LA the Los Angeles City Hall Building......... after May Company closed the store the building was acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and it is now known as LACMA West and a great addition to the museum
The Netherland had some interesting details in its concrete and metal building materials and an interesting decorative "fountain" out front (see next photo)
The Normal Theater opened in November 1937. The Streamline Moderne building was a state of the art cinema at the time which was built to "show sound movies in the best comfortable environment." The original commercial operation of the Normal Theater ended in May 1990. The Town of Normal purchased the theater and reopened it in 1993 through a community restoration effort. Today, theater goers enjoy a "throwback" theater going experience in the fully restored art deco theater. The inside restoration installed plush, coral colored seating, blue, maroon and salmon colored walls, high-modern style aisle lights and layered ceiling of multi colored neon lights. Neat building.
The last time I visited South Beach in 2008, this Beach Patrol Headquarters was mostly sealed up for renovations.
The Midland Hotel is a famous Streamline Moderne building in Morecambe, in Lancashire, England. It was built by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), in 1933, to the designs of architect Oliver Hill, with sculpture by Eric Gill. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The building owes a lot to the Streamline Moderne branch of Art Deco. Oliver Hill designed a three storey curving building, with features such as a central circular tower containing the entrance and a spiral staircase, and a circular cafe at the north end. The front of the hotel also boasts two Art Deco seahorses, which can be viewed at close detail by access to the restored hotel's new rooftop terrace.
The hotel stands on the seafront with the convex side facing the sea, while the concave side faces the railway station - in homage to the railway company whose showcase hotel this was. Hill designed the hotel to complement the curve of the promenade, which also allowed guests to view spectacular panoramas of the north west coast (Wikipedia)
The side view of the famous Lincoln Theatre with the British spelling - See! One of two theaters on Lincoln Road both designed by famous architect Morris Lapidus? 1935.
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
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...
www.modernistbritain.co.uk/post/building/Marine+Court/ Modernist like the De La Warr Pavilion but more Art Deco and Streamline Moderne than International Style (if I get my design tags right :>)
Lakeside Amusement Park is a great little place in Denver, CO. All of the neon sign is original and they have restored all of the signs. The rides are pretty fabulous, too. Espcially the old wooden coaster "Cyclone!"
The rounded southeast corner of the former Shasta Beverage Warehouse (originally a Canada Dry Bottling Plant) at East 28th Street and 36th Avenue South in South Minneapolis shows a bold art moderne profile.
"Each for All, and All for Each"
Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society Department Store (1938-40) by S.W. Ackroyd, Powis St, Woolwich.
Photo taken on a walk around Woolwich with the 20th Century Society on 6th October 2012.
Didn't plan to go back for more photos of this but can't resist :>)! I will create a new set for this Astoria Park public pool with cool streamline modern diving board. Newest news www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/nyregion/diving-board-in-queen...
Gold Medal Gymnastics and a barber shop are the main tenants of a nice streamline moderne building on Main Avenue in downtown Brookings, South Dakota.
and fake Owl -
The abandoned Village Theatre in Faribault, Minnesota
Architect: Perry E. Crosier
"In 1946, Perry Crosier, in association with the firm of Liebenberg & Kaplan, completely remodeled the Village in late Streamline Moderne style. The theater originally opened in the 20s, in a structure dating to the 1890s built as an armory.
The theater survived into the 70s, and after closing, housed a bar and later an appliance store. The former Village was converted into a church a couple years ago, with its lobby and facade restored to their 40s appearance."
On the side of the Park Central Hotel, there was a patio with lovely colored tiles for the pool and a flamingo standing watch with potential guests.
I have another view of this fragile, old time, becoming rare material used in a walkway in Ft. Lauderdale and I saw it used in a hotel lobby for their service desk here on Ocean Dr. in SoBe.
This Oakland California home was renovated back in 2007 after a long period of inattention. Originally constructed in 1936, it was designed by F. Harvey Slocombe.
Tastee 29 Diner. Prefabricatd Streamline Moderne building constructed in 1947. "The prefabricated restaurant section of the Tastee 29 Diner was completely constructed by the Mountain View Diner Company shop site at Signac in northern New Jersey". Note the vintage vehicles. 10536 Fairfax Blvd.
National Register of Historical Places 92001370.