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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"
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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."
The Arcade Theater Building in St. Charles (1926). It was designed as a 1,000 seat venue for vaudeville acts. George Burns and Edgar Bergen were among the many stars to visit. The theater was restored in 1993 to its original appearance. Since 2001, it has operated as a live performance venue.
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.
Last time I didn't even give the Clinton Hotel its own photo but combined it with The Chelsea in a collage just for fun :>)
The sleek streamline moderne Hollywood Theater on Johnson Street in northeast Minneapolis features was designed by local architects Liebenberg & Kaplan and opened in 1935. Featuring a facade of Kasota limestone, this designated city landmark awaits redevelopment.
A rare example of Streamline Moderne architecture in San Francisco.
I couldn't find who was the original architect.
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.
Left vs. Right
Weight: 3,354 lbs. vs. 5040 lbs.
Efficiency: 99 mpg (equiv.) vs. maybe 16.
Range (full charge/tank): 73 miles vs. maybe 400.
Cost to drive 25 miles: $1.02 vs. maybe $6.00.
Disney California Adventure entrance gate. Streamline Moderne theming after the Pan-Pacific Auditorium.
I really don't like red as a color but it does stand out in any photo that is even slightly saturated, even the red parts you don't want to stand out like the modern car behind my interior chair subject!
Inside the South Beach Beach Patrol Headquarters - not too much of interest besides shapes and lines here -
I have more art deco door handles in my photostream, especially in Quebec City: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/2991338125/in/set-7...
I like industrial modern design as showcased in this "showcase" :>)) www.wolfsonian.org/explore/collections/travel-iron