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Art deco / streamline moderne style Freemason's Hospital building, Cnr Albert and Clarendon Streets, East Melbourne, Victoria. Built 1935. Architect: Sir Arthur George Stephenson.
Art deco / streamline moderne style Freemason's Hospital building, Cnr Albert and Clarendon Streets, East Melbourne, Victoria. Built 1935. Architect: Sir Arthur George Stephenson.
Art deco / streamline moderne style Freemason's Hospital building, Cnr Albert and Clarendon Streets, East Melbourne, Victoria. Built 1935. Architect: Sir Arthur George Stephenson.
Sandoval, IL
Stitched together from four separate photos because I couldn't back up far enough to get the whole building in one shot! This method also enabled me to get a couple of cars and light posts out of the picture, so I think it worked out OK.
I heard, by the way, that years ago this one dude was trippin' on something and jumped off the roof of either the gym or the auditorium, thinking he could fly.
He couldn't.
This is a detail from the entrance to Disney's Hollywood Studios, Orlando. It is a reproduction of a steamship modern masterpiece set afire by some scumbag in 1989. The original stood just east of CBS Studio City where I last saw it in 1975, it was the Pan Pacific Auditorium, 7600 W Beverly Blvd in LA.
Close-up of one of the custom-designed 1940s-moderne barber chairs. Note the "B" for Bullock's in the armrest.
Macy's Pasadena Plaza on Lake Avenue, Pasadena, CA, September 22, 2011.
This photo had 6 views during the time it was posted on my ashetlandpony Flickr account.
I took more photos of this art deco theater in 2008, here: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/3215161837/ & here: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/3215161651/
(added bonus: to see how they keep those rounded windows clean :>)...And modernist or moderne or deco or artdeco or international or cubist or Bauhaus or whatever lovely labels anyone gives this 1930's architecture!!
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
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.
Sacramento, California; known for its Streamline Moderne architectural style, the bridge was built in 1934-35. The vertical lift bridge spans the Sacramento River near downtown.
Now "the hotel" but once the Tiffany Hotel on Collins Ave. in Miami Beach. www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/3046015824/in/set-7...
The Cameo Theatre opened in 1940 and served Orlando's Colonialtown neighborhood. It appears that the theater closed soon afterwards for the duration of World War II, but reopened in 1947. The theater closed again for good during or before the 60s.
Colonial Drive (US 17-92) near Mills, Orlando.
Great curved balconies, portholes, and a sleepy, leafy courtyard for these historic apartments on Gao'an Road. Nice!
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 138, designed around existing buildings in 1936 by Robert V. Derrah.
Last light. Cool portholes and curved balconies of these historic Art Deco apartments on Changshu Road. At one time in recent history the apartments were an old folks home according the security guard. Today, Nov 2007, they are mostly empty.
in Albuquerque, New Mexico
DRI from 5 images with different exposure times
Update June 29 2006: This picture made it to the Schmap Guide for Albuquerque!
www.schmap.com/app/photos.do;jsessionid=4F2BB292D448C0DBA...
1939, Timothy Pflueger, Arthur Brown, Jr., John J. Donovan
Closed yesterday, August 6, 2010. Photos are from August 1st.
Slated for demolition.
www.examiner.com/x-11025-Bay-Area-Public-Transportation-E...
historic background:
www.verlang.com/sfbay0004ref_20thc_012.html#425_mission
flickr group
www.flickr.com/groups/transbayterminal/
official redevelopment website - a bunch of flash animations :-(
"Marine Court"
"This art-deco project on the seafront, locally known as 'the Skyscraper', was built to resemble the superstructure of the Queen Mary, a passenger line. In 1937, when it was completed, it housed 153 flats and 3 restaurants. It was the tallest block of flats in the United Kingdom.
In the 1960s it was home to The Cobweb, also known as the Witch Doctor – a nightclub that saw Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and other luminaries play.
Though a listed building, it is in a poor state of repair and awaiting the outcome of planning enquiries. The general condition of the exterior has suffered from the sea air and general neglect; the shop fronts on the ground floor have had their external finishing altered and changed. It has a number of inappropriate modern double glazed, plastic framed windows out of keeping with the original 'Crittall' style frames. Although it may look good from Hastings and the A259, it’s just a shabby block of flats if you look at it from St. Leonards." nicebrighton.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/the-history-of-st-l...
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 138, designed around existing buildings in 1936 by Robert V. Derrah.
Fmr. Central Union Terminal (now Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza); built 1947-1950; Robert Crosbie, architect. This was among the last of the major train stations built by the New York Central Railroad. The following trains stop here: Amtrak’s Capitol Limited and Lake Shore Limited.
Although all the rooms of the Rone - Empire installation exhibition are amazing for many different reasons, there are two major standouts. The Study is one of them. It 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.
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 is one. 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.
Side view of this neat art deco building (undergoing what looks like a complete renovation). Great lines! Wavey!
This is taken from inside the McAlpin looking out at the deco concrete railing I photographed in '08, Ocean Dr. & Miami Beach.
Scan of a photo I took in 1995 of the art deco Post Office in Hagerstown, MD., which was built in 1935-37.
The Alabama Theatre, at 2922 South Shepherd, opened in 1939 with a screening of Man About Town. The theater was designed in the art deco-streamline moderne style by W. Scott Dune. The theater eventually closed as a The theater has been adapted and as part of the Alabama Shepherd Shopping Center, has been home to Houston's first Trader Joe's since 2012.
Mexico City est. 1325/1521, pop. 21.2MM • La Condesa • Eclectico in the City -LA Times
• Edificio Basurto (1942-1945), 14-story Moderne apartment building designed by Francisco J. Serrano (1900-1982)
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 138, designed around existing buildings in 1936 by Robert V. Derrah.
I have always loved glass block and am amazed at how they can get a rounded look overall with something so square :>)
..."wooden shacks were banned from the outset and some of the early buildings followed the then fashionable Bauhaus, Cubist and Art Deco designs of the period, both the Lido and former Ocean Hotel are particularly prominent landmarks."
I walked around the Astoria NYC vintage public pool taking about 30 photos last May. I will link this group to other years and other years to here: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/2805542137/ Newest news www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/nyregion/diving-board-in-queen...