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Just weeks before this NYC landmark closed its doors after 65 years or so of 1st class food service - This is my favorite shot out of the 20 or so I took and will share with you :>)
Museo de Ciencias Naturales y Antropologicas, Parque General San Martin, Mendoza, Argentina. November 2007
This streamline moderne designed structure was built in 1932 and is 3,546 feet (1081 m) in length. It is the longest span across the Los Angeles River. And it is disintegrating.
Concrete for constructing the bridge had been manufactured on site. An aggregate used in its composition caused the concrete to have a high alkaline content. Because the bridge was built before the concrete Los Angeles River basin was constructed water seepage (from the river) into the alkaline bridge concrete caused it to erode over the decades. The situation is irreversible. And officials say the bridge has a 70% chance of collapsing in a major earthquake.
There are plans to replace the bridge but the city is debating over whether to recreate the original design (with modern technology) or design a modern bridge. The bridges of Los Angeles have a significant history. They represent a time (before urban and suburban sprawl) when it was important to connect the city as a unified whole (a sentiment we should consider trying to revive). Sometimes bridges were built, initially, only for trolley traffic (rather than for personal vehicles) and then later modified to accept both. Los Angeles's bridges also figure prominently in motion pictures and advertising. So it's likely that a replacement strategy won't be easily reached.
California bridge number CA 53C-1880.
photographed Dec 25, 2011, Los Angeles, California
34.03722, -118.23028
Pretty sweet building open for lease. Formerly the headquarters of Doelger Homes, the most prolific builder in the Sunset District, San Francisco. Charles O. Clausen, architect. 1932 3 story building with 1940 addition. #artdeco #streamlinemoderne #doelgerhome
The steel, limestone and granite bus station in Ann Arbor, designed by the Bonfield and Cumming architectural firm, opened in 1940. The Streamline Moderne style building captured the between-the-war's futuristic and optimistic zeitgeist
These railings are found at The Carlyle Hotel on Ocean Dr., Miami Beach. See the in context view here: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/3012208217/
Downtown Phoenix is a lot like downtown Charlotte and downtown Salt Lake City where most of the built environment from the past has been obliterated. Hanny's is an exception and it's been nicely adaptively reused into a restaurant.
Hanny's was designed by local architects Lester & Mahoney and opened in 1947. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places #85002058.
Taylorville, IL
And here's the weird thing: I searched all of the available Taylorville phone books from the era in which a sign such as this would have been made, and couldn't find a business called Lewis. I couldn't find a directory for every year, though, so I'm wondering if Lewis blew all his/their capital on this fancy sign, failed to recoup, and went out of business within a year or two...leaving this fantastic sign to dominate the town square for over half a century and counting.
Carling Brewery's phantom doorway
Belleville, IL
I've been curious about the old Carling bottling works for a while, but it's not easy to find--it was apparently aligned more to a rail line than to the street grid, and it's not on any of the main thoroughfares. So I was kinda excited to spot this "Bottling Plant" entrance off a side street, and... Wait! It vanished!!
I'll have a few more of this hotel coming with its own old cars parked in front as well and I already uploaded one yesterday.
In October 2005, J and I took a weekend trip to Philadelphia. We stayed in the Loew's Hotel, the former 1931 PSFS Building, a moderne landmark with wonderful views. This is the 33rd floor lounge, which has been restored to its original glory.
For an explanation about this building: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/7235107404 (I think my new grandson is on his way in the wee hours of 5/21 :>)
August 22, 2011
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I really liked the strong horizontal lines on this Streamline Moderne building along Richmond, west of Spadina. I loved the green door, but the rest of the colour didn't add much. I also like the long shadows around the door.
Shot through a moving bus window caught me almost unawares:>) This building used to be in Ovingdean but now Ovingdean is part of Brighton - anyway, it was a complete happy surprise to me! "Blind Veterans UK opened its flagship training, convalescent, care and holiday centre in Ovingdean, Brighton in 1938. The Brighton centre was one of the very first buildings in Britain purpose-built for those with a disability and every aspect of its construction was specially designed for blind and partially sighted visitors and residents. Shortly after its opening, the Architect and Building News praised the centre’s "magnificent views over the Downs and out to sea", as well as the thought that had gone into making the building ideal for the blind. The centre's residents included World War I veteran Henry Allingham, born 1896, who was briefly the oldest man in the world until his death in 2009." Wikipedia
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St. Louis
Funny thing about this building: The rounded corners of the "wings" and the glass-block-rich stair enclosures give it a lot of character 'round the edges, but the center of the facade--where one might expect a spectacular gesture of some kind--is disappointingly bland.
The Bullock's Pasadena building was built in 1944 and was designed by Walter Wurdemen & Welton Becket. When I was a child, this was my mother's favorite place to shop, and we visited the store countless times in the late 1950s through the 1960s. Since the 1980s, the store has undergone several changes of ownership, and today is owned and operated by Macy's.
In September, 2011, I made a pilgrimage of sorts to the old Bullock's Pasadena, and was amazed to discover that the building has been meticulously conserved; its architectural and interior design elements remaining largely unchanged over the last 50 years.
This photo depicts the northeast exterior of the building, looking westward from the sidewalk of South Lake Avenue.
Macy's Pasadena Plaza on Lake Avenue, Pasadena, CA, September 22, 2011.
This photo had 1 view during the time it was posted on my ashetlandpony Flickr account.
A Streamline Modern gas station.
My dad snapped this in Mexico in 1962. Note the 1957 Ford Fairlane.
[Original comment: I don't know what kind of car this is. If anyone knows, please let me know! It is something like a 1959 Pontiac Star Chief, but not enough.]
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)
Classic Sea-View room #118 at the refurbished Midland Hotel, Morecambe. The interior design features an innovative wood module concealing the bathroom, wardrobe, television and fridge.
Look closely at the grating in the shower floor and you will see the sea-horse motif, originally designed by Marion Dorn and used as the hotel's signature emblem 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.
1941, Harold G. Stoner for the Stoneson Brothers real estate development group
see www.examiner.com/x-26565-SF-Architecture-Examiner~y2009m1...
Harold G. Stoner: www.mtdavidson.org/harold_g._stoner
Many of Sydney's art house theatres are shutting down (the Valhalla just closed last week), but this one still has some life in it.
Since I last spent a decent amount of time here, about 12 years ago, heaps of theatres have been mothballed. At the same time, the bootleg DVD market seems very robust. Hardly a coincidence.
Surprising find of a streamline moderne former train depot in Nyssa, Oregon. The depot appears to now be a private business. The rail line is Union Pacific. I could find no information on the depot itself.
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.
Salisbury, MO
Here's a nice example of a pre-WWII facelift that gave an old building a fairly modern look for probably not a lot of cash. The little "cut" corners on the windows make all the difference, stylistically!
Construction Materials Co.
St. Louis, MO
I'm pretty sure this building was still standing until the shopping center at Kingshighway and Chippewa started taking shape.
From an ad in the Missouri Athletic Club's 50th anniversary book (1953).
I like the person in the photo - I'm not one of those exclusively architectural photographers and I don't do crowds well but a lone pedestrian is fun!
Now I am assuming the black shiny tiles here are vitrolite. I wish the parked car in front of the building hadn't shown up so reflectively, but I guess that's what a glass product will do!
A quiet little gem tucked away between Washington Ave. and Collins Ave. on my way from Lincoln Rd on James St.
“Ibex House is probably the largest surviving example of Streamline Moderne, a short-lived form of Art Deco seen in the mid to late 1930s, mostly used in London by an entire generation of Odeon cinemas, but most famously by the Daily Express Building.
“Upon completion Ibex House boasted the longest continuous glass curtain walls in the United Kingdom along its H plan footprint.
“Also cladding Ibex House are horizontal cream ceramic bands of buff, and strips of black faience running upwards adding a vertical element, plus curving corners characteristic of Streamline Moderne.
“Of particular note is the curving glass staircase set on the southern side of the building that continues to project out past the upper set backs of the building. It serves not only to provide access up through the centre of the building, but unlike the identical north one, also helps work as an informal viewing area for the buildings occupants looking south towards the Tower of London and Tower Bridge.
“When it opened in 1937, rents for Ibex House were six shillings per square foot.”
Source: Skyscraper News
This pier was built in 1935 and is a fine example of the style of architecture which I believe is called Streamline Moderne, a development of late Art Deco.
It looks quite summery here, but Worthing had 3 inches of snow two days earlier! Ah, the English weather ...
J. Arthur Dixon mode again here, I think, something about the colouring.
Los Angeles Fire Station #1, on Pasadena Ave in Lincoln Heights area. Streamline moderne architecture, built by the WPA during the New Deal.
A last look at the old diving board with other vertical, horizontal and angled lines to add unrelenting (lines) interest :>))) Newest news www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/nyregion/diving-board-in-queen...