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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
The Weis Theatre opened in 1946 and lasted until 1980. The Savannah College of Art and Design took over and renovated the theater, while renaming it the Trustees Theater. The building is currently used for movies, live performances, and school-related functions.
Broughton Street, Savannah.
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...
Perhaps the last of my study in the concrete fencing art deco details on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach.
The Savannah Theatre is located on the oldest-operating theater site in the United States, with a legitimate theater first opening on the corner back in 1818. The modern Savannah opened 1948 and played regular fare until 1981, when it was sold to a theater group. It appears to be used as a live venue today, but I don't know if any movies are still screened here every now and then. Regardless, the Savannah exists as a fine example of Art Moderne architecture.
Bull Street at McDonough, Savannah.
Please view and enjoy my last few hours of photographing 9-24-08 in a dreamy beyond imagination place :>)!
Dusk in South Beach at the end of my grand architectural tour and now I'm spotting cultural details :>)))))
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.
CN No. 5723 (GMD SD75I) and CN No. 2020 (GE C40-8) pull Birmingham Southern Railroad No. 219 (EMD SW1001) and an eastbound freight train past the Toledo Amtrak Station.
Art deco / streamline moderne style Freemason's Hospital building, Cnr Albert and Clarendon Streets, East Melbourne, Victoria. Built 1935. Architect: Sir Arthur George Stephenson.
Please view any and all of my Miami Beach South Beach beach or art deco architecture photos - I'll be back later to write more :>)
If Eli Mizrachi has his way, the Streamline Moderne theatre (designed by S. Charles Lee) will be demolished to make way for a high-rise office building.
www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/feb/28/historic-huntridge-c...
Built 1932 at Pier 10, originally as a shipping office. Listed in 2001 and opened in 2005 as the Restaurant Pier. Now operating as a sandwich shop. De Ruijterkade Steiger 10, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
This beautiful Streamline Moderne building was built in 1938 using funds from the Public Works Administration (WPA), a New Deal agency. It served as the town's library and Community Center until 2014.
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 183, designed by Plummer, Wurdeman, and Becketin 1935, demolished in 1992 following a 1989 fire.
I just like the design features like the curved vs. the straight lines, etc. Newest news www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/nyregion/diving-board-in-queen...
I found it and would love to know how to buy it and bring it back to its 1940 glory - These are my favorite photos from Brunswick, GA!:>)!:>)!
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.