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Union Station, Los Angeles
"In February 2011, the board of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) approved the purchase of Union Station from Prologis and Catellus Development (a descendant of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads) for $75 million."
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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.
Streamline Moderne Historic Monument with ranch style interiors. Vaulted wood beamed u-shaped room. Large. Parking on street. Los Angeles Film Location. Studio City lydeckerhouse@gmail.com
This display was almost too much for me with my love of streamline moderne design ... I felt like I was in heaven :>)
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.
This Streamline Moderne style building was constucted in the late 1930's to house the State's growing bureaucracy. It features horizontal window bands, punctuated by a central entrance bay with vertical emphasis.
Aka The Lawn Road Flats.
Designed in 1934 by Wells Coates, inspired by Bauhaus, this modernist building resides in Belsize Park.
There are 36 flats, 25 of which are to be earmarked for teachers and social workers.
The original colour was a pale pink, but the white does serve to highlight the Streamline Moderne
McPherson's Building, 546-566 Collins Street, Melbourne. Opened 1936. Architects: Stuart P. Calder with Reid & Pearson. Interwar period. Functionalist/Moderne style or streamlined moderne style.
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
I knew about these remaining art deco streamline moderne bus shelters from the 1930's because I stumbled upon them near the Royal Pavilion last visit to Brighton in 2007. They were in better shape 6 years ago, maybe they just need some love and a new coat of paint. The one across the street that houses a public toilet soon to be opened is in better condition but is it as old? Here's the photo from 6 years ago to compare: www.flickr.com/photos/catchesthelight/518057116
The changing rooms and ticket stall at the Astoria Park Pool complex still the original lettering, glass block, design from the 1936 WPA build :>))
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.
The simpler, more aerodynamic structure as well as nautical themed details set Streamline Moderne apart from the contemporary Art Deco designs.
This Streamline Moderne style building was constucted in the late 1930's to house the State's growing bureaucracy. It features horizontal window bands, punctuated by a central entrance bay with vertical emphasis.
Can you see some of the detail better with a little filtering at ps? I will include an old postcard link here so you can compare the renovated art deco hotel with the original: scholar.library.miami.edu/miamidigital/search/allGalleryP...
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.
Midvale, UT
A woman pulling up to a red light actually stopped about 3 car lengths behind the guy in front of her when she saw me setting up this shot. It was a kind gesture and also very reassuring, because I've encountered a larger number of rude drivers in my three days in the greater SLC area than I have in the last YEAR in St. Louis (or on any of my other road trips, so I know it's not just ME being a bad, distracted out-of-town driver and getting appropriately chastised).
All you good Utah drivers (You're still the majority, of course): Am I imagining this, or are there really a lot of jerkwads on your roads?
So I flew in & out of Orlando in June to see my Mom in the north of FL and on my way back went an older "scenic" road and in the midst of terrible thunderstorms took these serendipitous photos of an old dry cleaners. I was really brave folks to get out of my car, a lone woman after dark in this neighborhood and with lightning all around me - no flash here as usual -
A rare example of Streamline Moderne architecture in San Francisco.
I couldn't find who was the original architect.
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
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
Borden's ice cream parlor, Johnston Street, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA.
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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