[LostInTheZone]

post pics of your favorites, the best your city has to offer, or overlooked gems:

A few of my picks out of what I consider the best architectural style for skyscrapers:

Carbide & Carbon Building, Michigan Ave, Chicago. Green brick and 24k gold on the crown. According to legend the architects got the idea from a champagne bottle:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/15/Carbon_jc01.jpg/156px-Carbon_jc01.jpg

http://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Images/TheLoop/CarbideAndCarbon-002.jpghttp://www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Images/TheLoop/CarbideAndCarbon-003.jpg

Eastern Columbia Building, Broadway, Los Angeles: blue terra cotta!

http://www.easterncolumbialofts.com/html/images/side/home.jpghttp://www.latimemachines.com/P1300136.JPG
http://www.latimemachines.com/P1300138.JPG

American International Building (70 Pine Street), NYC Financial District:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v353/naptown05/263235.jpg

The Deco is in the Details: model of the building carved into the limestone entrance facade, and lamps, in aluminum:

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/SCC010-70pine6031.jpghttp://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/Pict0473.jpghttp://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/Pict0468.jpghttp://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/Pict0471.jpg

can you spot the now-closed obervation deck? Imagine the penthouses you could get, with those terraces, if this building was converted to residential. It's 952 feet to the tip of the flagpole:

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/SCC010G2.jpg

Cushman liked it, back when it was the tallest building downtown:

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SCC/SCC010-A03.jpg

The Hotel Carlyle, Madison Avenue, Upper East Side NYC; google wasn't returning a lot of pics, but it really does stand out at night, seen from Central Park:

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/UES/main4.jpg
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/UES/main7.jpg

http://members.aol.com/nycskyscrp/hotels/carlyle.jpg

The GE Building (570 Lexington Avenue): behind St. Bart's, across the street from the Waldorf=Astoria:

http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/manhattan/midtown/sidestreets/east51st/04ge.jpghttp://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/manhattan/midtown/sidestreets/east51st/03geclose.jpg

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID017-A01.jpg

might have the most interesting crown of any skyscraper- gothic tracery reinterpreted as radio waves:

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/570lexington_main1.jpghttp://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/MID017-570Lex_2.jpghttp://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/017_GEBUILD.jpg

this building drips with detail:

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/21520266.jpghttp://www.nyc-architecture.com/MID/570lexington_main3.jpg

[MolsonExport]

Without a doubt, Art Deco is my favourite ever architectural style.

[LostInTheZone]

the once and future Boyd Theater, most recently the Sameric:

http://www.robbender.com/gallery/albums/boyd/IMG_2068.sized.jpg

like so many Philadelphia buildings, it isn't much to look at from the outside, but it has a nearly 100% intact art deco interior: colored frosted glass, exetic marble, metalwork, the whole shebang:

lobby:

http://www.robbender.com/gallery/albums/boyd/P1010483.sized.jpg

http://www.robbender.com/gallery/albums/boyd/P1010533.sized.jpg

http://www.robbender.com/gallery/albums/boyd/P7230135_1.sized.jpg

http://www.robbender.com/gallery/albums/boyd/P5043895.sized.jpg

http://www.robbender.com/gallery/albums/boyd/P1010478.sized.jpg

auditorium:

http://www.robbender.com/gallery/albums/boyd/CRW_2991.sized.jpg

http://www.robbender.com/gallery/albums/boyd/CRW_3086.sized.jpg

it was within weeks of being demolished a few years ago, when the movie theater closed down, but now it's being restored as a music venue (by Clearchannel, but it beats losing it)

more pics (http://www.robbender.com/gallery/boyd?page=1)

[hauntedheadnc]

Art deco is my city's signature style! These are some of the fantastic pics that SSP forumer Four 0 Four took when he was here in July.

City Hall

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/MarkPMA/ashville109.jpg

First Baptist Church

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/MarkPMA/ashville68.jpg

Woolworth Building

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/MarkPMA/ashville103.jpg

S&W Cafeteria Building

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/MarkPMA/ashville32.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/MarkPMA/ashville34.jpg

Some building whose name I have forgotten

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/MarkPMA/ashville20.jpg

Asheville High School

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v491/MarkPMA/ashville89.jpg

[JManc]

there is art deco and there is everything else. i wish i could have lived when it was still in its heyday. can't think of anything art deco in houston but syracuse, NY probably has one of the finest examples:

http://jbsk.cafe24.com/bbs/data/album_syracuse/DSC00528.jpg

[SuperstarMark]

I am going to cream my pants looking at this thread. :stunned: KEEP THE PHOTOS COMING.

[SuperstarMark]

Here are a few photos I took of Denver's AT&T Building, last month. Perhaps a Denverite can give more color background on this gem - I think it's absolutely stunning. I wasn't allowed to take photos inside, but the lobby looked fantastic.


http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b364/SuperstarMark/Denver100.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b364/SuperstarMark/Denver102.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b364/SuperstarMark/Denver103.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b364/SuperstarMark/Denver104.jpg

[Boris2k7]

Calgary's Barron Building

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/86/10532879273ac9987bfzk8.jpg
Photo Courtesy of Flickr

Started in 1949 and finished in 1951
Barron building played a significant role in establishing Calgary as the provincial capital of the oil industry. The office district that subsequently developed in the western end of downtown became known as the "Oil Patch"
http://www.calgarypubliclibrary.com/calgary/historic_tours/corner/bb.htm

[vid]

The Royal Eddie Hotel, the most prominent Art Deco building in the Northwest. (Of Ontario.)

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/7589/artdtbaywh4.jpg

The queen stayed there. :)

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/5187/335804948jpgob3.jpg

The rear end!

[MayDay]

jmancuso posted one of my absolute favorites - the Niagara-Mohawk Building in Syracuse, NY.

Some examples of Art Deco from Northeast Ohio:

One of the four Guardians of Transportation and the Ohio Bell Huron Building:
http://www.clevelandskyscrapers.com/July30Walk/0730walk65.jpg

Akron's First National Tower:
http://www.clevelandskyscrapers.com/akron/firstnational.jpg

Youngstown's Metropolitan Bank Tower:
http://www.clevelandskyscrapers.com/youngstown/mettowerytown2.jpg

http://www.clevelandskyscrapers.com/youngstown/mettowerfacade.jpg

And one of my favorites from Cincinnati, the Orchid Room at the Netherland Hilton Hotel:
http://urbanohio.com/OhioSkylinesPics/SWOhio/Cincinnati/Neighborhoods/Downtown/Downtown44.JPG

http://urbanohio.com/SWOhio/Cincinnati/Neighborhoods/Downtown/Palm4.jpg

[Arriviste]

Calgary's Barron Building

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/86/10532879273ac9987bfzk8.jpg
Photo Courtesy of Flickr

Started in 1949 and finished in 1951

http://www.calgarypubliclibrary.com/calgary/historic_tours/corner/bb.htm

The Barron building, although quite nice with some attractive and fascinating details hardly qualifies as Art Deco. It is more art Moderne if you want to get picky.Calgary's only example of Deco is The Bank of Nova Scotia on 8th Ave.
It doesn't even qualify in all fields.

[rockyi]

Some examples of Art Deco around the Quad Cities (not a lot of skyscrapers though)

Rock Island High School.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/Dcp_0668.jpg

Details, Rock Island H.S.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/Dcp_0669.jpg

5th Ave. Building, Moline, IL
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/Dcp_0844.jpg

Details, 5th Ave. Building.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/Dcp_0850.jpg

Signage, Davenport, IA
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/020_17A.jpg

Adler Theater and Mississippi Hotel, Davenport, IA
http://www.cinematour.com/location/usa/ia/touria/davadl03.jpg

Inside the Adler
http://i.pbase.com/u12/affablebeef/large/21769888.davenportiaadlerorpheumhouse.jpg

http://mk23.image.pbase.com/u12/affablebeef/large/21769887.davenportiaadlerorpheumhallway.jpg

Details
http://k47.pbase.com/u12/affablebeef/large/21769883.davenportiaadlerorpheumchandalier2c.jpg

Lobby Ceiling
http://mishami.image.pbase.com/u12/affablebeef/large/21769884.davenportiaadlerorpheumchandalier3b.jpg

[rockyi]

I'll bump up this purdy thread with a detail shot of this fairly early example of Art Deco (1926) in downtown Rock Island. (It looks like the Royal Neighbors of America sign was added in the 1980's)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/004_33.jpg

[Skyliner]

Greenville's most prominent display of Art Deco was actually not built until the late 1990's. Poinsett Plaza (http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=127347) is a 13-story office tower that houses the headquarters for The South Financial Group, and has luxury condominiums in the tops floors.

In this photo, Poinsett Plaza is the tower peeking out from the right:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y100/Skyliner25/Downtown_01.jpg

[LMich]

My favorites of Detroit:

David Stott Building

http://static.flickr.com/31/40004424_ca5ff3bef7_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/9/15818387_707b47358e_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/10/15808701_bc775f493c_b.jpg

Penobscot Building - a less frilly art deco

http://static.flickr.com/32/67285673_88919383ab_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/26/52831638_a9129cfb3a_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/67/179500548_e17ce9bd02_o.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/5/5391349_e2f94c2ded_b.jpg

Guardian Building

http://static.flickr.com/78/223266348_0a255d99fa_o.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/45/166574396_f77fc87abc_o.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/6/69592979_55ed77c964_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/6/5553524_57ac25a88f_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/47/116456337_20cccee362_b.jpg

Fisher Building

http://static.flickr.com/33/53176194_929dd8a970_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/45/111737548_56abf1688b_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/40/81670667_a66fb1f04a_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/66/203816119_20ad1a8b73_o.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/54/111737621_5b06302578_b.jpg

[LouisianaRush]

Louisiana's state captiol:
http://www.soulofamerica.com/images2/photosla2/Louisiana_State_Capitol.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/10/15572981_ce89cb8534.jpg?v=0
http://static.flickr.com/13/15572774_17129aa12d.jpg?v=0

[UptownChiBoy]

Chicago:

London Guarantee Building. Built in 1923.

http://80.65.232.176/Photos/00/00/09/40/ME0000094092_3.JPG

http://tinypic.com/1ivio

35 East Wacker Drive. Built in 1927.

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/naptown89/chicago0134.jpg

http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/5543/53062654aff8e72617cr9.jpg
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8626/3315905229bw700hv7.jpg
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8207/150202261c189edad2abhz5.jpg

Merchandise Mart Built in 1930.

http://tinypic.com/1o165t

http://tinypic.com/1o16h5

http://tinypic.com/1o16bo

Civic Opera Building. Built in 1929.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/krzycho/wiezowce/
P6110034.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/krzycho/wiezowce/P6110068.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v514/krzycho/wiezowce/P6110069.jpg

Tribune Tower Built in 1925

http://www.pbase.com/image/34240946.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/34240945.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/34241058.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/james2390/SSC%20stuff/BlackandWhiteTribune.jpg

http://www.maj.com/gallery/DecoJim/Chicago/tribunetower04.jpg

[LostInTheZone]

You're a bit confused. All of the pics you posted, with the exception of the Tribune building, are classic examples of beaux-arts, but they are decidedly not deco.

The Merchandise Mart is a good, if conservative, example. Anyone have pics from nighttime?

[Buckeye Native 001]

By far my favorite style of architecture!

Some from my hometown:

Cincinnati's tallest, the 574-foot Carew Tower
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/oh/hamilton/postcards/fntsq2.jpg

http://kevinmonroephotography.com/photos/images/news/carew.tower.daytime.jpg

The Museum Center at Union Terminal
http://members.nuvox.net/~on.bernard/Mvc-065x.jpg

[JManc]

i think the tribute tower would be considered neo-gothic along the likes of the woolworth building.

[LMich]

Yeah, the Tribune is definitely a solid Neo-Gothic design.

[GeorgeLV]

The old Las Vegas High School is probably the best surviving example of Art Deco in Las Vegas.

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4130/51932pccj8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

We are making some Art Moderne additions to the skyline though...

Allure Towers
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/2290/ghj1jf.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[EtherealMist]

great thread, Art Deco is definitely my favorite type of architecture.

I really like the first pics you showed of that building in Chicago. It reminds me alot of the Radiator Building in NYC:

http://www.myfourthirds.com/files/1160/_P090353gRGBORF.jpg

http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwher/courses/8690/radiator/2.jpg

[Grumpy]

This is by far my favourite architecture.
Excellent thread !!

[Bergenser]

wow what a thread! what a thread! :D :D :D keep the photos going!

[DJM19]

Los Angeles All Dec'd Out

Eastern Columbia Building
http://www.you-are-here.com/downtown/1930_eastern_columbia.jpg

Title Guarantee Building
http://www.you-are-here.com/downtown/1930_title_guarantee.jpg

Robinson's Department Store
http://www.you-are-here.com/downtown/1914_robinson.jpg

Bullock's Wilshire
http://www.you-are-here.com/building/1927_bullocks.jpg

LA County Medical Center
http://www.you-are-here.com/building/medical.jpg

Wiltern Theater
http://www.you-are-here.com/building/1929_wiltern.jpg


Thats a taste

[anm]

I love this thread

[ltsmotorsport]

Los Angeles All Dec'd Out

Eastern Columbia Building
http://www.you-are-here.com/downtown/1930_eastern_columbia.jpg

Title Guarantee Building
http://www.you-are-here.com/downtown/1930_title_guarantee.jpg

Robinson's Department Store
http://www.you-are-here.com/downtown/1914_robinson.jpg

Bullock's Wilshire
http://www.you-are-here.com/building/1927_bullocks.jpg

LA County Medical Center
http://www.you-are-here.com/building/medical.jpg

Wiltern Theater
http://www.you-are-here.com/building/1929_wiltern.jpg


Thats a taste
I was really surprised by the amount of deco in LA the first time I went. Very nice examples, and it's definatly my favorite style of architecture.

[Evergrey]

Pittsburgh's two most prominent examples of art-deco are side-by-side downtown...

Gulf at left (582 ft.) and Koppers at right (475 ft)

http://i.pbase.com/g3/86/571686/2/66650614.pcVoiNHE.jpg

[John R]

Fort Worth's Art Deco Treasures:

Texas & Pacific Railway Terminal:
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/tp.jpg

http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/tpint-2.jpg

http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/tpint-1.jpg

The T&P's nearby warehouse:
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/tandpware2.jpg

The Sinclair Building:
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/sinclair.jpg

http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/sinclair-night.jpg

http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/sinclair-entry.jpg

http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/sinclair-n.jpg

http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/sinclair-int.jpg

The Courtyard By Marriott Blackstone Hotel:
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/blackstone2.jpg

Masonic Temple:
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/masonictemple.jpg

Lone Star Gas:
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/gas.jpg

Public Safety and Courts Building:
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/oldcityh.jpg

The Commerce Building:
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/commerce2.jpg

Historic Electric Building Apartments and inside is a mothballed Art Deco Theater:
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/electric.jpg

U.S. Courthouse:
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/uscourt1.jpg

Western Union:
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/wunion2.jpg

The Petroleum Building (currently being restored)
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/rattikin.jpg

Central Fire Station:
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/c-fire-2.jpg

http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/centralfire2.jpg

A few years later, in 1936, the same architect designed the Will Rogers Memorial Center which featured a coliseum, an auditorium, and an ornamental tower. The coliseum was the first arched steel truss domed building built in the U.S. This building is the forerunner to our domed arenas and stadiums.
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/cd/willrogers2.jpg

I've only posted the most notable structures. There actually are many more throughout the city.

[LostInTheZone]

I was really surprised by the amount of deco in LA the first time I went. Very nice examples, and it's definatly my favorite style of architecture.

this is really LA's chance to shine. Los Angeles was THE place to be in the 30s, so saw a lot more construction during that time than many other cities.

Really appreciate the Detroit pics too, especially the Guardian and Fisher buildings.

[Marcu]

Miami Beach has some of the country's best art deco

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/images/bfl3221.jpg

http://www.planetware.com/i/photo/art-deco-district-miami-beach-flmb3.jpg

http://martina.shk.ca/album/ArtDecoTour2.jpg

http://www.jankaulins.com/images/categories/39.jpg

[LMich]

A few more of Detroit's smaller Deco's, mostly the Moorish take on Deco:

http://static.flickr.com/64/168102254_e835e944dd_o.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/77/178435257_2cd692a4c2_o.jpg

Detroit Mackenzie High School

http://static.flickr.com/13/16712391_f6210a3f96_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/1/122192618_2a6f268039_b.jpg

Maccabees Building Detroit

http://static.flickr.com/28/37441540_c6c2788cd1_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/33/100995141_7b33ae72b3_o.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/25/100995140_e6f32dd562_o.jpg

Detroit Water Board Building

http://static.flickr.com/21/28409687_d3395a7873_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/32/94851955_fb91295926_b.jpg

Skillman Branch - Detroit Public Library - Downtown Branch

http://static.flickr.com/57/211388169_48762ac457_b.jpg

Fox Theater

http://static.flickr.com/36/94855781_8f3ec97778_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/29/51462525_e745412d74_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/30/50097596_2520b9796e_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/26/50377861_9394c12b16_b.jpg

[rockyi]

http://static.flickr.com/47/116456337_20cccee362_b.jpg

Wow! This is fantastic. Is this lobby in the Guardian Building?

[LMich]

Yes, I think I put it under the Guardian Building label, too, though.

The Guardian Building's retail arcade:

http://static.flickr.com/9/85082609_2065eca2b1_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/43/85082606_738d552993_b.jpg

An elevator bank

http://static.flickr.com/40/83950408_69fce2bbf9_b.jpg

Crown

http://static.flickr.com/65/179125047_e919d68d94_b.jpg

Entrance on Griswold

http://static.flickr.com/42/83950281_eb3cac23d6_b.jpg

They call this "Aztec Deco."

[JManc]

^ umm...wow! next time i am in detroit...must visit this building

[Don Pacho]

Love this thread.
I have some pics to share...


:)

[Don Pacho]

Some Art Deco buildings in South Miami Beach


http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/9194/artdecomiamibeach01sha1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/9247/artdecomiamibeach02sba2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

:tup:

.

[Jeff_in_Dayton]

Deco was a popular style in Ohio. Mayday posts some good ones.

Here is another one from Cincinnati, but it was not a skyscraper.

http://www.cincy.com/photos/images/news/union_terminal.jpg

..a sample of the interior:

http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ohio/cincy/rrstation/int.jpg

http://pipedreams.publicradio.org/gallery/pix/midwest/ohio/cincinnati_museumconcertlg.jpg

http://www.decopix.com/New%20Site/Images/Murals/Cin_Term_ladies_rm.jpg

[Alibaba]

When i think of Deco - Miami came to mind
but i realised other cities can boast their own collections..

thanks for sharing.... !

[CGII]

The Barron building, although quite nice with some attractive and fascinating details hardly qualifies as Art Deco. It is more art Moderne if you want to get picky.Calgary's only example of Deco is The Bank of Nova Scotia on 8th Ave.
It doesn't even qualify in all fields.
If you want to get even pickier, Art Moderne is an offshoot of Art Deco architecture. If you want to get so literal as to disqualify the said building from the Art Deco style, I might as well bring up Art Deco in its original form, at the Paris World Fair of Arts Decoratifs, which is true and pure Art Deco. It featured awkwardly propotioned buildings that otherwise followed the vernacular of the time, with the exception of more unusual, streamlined elements of detail, which covered most of the buildings. Art Moderne was essentially America's spin on the earlier, more raw French original, exaggerating forms into more streamlined, refined masses and more proportioned detail and expression of structural elements, as well as more industrial forms (Art Deco is to Art Moderne as Daniel Burnham is to Louis Sullivan, if you will). If you're going to discount that one building as 'Moderne' and thus not Art Deco, you might as well remove virtually every building posted here in this thread as 'Moderne,' including the Chrysler Building.

Some Art Moderne, just for you:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/cph/3b10000/3b12000/3b12400/3b12479r.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/51/118332887_26cccfd2c2_m.jpg
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1157_art_deco/img/about/p_barkers.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Hoover_Building_1.jpg
http://www.perivale.co.uk/images/hoover-building-pic3-448-336.jpg
http://www.swlondon.nhs.uk/resourcelib/Architecture_Battersea_Power_Station.gif
http://gallery.actsofvolition.com/files/original/photo39728.jpg
http://www2.nau.edu/~twp/architecture/artdeco/artdeco002.jpg
http://www.routledge-ny.com/ref/architecture/images/gallery/large/pg198_lg.jpg
A precursor to Art Moderne, though stylistically it is eerily fitting to the title of Art Moderne
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/EEI/MASONRY/39larkin.jpg

[i_am_hydrogen]

The cover of Floyd's "Animals"

http://www.swlondon.nhs.uk/resourcelib/Architecture_Battersea_Power_Station.gif

[Jeff_in_Dayton]

^
Oh yes, the excellent Battersea Power Station. Actually there has some interesting Deco buildings in London...Shell House is another.

For Ohio Deco, even smaller cities had their little Art Deco towers. You can see two on this old postcard from Mansfield, Ohio

http://www.ci.mansfield.oh.us/images/old-skyline.jpg


And here is a "baby art deco skyscraper" from Middletown, Ohio

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/Jeff59c/Middletown/Downtown1.jpg

The tallest building in Dayton until the 1950s, the Hulman Building, is also Art Deco...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v240/Jeff59c/MLK%20Day/MLKDay5.jpg

[i_am_hydrogen]

Wisconsin Gas Building in Milwaukee (the flame on top glows according to the coming weather: gold=cold, red=warm, blue=no change, flashing=precipitation). It reminds me of the building in the movie Ghostbusters.

http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/sixwm/2002/06/152157.jpg

http://www2.jsonline.com/news/image00/gasbig091900.jpg

[gpkdog]

I'm suprised no one has mentioned this one yet:

Buffalo City Hall, Buffalo NY

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/gpkeppel/cityhall1.jpg

And the long abandoned Buffalo Central Terminal

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/gpkeppel/132698188_l.jpg

[Marcu]

Urbana, IL (home of U. of Illinois along with Champaign, IL)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Cinema_cafe_Urbana_IL.jpg/256px-Cinema_cafe_Urbana_IL.jpg

[Alibaba]

my local cinema RIVOLI - Melbourne

http://www.caths.org.au/rivoli.htm


http://www.caths.org.au/stairs2.jpg


http://www.caths.org.au/rivolcin.jpg

http://www.caths.org.au/rivfoyer.jpg


http://www.caths.org.au/sketch.jpg

[SuperstarMark]

LMich - your Detroit photos - perfection.

Everyone - awesome job!

John R - the FW terminal, is it in use at all? In the exterior shot, it looks like it's not. I just love the detail in this photo:


http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/tpint-2.jpg

[Arriviste]

If you want to get even pickier, Art Moderne is an offshoot of Art Deco architecture. If you want to get so literal as to disqualify the said building from the Art Deco style, I might as well bring up Art Deco in its original form, at the Paris World Fair of Arts Decoratifs, which is true and pure Art Deco. It featured awkwardly propotioned buildings that otherwise followed the vernacular of the time, with the exception of more unusual, streamlined elements of detail, which covered most of the buildings. Art Moderne was essentially America's spin on the earlier, more raw French original, exaggerating forms into more streamlined, refined masses and more proportioned detail and expression of structural elements, as well as more industrial forms (Art Deco is to Art Moderne as Daniel Burnham is to Louis Sullivan, if you will). If you're going to discount that one building as 'Moderne' and thus not Art Deco, you might as well remove virtually every building posted here in this thread as 'Moderne,' including the Chrysler Building.

Im glad you see it my way.

[Don Pacho]

More Miami Beach Art Deco Buildings

http://img304.imageshack.us/img304/6103/miamibeach030slp6.jpg

http://img304.imageshack.us/img304/6715/miamibeach032ats0.jpg
(a solarized pic)

:tup:

[John R]

I have sort of a long answer to your question SuperstarMark. There has been a lot of redevelopment in the area over the last few years, and when I took the photograph, the building was only being used as a commuter rail station. At that time, the upper floors were vacant. The office tenant had just vacated the building for better offices in downtown.

Since the 1950's an overhead freeway ran in front of the building, and over the last several years, the city worked in getting the overhead relocated at grade to the rear of the building. I took the photo shortly after the overhead freeway was demolished in 2004. It was a great opportunity for a photo because you didn't have a clear view of the building previously. That explains all of the destruction in front of it. In 2001, the depot portion of the building started being used as a commuter rail station for the Trinity Railway Express, so at the time I took the picture, only a small part of it was being used. As I mentioned earlier, the only tenant moved out earlier in 2004 and then the owner announced he was going to convert the building into apartments. A smaller apartment building was constructed to the east of the tower as a part of this redevelopment. The apartments actually opened as condominiums in July. You probably will ask why I haven't taken a new photo. The reason is that the area where the overhead freeway was removed is still under construction for conversion into a grand boulevard entrance into downtown. They ran into major delays due to utilities being in the wrong locations, but slowly they are rebuilding the street. I didn't want to take any more photos from that view until the street is completed. The lobby is used for special occasions, small antique shows, meetings, and other events.

[DecoJim]

It figures that I take a vacation from the computer for a few days and a thread on my favorite architectural style appears. Great thread. It is nice to see more than just the Chrysler and ESB; the Eastern Columbia Building is amazing.

I think I might still have a few items to contribute even though many Detroit buildings have already been shown including at least one picture I took of the Fort Street facade of the Penobscot (the following photos are all mine).

Architect Louis Kamper, after spending much of his career designing Beaux Arts classical style building such as the Book Tower shown on the left of the picture below, designed the Industrial Apartment Building (1928) on the right:
http://www.maj.com/gallery/DecoJim/DowntownDetroit/booktower22.jpg

The Albert Kahn Building (1931, New Center area, near the Fisher Building):
http://www.maj.com/gallery/DecoJim/DetroitBuildings/albertkahnbuilding.jpg

Upper portion of Detroit Music Hall facade:
http://www.maj.com/gallery/DecoJim/DetroitBuildings/musichall02.jpg

Four miles north of Eight Mile road in the suburb of Royal Oak stands a large Art Deco church:
http://www.maj.com/gallery/DecoJim/DecoChurch/shrine01.jpg
The sunburst pattern, a common theme in Art Deco, is employed dramatically here as is the stepped Mayan "arch". If you look back at the Guardian Building in a prior post, you will notice the stepped arch used there as well.
http://www.maj.com/gallery/DecoJim/DecoChurch/shrine10.jpg

Here are a couple of Fisher Building details (see prior posts for full shots of the building):
http://www.maj.com/gallery/DecoJim/NewCenter/newcenter54.jpg

http://www.maj.com/gallery/DecoJim/NewCenter/fisherbuilding73.jpg

I noticed some Art Deco during a trip to Philadelphia last July:
http://www.maj.com/gallery/DecoJim/Philadelphia2006/phila717.jpg
This first building is the Residence Inn Philadelphia City Center (across street from the amazing City Hall):
http://www.maj.com/gallery/DecoJim/Philadelphia2006/phila718.jpg

http://www.maj.com/gallery/DecoJim/Philadelphia2006/phila734.jpg

http://www.maj.com/gallery/DecoJim/Philadelphia2006/phila735.jpg

[spyguy]

No mention of the Chicago Board of Trade?
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/3183/97297028c3ec9e1b55mm9.jpg
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/3347/92771295c4cbc27025xh0.jpg
http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6015/1788284169f056715e4en8.jpg

[brickell]

It's hard for me to imagine deco in colors other than white, pink and yellow. Love the pics from other cities.

Any Deco lovers need to visit the Wolfsonian musuem while in Miami.

[mdiederi]

There wasn't much here during that period, but how about Hoover Dam?.

http://www.john-daly.com/TwistedPhotos/albums/album19030305051515085707/hoover_dam.jpg
http://thomonthenet.com/LasVegas2001/LasVegas024b.jpghttp://www.buylasvegastours.com/images/lv_pink_jeep/hoover_dam_art_deco.jpg
http://www.top-wetter.de/reisefotografie/usa/bilder/gross/usa-hoover-dam-088.jpg

[Don Pacho]

:previous:
oh yeah. thanks.
I've been there... let me find some of my files :)

[Don Pacho]

Hoover Dam


http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/1981/hooverdam030sta3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4921/hooverdam026svk4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/7439/hooverdam067sxf4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/385/hooverdam041svq3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/5127/hooverdam050sdf5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[SuperstarMark]

DecoJim - this one is amazing. The details are brilliant!


http://www.maj.com/gallery/DecoJim/Philadelphia2006/phila717.jpg

[elsonic]

some in Montréal

Botanic Garden Administration
http://static.flickr.com/21/30796387_a5b0ce7145_b.jpg

Université de Montréal
http://static.flickr.com/34/103614705_996dc5b995_b.jpg

Atwater Market
http://happyworker.com/fun/gallery/albums/geekman/200405_mtl17.jpg

Eaton Store
http://www.erudit.org/livre/lachapellej/2001/l1d6_img01n.jpg

inside Eaton's, Restaurant le 9e
http://www.artdecomontreal.com/images/EatonRestAisle.gif

Cormier (or Trudeau) House
http://static.flickr.com/45/183765023_7dbf761bf5_o.jpg

Théatre Outremont
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y60/italiangerry/Cinemas/OutremontMontreal.jpg

Drummond Medical Building
http://static.flickr.com/3/2406485_17b2be0e97_o.jpg

Dorchester Square Building
http://static.flickr.com/32/37552432_14d09a6ebb_b.jpg

Snowdon Theatre
http://static.flickr.com/74/218111330_969d879c30_o.jpg

Cinéma Château
http://static.flickr.com/54/141238425_b48d767365_o.jpg

Quintal Bath
http://www.artdecomontreal.com/images/QuintalBathSide.gif

To the left, 640 Ste-Catherine W
http://www.squarephillips.com/DATA/PHOTOS/photo11.jpg

Holt Renfrew Store
http://www.erudit.org/livre/lachapellej/2001/l1d6_img17n.jpg

Aldred Building
http://static.flickr.com/66/165785534_45e37977cc_o.jpg

Casa Italia
http://www.artdecomontreal.com/images/MaisonD%27Italie.gif

some fire stations
http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/pls/portal/docs/page/service_sim_fr/media/images/cas46.jpghttp://ville.montreal.qc.ca/pls/portal/docs/page/service_sim_fr/media/images/cas31.jpghttp://ville.montreal.qc.ca/pls/portal/docs/page/service_sim_fr/media/images/cas23.jpg
http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/pls/portal/docs/page/service_sim_fr/media/images/cas48.jpghttp://ville.montreal.qc.ca/pls/portal/docs/page/service_sim_fr/media/images/cas43.jpghttp://ville.montreal.qc.ca/pls/portal/docs/page/service_sim_fr/media/images/cas10.jpg

Barclay School
http://www.artdecomontreal.com/images/Barclay.gif

National Breweries
http://www.artdecomontreal.com/images/NationalBreweriesElev.gif

Montreal Star Building
http://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/inventaire/illus/0040-12-6101-00-04.jpg

former warehouse converted to condos in the old port
http://static.flickr.com/49/156775874_5a0948f069_b.jpg

a few others...
http://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/inventaire/illus/0040-22-4429-02-01.jpghttp://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/inventaire/illus/0040-24-9642-01-00.jpghttp://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/inventaire/illus/0040-21-4393-00-00.jpg

[LostInTheZone]

I've always liked the Hoover Dam memorial angel- very dramatic.

We have one in Philly that's sort of similar- a very late example, from 1952, but it's definitely got deco sensibilities- The Angel of Resurrection, memorial to the men and women of the Pennsylvania Railraod who served and died in WWII:

http://shows.airamericaradio.com/maddow/files/maddow/images/30thStreetAngel.jpeg

http://www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com/bigmap/outoftown/pennsylvania/philadelphia/west/30thststation/pennsylvaniarrwarmemorial.jpg

http://www.purple.com/walk-to-work/30th_street_station_war_dead_statue__Thu-07-Aug-2003_17%3A46.big.jpg

Completed in the early 1930s, 30th Street Station itself is definitely neoclassical in concept, but deco in execution:

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8557/323678731565624yg2.jpg

[LostInTheZone]

John H. McClatchy building, Upper Darby, PA: in a commercial hub around the west terminal of the Market Street el, just over the Philadelphia city line, it's not the prettiest thing, or the best example of deco, but they sure went crazy with that ornament:

http://www.robbender.com/gallery/albums/mcclatchy/PA311608.sized.jpg
http://www.robbender.com/gallery/albums/mcclatchy/P1040012.sized.jpg
http://www.robbender.com/gallery/albums/mcclatchy/PA311612.sized.jpg
http://www.robbender.com/gallery/albums/mcclatchy/PA311624.sized.jpg
http://www.robbender.com/gallery/albums/mcclatchy/IMG_0894.sized.jpg

the stained glass window makes the most use of deco motifs:

http://www.robbender.com/gallery/albums/mcclatchy/PA311600.sized.jpg

[Don Pacho]

I've always liked the Hoover Dam memorial angel- very dramatic.

We have one in Philly that's sort of similar-



Yeah, the first time I saw your pics thats what came to my mind.
They were probably sculpted by the same artist.

:tup:

[wrab]

Napier, NZ is like the SoBe of the Southern Hemisphere - any NZ forumers have pics?

[brickell]

I've read that Bombay also has a sizeable Deco district. Any pictures of that one?

[rockyi]

You're right, LITZ, that John H. McClathchy building as a whole is very overblown but a close-up of the details shows they had the right idea and craftsmanship but...jeeeze, they needed to pull back just a little. It looks like a giant wedding cake.

[LMich]

More Detroit Deco

Music Hall:

http://static.flickr.com/22/37698097_161582cba2_b.jpg

Madison Exchange (one of the many Bell Telephone exchanges in the city):

http://static.flickr.com/26/101011575_9b555456aa_b.jpg

The old Sanders Confectionary Company Headquarters

http://static.flickr.com/15/92455255_4d0e1f2a8a_o.jpg

Salvation Army - Bagely Service Center

http://static.flickr.com/51/128222031_51083448dd_b.jpg

[gpkdog]

Some more from the Buffalo, NY area:

This is a small 2 storey office/retail building with some good Art Deco details.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/gpkeppel/443del1.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/gpkeppel/443del2.jpg

The Rand Building, which somewhat resembles the Empire State Building although completed two years earlier.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/gpkeppel/437885.jpg

The long abandoned but now undergoing restoration United Office Building in Niagara Falls, NY, was the tallest building in that city until last year.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/gpkeppel/uobniagfalls.jpg

The former Industrial Bank

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/gpkeppel/industrialbank.jpg

Former Courier Express newspaper building

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/gpkeppel/courierexpress.jpg

Former Pierce-Arrow (later Cadillac) dealership, now a bank, note the original 1930's Pierce-Arrow on display inside.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/gpkeppel/pashowroom.jpg

The small Vars office building.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/gpkeppel/vars.jpg

An abandoned bank on the city's East Side.

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/gpkeppel/13927120_6c7b084c25.jpg

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d97/gpkeppel/14017792_2e8be1e4ef.jpg

[skylife]

http://static.flickr.com/40/83950408_69fce2bbf9_b.jpg

WOW!!!

[Simcoe]

Great threads! Some beauties have been shown!

[Wheelingman04]

I absolutely love Art Deco!!

[Don Pacho]

My old pics of Miami Beach Art Deco Buildings...



http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/6622/miamibeach001yl5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/70/miamibeach002ra3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/2246/miamibeach005bm1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9598/miamibeach006st4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/6343/miamibeach007jl4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


:tup:



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[rockyi]

Details of a Davenport, IA building showing where late neo-classical meets very early Deco (circa 1923)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/rockyi/aa8ce989.jpg

[brickell]

Don, I like that old Victor better. First I've seen pictures of it before being abandoned.

The new one can be seen here: http://hotelvictorsouthbeach.com

[fflint]

Some San Francisco art deco/moderne

Bridge:
http://www.barakyedidia.com/Architecture/Images/ggbtall.jpg

http://www.wildnatureimages.com/images%202/040930-035..jpg

Commercial:
http://www.hjbrunnier.com/images/pic7.jpg

http://sfcityscape.com/highrises/skyscraper_profiles/imgs/shell_1.jpg

http://sfcityscape.com/highrises/skyscraper_profiles/imgs/call.jpg

http://www.decopix.com/New%20Site/Images/Classic%20Deco/450_sutter_crop.jpg

http://www.fdfac.com/assets/shell_2.jpg

http://www.1sfhome.com/ArchArtDecoPacStkXchngGodde.gif

Residential:
http://www.1sfhome.com/ArchArtDecoMaidenOverDoor.gif

http://www.1sfhome.com/ArchArtDecoHCbauMarketLagun.gif

Recreational:
http://www.sfphotorama.com/uploaded_images/coit_at_night-736918.jpg

http://www.wildnatureimages.com/images%202/041001-046..jpg

http://www.1sfhome.com/ArchArtDecoMaritimeMuseum.gif

http://www.drwagnernet.com/40b/lectures/13.04.jpg


Oakland art deco/moderne:

Commercial:
http://decopix.com/New%20Site/Images/Classic%20Deco/fd.jpg

http://decopix.com/New%20Site/Images/Classic%20Deco/oaklandtc.jpg

http://www.fototime.com/%7B098BC907-4AE0-47D8-ADCA-5ED97CF18B11%7D/picture.JPG

http://thelastninehundred.com/paramount/GDSCN7274a.jpg

http://decopix.com/New%20Site/Images/Classic%20Deco/Oakland-Paramount.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Fox_Oakland_Theatre.jpg

http://www.newsreel.us/panthers/alameda_courthouse.jpg

[Westsidelife]

Los Angeles:

Alexander Oviatt Building

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h125/MBenzLover/oviatt.jpg

One Bunker Hill

http://www.bielskiservices.com/images/one_bunker_hill_650.JPG

[Westsidelife]

delete

[PiGuy]

Awesome thread, Art Deco is easily my favorite architecture style.

Does anyone have any more pictures of the interiors of Art Deco buildings?

Speaking of interiors, does anyone know where you can buy Art Deco style pieces to furnish your house? I am often wondering if there are still companies that make pieces inspired by Art Deco, or if you have to resort to antiques?

[LMich]

I'd forgot completely about bridges. While definitely not the most memorable, Detroit/Windsor's Ambassador Bridge is an Art Modern piece:

http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/special/coles/tallshipc-7-22-01dc.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/36/121904501_82ef621ef8_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/34/121747757_0eca1025d2_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/27/35754307_6e1e172e50_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/61/215047336_1ea12f8bd2_b.jpg

[LMich]

Lansing Deco...

Part of Lansing, Michigan's Sexton High School:

http://static.flickr.com/36/116162972_bdc523ab62_o.jpg

Former Downtown Lansing YMCA

http://static.flickr.com/97/223416222_68dbd3a5e5_o.jpg

Lansing Michigan Bell Telephone Building

http://static.flickr.com/94/222291689_d402cc0ca3_o.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/80/222291684_09257472c6_o.jpg

Boji Tower/Michigan National Tower

http://static.flickr.com/96/205340626_1c7aa704cc_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/52/106134602_628eebfe5c_o.jpg

Knapps Centre

http://static.flickr.com/98/205340625_a263f93192_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/36/77310491_5013ca5fa3_o.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/35/115738077_2842b1849c_o.jpg

Ottawa Street Power Station (decomissioned)

http://static.flickr.com/86/248699501_b86ecee05d_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/89/248307790_9bff93b5ef_b.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/37/98955270_206e4d2a20_o.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/35/121586034_1726133ba1_o.jpg

Otto Eckert Power Station

http://static.flickr.com/56/111791077_92d76e2603_o.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/86/234727153_684430acf8_b.jpg

[SuperstarMark]

Don Pacho - thanks for the Hoover Dam pix, forgot about it - just great...


http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4921/hooverdam026svk4.jpg

[MayorOfChicago]

I work in an Art Deco building in Chicago, so I'll share a few.

333 N. Michigan:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/333.jpg

Board of Trade Building:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/board.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/board1.jpg

Palmolive Building:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/palm.jpg

Old Daily News Building ( I work on the 19th floor )
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/two.jpg

Our twin across the street, the civic Opera House:
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/civic.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/civic1.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f385/Candrson/civic2.jpg

[pdxstreetcar]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Providence-first_impression.jpg/450px-Providence-first_impression.jpg
Providence's Industrial Trust Bank now Bank of America Tower, 1928

[mglan80]

^Wish we had that building downtown.

Wilmington really has only one example, the Nemours building. It was built by DuPont in the 1930's. It's doesn't have alot of the daring Deco design, which is probably because DuPont was such a staid company. The lobby has some cool Deco touches on the doors, elevators (another thread), and the lettering and clocks. To bad I don't have any photos of it. Anyways here it is:

http://www.addresswilmington.com/nemourson10th.jpg

http://www.addresswilmington.com/nemoursatorange.JPG

[pdxstreetcar]

Portland doesnt have any art deco towers but Seattle has a nice one, the Seattle Tower...
http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/Neighborhoods/preservation/images/large/SeattleTower3DON.jpg
Look very closely at the brick on this tower... it gradually and very carefully fades from dark brown brick at the base to lighter brown brick at the top. this is not an accident but was intended by the architect to imitate a snow capped mountain.

[ultimate builder]

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f43/sexexeter/NEWYORK002.jpg
How about the AIG... an old photo.... note the guy on top changing the beacon.
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f43/sexexeter/NEWYORK003.jpg
A rare night closeup of the top.

[vanhattan]

Hi, here are some photos of the Vancovuer City Hall building, completed in 1936. The building's style stands at a transitional point between the vertical, highly ornamented Art Deco style and the simpler, more horizontal Moderne.http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0906/cityhall.htmlhttp://www.worldofstock.com/closeups/TAW2660.phphttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jmv/48436355/http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/cityhall/# and the Marine Building; http://www.terragalleria.com/pictures-subjects/entrances/picture.entrances.cabc10814.htmlhttp://www.execu-suites.com/building.htmlhttp://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=113268http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/archives_marine_building.htm

[LostInTheZone]

The streamlined moderne 1360 Montgomery Street, San Francisco:

I noticed this building last month when I was going up Telegraph Hill. I just came across the name of it now, looking for info on how high the hill was. The murals are silvery foil against white stucco:

http://www.mistersf.com/images/malloch006.jpghttp://www.mistersf.com/images/darkpassagehall02.jpghttp://www.mistersf.com/images/malloch002.jpg

http://www.mistersf.com/images/malloch05.jpghttp://www.mistersf.com/images/malloch003.jpghttp://www.mistersf.com/images/malloch04.jpg

http://www.mistersf.com/images/malloch02.jpg See the view of the Bay Bridge, mirroring the mural?

The apartments were built in '38-'39, at a time when the Hill was changing from a difficult-to-reach working-class enclave to a place appreciated by wealthier people who moved there for the views. The murals celebrate the newly opened Bay Bridge, as well as reflecting the areas's character and the 1930s preoccupation with workers and socialist themes in art.

[LostInTheZone]

http://www.drwagnernet.com/40b/lectures/13.04.jpg

the real thing, from Cushman (http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp), in 1940:

http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/archives/cushman/full/P01881.jpg

this is all gone, isn't it?

LMich: that Knapp building reminds me a lot of one of my favorite overlooked buildings in DC, the Hecht warehouse on New York Avenue. Possibly the most full realized use of glass block in architecture, in my opinion (with the exception of Renzo Piano's Hermes store in Tokyo):

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2006/03/23/PH2006032302017.jpg

http://www.chicagoartdecosociety.com/news/images/hecht.jpg

sorry for the crappy pics. DC actually has a lot of 1930s architecture, probably because FDR's expansion of the government provided jobs.

[¿buen diseño?]

Houston City Hall
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:EJ72fyFAqRltuM:http://www.north-houston.com/developers/images/HoustonCity-Hall.jpg
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:-HHehXHPr7f7rM:http://photographsamerica.com/store/img/HOU109.jpg
http://wingedmammal.com/action_photos_2003/CRW_7620L.jpg
http://wingedmammal.com/action_photos_2003/CRW_7625L.jpg

[RamsayHank]

Some more Pittsburgh examples:

From the old Buhl Planetarium (now part of the Children's Museum) on the North Side:

http://web.mac.com/letobar/iWeb/Site/Art%20Deco%20Faves_files/03-Nov-2002%20005.jpg

http://web.mac.com/letobar/iWeb/Site/Art%20Deco%20Faves_files/20051029%20North%20Side%20014.jpg

The Three Sisters Bridges across the Allegheny:

http://web.mac.com/letobar/iWeb/Site/Art%20Deco%20Faves_files/2003-06-14%20-PA-%20Phila%20%26%20Pgh%20036_2.jpg

http://web.mac.com/letobar/iWeb/Site/Art%20Deco%20Faves_files/November%202002%20004.jpg

And the University of Pittsburgh's own towering innuendo, the Cathedral of Learning:

http://web.mac.com/letobar/iWeb/Site/Art%20Deco%20Faves_files/20060528%20Youghiogheny%20027.jpg

[texcolo]

Texas Hall of State

http://www.carolynbrownphotographer.com/Images/3i-dls-HOSdusk-.JPG

http://ct.pbase.com/u43/timchen/upload/28134748.HoSGreatHall3.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/State_Fair_Hall_of_State.jpg

I'm not sure if this motif is technically art deco, but it's definately Texan.

http://k41.pbase.com/u43/timchen/upload/28134876.HoSSTXRm2.jpg

http://www.rob.com/pic/dallas2006/HPIM4830.sized.jpg

Band Shell

http://nwcollectorcamera.com/gallery/images/Michael_May/Sun%20Bowl.jpg

Cotton Bowl

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Cotton_Bowl.jpg

Women's Museum: Instead of Venus on a clamshell, we have Venus on a Saguaro Cactus.

http://k47.pbase.com/u40/timchen/upload/25935913.WomensMuseum1.jpg

http://img181.echo.cx/img181/8594/403ok.jpg

Automotive Building / Esplanade

http://www.rob.com/pic/dallas2006/HPIM4832.sized.jpg

http://p.vtourist.com/1602614-Fair_Park-Dallas.jpg

Centennial Building / Esplanade

http://www.rob.com/pic/dallas2006/HPIM4831.sized.jpg

http://k47.pbase.com/u40/timchen/upload/25977509.CentennialBuilding1.jpg

View of the Esplanade from the Hall of State.

http://img230.echo.cx/img230/1071/68xw.jpg

Dallas Aquarium

http://p.vtourist.com/1602662-Fair_Park-Dallas.jpg

Tower Building

http://k41.pbase.com/u40/timchen/upload/25967146.TowerBuilding1.jpg

http://mk23.image.pbase.com/u40/timchen/upload/25977497.TowerBuilding2.jpg

I've lived in Dallas for 33 years, and have been to Fair Park a million times, but I don't remember seeing this. It's known as "the Woofus."

http://k47.pbase.com/u43/timchen/upload/28134943.Woofus.jpg

[Stavros]

which was the first art deco building?

[DecoJim]

which was the first art deco building?

I do not know about all buildings but my guess as to the first Art Deco skyscraper would be the Barclay-Vesey Building (begun in 1923) in New York.
http://hex.oucs.ox.ac.uk/~rejs/holidays/nyc2002/barclayvesey.jpg
(not my picture - shows building undergoing repair after 9/11 damage.)

The following link has a number of vintage photo and postcard images of the Barclay-Vesey.
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LM/LM070.htm

The American Standard or Radiator Building (1924) also in New York is the first that perfected the setback designs used in so many Art Deco skyscrapers since then.
http://www.aviewoncities.com/img/nyc/kveus0735s.jpg
(not my picture)

[Via Chicago]

It was built for the Chicago "Century of Progress" in 1933. And it was demolished after the fair. But damn, I love it: The Chrysler Building

http://webpages.marshall.edu/~brooks/HOT/CHRYSLER.JPG

[rockyi]

^I used to collect items from the 1933-34 Century Of Progress while out "junking", that is until such items have become very collectable and priced beyond what I can afford.
I too have always loved the looks of this Chrysler building. It's a damn shame they were temporary.

[Nowhereman1280]

I love Art Deco! Its such a great expression of feeling in architecture. I love the incorporation of the symbols of progress and human achievement that are frequently incorporated in the architecture. Art Deco is Conservative (though it can get quite extravagant), yet classy, and don't forget badass all at the same time.

I hope that we get a Neo-Art Deco movement or something like that sometime. I would be great to see what kind of grand buildings we could build with todays technology. Imagine the kind of vertical lines you could get on a 1500 foot wall! I have noticed that, as mentioned before, a few designs in Chicago, i.e. One Museum Park, are remeniscent of Art Deco.

It would also be good to get a few pics of the new Marquette innerchange thats going up in Milwaukee, its actually very Art Deco. Some pictures can be found by paging through the flash feature at this website: http://www.mchange.org/page.jsp?&key=vps

Other than the geometric lines and pale yellow coloring, the historcal mural/raised concrete figures depicting the citizens of Milwaukee freeing escaped slave Joshua Glover from slave hunters. This art is all very reminescent of the imagry that you find on these historic buildings. I'm very excited that they decided to do something cool with the interchange project!

[Snoshredder21]

1180 Raymond Blvd. and National Newark & Essex Building.....Newark NJ
http://static.flickr.com/67/190468666_f7f7e73a18_o.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/55/149481637_e880d1abda_o.jpg

[POLA]

great thread... all of that miami stuff reminds me more of bauhaus then art deco to be honest.

[¿buen diseño?]

some interesting examples in Austin
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2893/285194947148158/1600/OwnAketl3%20016.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2893/285194947148158/1600/OwnAketl3%20018.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2893/285194947148158/1600/OwnAketl3%20019.jpg

[¿buen diseño?]

The old Gulf Oil bldg in houston
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2893/285194947148158/1600/YAY%20037.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/2893/285194947148158/1600/oh%20no%20they%20no%20098.jpg