Art Deco

omro · #1 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 7:35 AM**

Not sure if this is the right subforum, if it's not, please can a moderator move it.

The question I have is...

Are there any more examples of Art Deco in Hamilton?

You've the TH&B station (now the GO) on Hunter Street, which I went and gawped at during my last visit, and I've just seen a photo of Hamilton Hydro, another fabulous Art Deco building, which I'll have to find to look at during my next visit.

Any more?

vid · #2 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 8:38 AM**

Piggott Building.

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matt602 · #3 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 8:45 AM**

I thought the Piggott was Gothic or something?

omro · #4 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 9:23 AM**

Piggott Building is definitely gothic, gorgeous though

astroblaster · #5 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 11:32 AM**

The Bell Telephone Baker Exchange on Jackson St.

http://www.historicalhamilton.com/du...aker-exchange/

astroblaster · #6 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 11:42 AM**

I've heard the Pigott building being described as a mix of Art-Deco and Gothic Revival

flar · #7 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 12:17 PM**

Art Deco is usually a grand building, with geometric shapes and "decorations" carved on it, like the Courthouse:

SteelTown · #8 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 12:41 PM**

Isn't the GO Station art deco?

astroblaster · #9 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 12:48 PM**

i think the Go Station is considered Art-Moderne as opposed to Art-Deco

This site has some definitions:
http://www.ontarioarchitecture.com/

omro · #10 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 12:49 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by astroblaster

The Bell Telephone Baker Exchange on Jackson St.

http://www.historicalhamilton.com/du...aker-exchange/

Nice building, though not quite what I would have thought to be Art Deco. Not quite sure what style that is, but the doorway is all wrong for Deco.

omro · #11 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 12:50 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by flar

Art Deco is usually a grand building, with geometric shapes and "decorations" carved on it, like the Courthouse:

And again, not sure if that's Deco, it's too highly ornamented to be Deco based on what I've seen of the style here in the UK.

omro · #12 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 12:52 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by astroblaster

i think the Go Station is considered Art-Moderne as opposed to Art-Deco

This site has some definitions:
http://www.ontarioarchitecture.com/

Art Moderne has more organic ornamentation, the GO is too crisp and clean to be Art Moderne. IMHO.

astroblaster · #13 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 12:53 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by omro

And again, not sure if that's Deco, it's too highly ornamented to be Deco based on what I've seen of the style here in the UK.

Do you have any examples of UK Deco? I'd be interested to see them

SteelTown · #14 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 12:56 PM**

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_(GO_Station)

"Hamilton GO Centre is the only example of Art Deco railway station architecture in Canada."

highwater · #15 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 12:57 PM**

The Pigott building is Art Deco in its stepped back form, but the decorative program is definitely neo-Gothic.

The Port Authority building is another lovely Art Deco building, and there are a number of Art Deco homes using structural steel frames, at least two of them built by Pigott. One of them appears in Flar's Durand photo essay. There are a couple of beauties in Westdale, one of which is currently being restored.

raisethehammer · #16 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 12:59 PM**

there's a really cool little Art Deco building on Main East near Emerald/Tisdale on the north side.
It's more of a Miami Beach style Art Deco. It's apartments. With some coloured exterior lighting at night it would fit right in on the beach in Miami.

omro · #17 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 1:01 PM**

However, that said, looking at the website...

Half of what it says is Art Moderne, I'd have said was Deco.

Maybe in the UK we see both styles and just lump them together as Deco.

Here the sweeping curves, that it has in its Art Moderne page, would certainly be called Deco.

That said, one lead on from the other, so they could just have been lumped together in our defintions :-)

flar · #18 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 1:10 PM**

I think the definitions mesh together, often the more simple buildings with rounded corners, corner windows and stainless steel (like GO Centre or Hamilton Hydro) are called art moderne and the more elaborate ones (like LIUNA Stations) are called art deco. But they look similar to me.

LIUNA Station

Port Authority

detail:

Hamilton Hydro

GO Centre

House in Durand (rear view unfortunately):

omro · #19 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 1:11 PM**

From Timeout's website, the quintessential Art Deco building, the former Hoover building (now owned by Tesco).

I can't find an image of this apartment block just next to Marylebone Station that is what I would call Deco, I'll keep hunting.

In the meantime, here's a small image from EasyOffices.com with an example of clean lines Deco, with the curve instead of a corner.

Aha! Found a site with some fantastic example of London's Art Deco, one of which is the apartment building used in the Poirot TV series, which is again what I consider Deco with the curves :-)

Art of the State

omro · #20 Posted **Sep 10, 2008, 1:18 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by flar

I think the definitions mesh together, often the more simple buildings with rounded corners, corner windows and stainless steel (like GO Centre or Hamilton Hydro) are called art moderne and the more elaborate ones (like LIUNA Stations) are called art deco. But they look similar to me.

LIUNA Station

Every one of your examples, except this one I'd say were Deco. This is Classical Revival according to the OntarioArchitechture site quoted earlier.

I'm loving the Hamilton port Authority Building btw :-)