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Old Posted Dec 14, 2008, 6:50 AM
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Art Deco Where You Live.
Post any photos of Art Deco buildings in your area or elsewhere you have visited.

Ill start off with where I go to school here in Arkansas. The Pope County Courthouse, built in 1932 employs many beautiful art deco elements and is my favorite building in Russellville. Some morons in the 70s however thought it would be a dandy idea to add an ugly roof to it and it kinda wrecked the verticality of the art deco design, but I still love it.

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The most beautiful high school in America, well in my opinion. Central High School in Little Rock, built in 1927. Its where the whole desegregation thing with the Little Rock 9 happened back in the 50s.


Chicago Board of Trade Building, built 1932.


The Gulf Building in Houston, 1927 I believe, its standing next to the now rising 630 ft Main Place Tower.
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One of my favourite buildings in Vancouver is the art deco Marine Building (1930). You may recognize it as the Baxter Building in the Fantastic Four movies (except they digitally add a weird top to it).

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And these interior shots are from http://www.architypes.net/place/marine-building






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The amount of detail is incredible. I am loving those little etches in the bricks of planes and dirigibles. That building just screams art deco!
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Can't wait to see someone post the Guardian Building.

My city, Lansing, has quite a few decent examples:

J.W. Sexton High School - 1943



Charles Chamberlain Federal Building - 1934





Michigan National Tower - 1931


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Knapp's Department Store - 1937


Eridony

Bank of Lansing/Comerica Building - 1932


Eridony

Ottawa Street Station - 1940


Apocalops

Eckert Power Station - 1923



John Dye Water Conditioning Plant - 1939


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The "Schaubühne" in Berlin - Charlottenburg is considered the only
Art Deco Theatre in Europe. Initially built as cinema named "Universum" in 1928.


Wikipedia Commons



The Haus des Rundfunks (Broadcasting House) in Berlin-Charlottenburg is built in 1931 and has an Art Deco lobby.


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The Beisheim Center in Berlin - Mitte (Potsdamer Platz) houses a Ritz Carlton hotel and is considered as an example of postmodern Art Deco built in 2003.

Foto: Michael Paul

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Um, the only Art Deco I know in Copenhagen/Malmö is probably the extension of the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, build in 1931.






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According to visitsweden.com, The Malmö Opera is an "art deco masterpiece", but has as far as I know always been labelled as a fine example of functionalism here in Malmö. You tell me...

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Shouldn't this thread be in the Buildings/Architecture section?

Anyway, Art Deco in Cleveland...

AT&T Building - built 1927, 365 ft/111m (photo by the pope):


Standard Building - built 1925, 282 ft/86m


Detail shot:


Fenn Tower - built 1930, 265 ft/81m


Landmark Office Towers - built 1930, 260 ft./79m:


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Art Deco in other northeast Ohio cities:

Akron

First National Tower - built 1931, 331 ft./101m


Canal Place Apartments - built 1928:


Youngstown

First National Tower - built 1929, 224 ft.:
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Sorry guys but I'm not really good at differentiating between architectural styles, so I put forth the question, are these art deco style?

Fisk Building








Santa Fe Building



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The level of detail on and in the Marine Building is astonishing. Vancouver is lucky to have such an art deco masterpiece.
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Jeeper those are most def art deco buildings.

I knew someone was going to post the Buffalo City Hall building, thats probably the most amazing art deco building ever erected. Now, Im just waiting to see the Empire State Building pop up on here somewhere lol
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Cool idea for a thread!

Art Deco is extremely rare in New England, as the region was depressed in the 1920's. Here's some from elsewhere:

Jersey City Medcal Center, NJ




Tulsa, OK (some of the best you'll find anywhere)




Battle Creek, MI


Kansas City, MO


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Here's Vancouver City Hall (1936):


bob_2006 @ flickr.com


soma slim @ flickr.com


by wwfcanada @ flickr.com

And here is a smaller building I quite like in Vancouver, the William Dick Building (1926).


bob_2006 @ flickr.com
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Oh I forgot about this beautiful building I shot in Toledo a couple years ago. I have no idea what it is though.







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How about an Art Deco house?


Hamilton, Ontario



EDIT: I guess this should be in the architecture section, so I'm moving it.
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Is that a new house? It doesnt look like its from the 30s.
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It was recently refurbished, but yes it was built in the 1930s.
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... Now, Im just waiting to see the Empire State Building pop up on here somewhere lol
How about the Empire State Building and the American Radiator Building? Not the best weather day, but I kinda liked this shot:
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