37-floor Art Deco skyscraper by Daniel and Hubert Burnham, sons of Chicago architect and city planner Daniel H. Burnham (1846-1912) • polished black granite base trimmed with black marble and bronze • tower sheathed in deep green terra cotta • housed offices of Union Carbide and Carbon subsidiaries • Union Carbide inventor of dry cell battery, Eveready brand • permanent night illumination of tower installed, 2007 • drawings & blueprints • now Hard Rock Hotel Chicago • designated Chicago Landmark, 1996 • Wikipedia Mather Tower (1928) in background • 41-story Gothic skyscraper designed by Herbert Hugh Riddle, is skinniest in Chicago • fell into disrepair, 1990s • Masterworks Development Corporation purchased and rehabilitated building, 2000 • lower part of bldg. now River Hotel • World Architecture Images • Wikipedia
©Bullocks Wilshire, Los Angeles, California It's a spring afternoon in 1936, as you pull up to the doorstep of 3050 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The valet takes your car, the doorman tips his cap, and suddenly you find yourself in the belly of a 230,000-square-foot mecca of West
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Serralves Museum & Foundation, Porto, Portugal Art Deco garden urns and bird bath About ten years ago I was on the quest to find out more on Art Deco garden design and came up with very little inspiration on the internet. I was fortunate to correspond with the Art Deco Trust of Napier, New Zealand and they sent me information and the booklet featured above, the booklet can be ordered via the link: [email protected] or visit www.deconapier.com. Here are some tips for designing an Art Deco garden: Layout: In its most extreme form, the Art Deco garden was simply lawn and evergreen shrubs. In general, the garden should be formal rather than natural, severe rather than fussy. Planting: Hard-edged evergreen shrubs are most appropriate, as well as being compact and attractive all year. Topiary trees are ideal for the setting. Low flowering plants, in bright colours, that can be planted in straight or curved lines or in massed areas are appropriate. Examples are impatiens, marigolds, calendulas, petunias, anenomes and lobelia. Evergreen ground covers such as clipped ivy is also suitable. Paving: Regular, evenly coloured paving slabs or tiles are best for paving or courtyards. Water features were popular and should be in the form of formal, rectangular or perfectly round pools, edged with tiles or cut slabs, not natural stone. Use square or stepped corners. www.skyscrapercapetown.co.za
Photos of early, classic Art Deco architecture. The era of the great Art Deco skyscrapers.
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Photos of early, classic Art Deco architecture. The era of the great Art Deco skyscrapers.
The Verizon Building, at 140 West Street, was built in 1923-1927 as the Barclay-Vesey Building for the New York Telephone Company. The 32-storey, 152-meter building by Ralph Walker of McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin is considered to be the first Art Deco skyscraper. Named after the streets that border it to the north and south, it sits on an entire rhomboid-shaped block and was built to accommodate office space for more than 5,000 workers. Drawing from Saarinen's Chicago Tribune competition entry, the Mayan-inspired brick-clad building is topped with a short, sturdy tower, with the vertical piers ending on "battlements" on top and with sculptural ornaments on the setbacks. The entrances are decorated with bronze bas-reliefs with a main theme of bells, the symbol of the Bell Telephone Company. A neo-Romanesque vaulted arcade with ceiling murals runs the whole length of the Vesey Street side. The massive form contains 4830m² of floorspace without any light courts because the telephone installations didn't require natural light. The 70 m long lobby extends through the middle of the building from Washington to West Streets. The lobby floor is covered with bronze plates depicting the construction of New York's telephone network, and the ceiling has frescoes by Hugo R. B. Newman with the theme of the history of communication, culminating in the then-cutting-edge "candlestick" telephone. The September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the nearby World Trade Center damaged also this building, causing, along with some external bruising, serious damage inside. Beams from the falling buildings tore through the building's structures, and the underground vaults with their tele-equipment were flooded with 38 million liters of water, putting 300,000 phone lines out of order for a week. The reconstruction of the building, including the painstaking restoration of the eastern entrance bas-reliefs and the lobby ceiling murals (estimated at $2 million and unveiled in early 2004), has been estimated to cost $200 million. The Barclay-Vesey Building was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1991. National Register #09000257 (2009)
34-story Art Deco skyscraper designed by John Wellborn Root, Jr. (1887 - 1963) • designated Chicago Landmark, 1997 • Michigan-Wacker Historic District, National Register #78001124, 1978 • Wikipedia.
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