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Art deco buildings don't just dot the downtown skyline; they're dispersed around metro Detroit, too. When it comes to art deco architecture in Detroit, everyone knows the Fisher Building ...
The Praça do Comércio stands out as one of Goa’s earliest art deco buildings. Designed in the 1930s by engineer Luis Bismarck Dias, it reflects the Art Deco aesthetic at its peak, adhering ...
Mumbai is home to the second-largest concentration of Art Deco buildings in the world, after Miami. The cluster of buildings facing the Oval Maidan and Marine Drive promenade form part of the ...
One of the more interesting stories we have this week is on the village of Dharmaj in Anand, Gujarat, which has more than 120 Art Deco buildings that date back to the 1930s and ’40s—that’s a ...
All you need to do is stop and look up. Almost anywhere you go in southeastern Michigan ― anywhere with Art Deco buildings or Gothic Revival churches ― if you look up, you’ll see fascinating ...
Proposed changes to a state law would allow developers to knock down hundreds of Miami Beach’s iconic art deco buildings and replace them with rows of taller apartment buildings.
For Mark Houser's first book, MultiStories, he used vintage postcards to show the buildings. "When I started planning my second book to focus on skyscrapers from the Art Deco era," he shares ...
Ornamentation on buildings has been around for as long as buildings, but the roots of Art Deco style are often traced to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, his mentor Louis Sullivan and movements ...
Art-deco buildings feature clean shapes and stylized ornaments that are often geometric. Sometimes, buildings can include varied materials both natural, like jade and silver, and manmade like plastics ...
When the descriptor “art deco” is used in an architectural context ... when crowds filed into cinema buildings with crown-like marquee signage to watch moving pictures on a large screen ...
“Our Art Deco buildings, like the Cardozo, define Miami Beach and set us apart from every other city in the world.” While a state House version of the bill includes protections for more than ...
Some of the city’s most iconic landmarks were inspired by the architectural design of Art Deco. It started in Europe in the early 1900s and came to New York during the Roaring ‘20s.