Former Kallang Airport
Contemporary press called it “the finest airport east of Suez.” Today Singapore’s first purpose-built civil air terminal stands as a gazetted national…
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Luigi De Marchi
Luigi De Marchi, architect, is the editor and publisher of Cultural Heritage Online. He founded the archive in 1998 as beniculturalionline.it and has published it without interruption since.
Contributions: 39 articles · 1,238 heritage places · 21 itineraries · 2 road-books
101 articles on the Italian archive
Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
- tourismA di Firenze u00e8 il Salone dell'Archeologia e del Turismo Culturale Italiano
- Venezia e il Portogallo in etu00e0 moderna | conferenze Museo di Palazzo Grimani
- Le performance di beniculturalionline.it
- Scrivania Nomos 1984 c.
- Carrello contenitore BOBY di Joe Colombo, 1970
- Washstand, 1904
- Sgabello Mezzadro, 1957
- Poltrona Joe, 1970
- Sedia a dondolo - UOVO modello Nu00b0 267
- Panchina, 1906-1914 c. in stile Art Nouveau
- Jaguar E-Type
- Poltrona Barcelona - Mies van der Rohe
Tiong Bahru Estate
Singapore’s oldest surviving public housing estate, built by the Singapore Improvement Trust between 1936 and 1941, is a rare urban block of Streamline…
Cathay Building
Singapore’s first skyscraper and a landmark Art Déco tower — opened in 1939, with the residential tower completed in 1941 — whose conserved facade on Handy…
Bangkok General Post Office
A monumental four-storey concrete landmark on Charoen Krung Road where Thailand’s first modern postal era began — and where the TCDC now champions design…
Chalermkrung Royal Theatre
Built for Bangkok’s 150th anniversary and opened on 2 July 1933, this Art Déco landmark was among the first air-conditioned public buildings in Siam — and…
Maputo — Lourenço Marques and African Art Déco
Mozambique’s capital carries a Portuguese colonial centre where Art Déco lines from the 1930s and 1940s give way to a bolder tropical modernism. The two…
Durban — Art Déco on the Indian Ocean
Granted city status in 1935, Durban grew through the decade that made Art Déco a worldwide language. The style, in Wikipedia’s phrase, “left its stamp on…
Alexandria — Cosmopolitan Déco on the Mediterranean
Egypt’s principal seaport rebuilt itself in the modern age as a Mediterranean crossroads. Its inter-war downtown still reads as a layered streetscape of Déco…
Bandung — Paris van Java and Tropical Art Déco
High on a volcanic plateau in West Java, Bandung wears the architecture of a colonial dream that was never finished. Its 1920s and 1930s buildings translate…
Cape Town — Mutual Heights and Cape Art Déco
At the foot of Table Mountain, Cape Town’s old commercial core holds one of the southern hemisphere’s most assured Art Déco landmarks. Granite, setbacks and…