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London’s first office skyscraper rose over a tube station: Holden’s cruciform tower for the Underground, carrying sculpture by Epstein, Gill and a…
London’s first office skyscraper rose over a tube station: Holden’s cruciform tower for the Underground, carrying sculpture by Epstein, Gill and a…
The most famous fictional address in Art Deco London is a real one: Florin Court’s curved brick front on Charterhouse Square has played Whitehaven Mansions…
Bruce Goff’s first major commission — a Zig Zag Art Deco tower built with oil-boom money in 1927 — survived decades of abandonment and three major fires to…
Albert Kahn’s 1925 limestone tower on Lafayette Boulevard served the Detroit Free Press for over seventy years before Bedrock Detroit transformed it into one…
A PWA Moderne landmark twelve years in the making, the Municipal Auditorium opened in 1950 and brought Elvis Presley, Van Cliburn, and President Kennedy to…
The green pyramid at the corner of the Bund and Nanjing Road is where Jazz Age Shanghai checked in: Sir Victor Sassoon’s Cathay Hotel of 1929, still pouring…
Out of the rubble of the 1931 earthquake, a tobacco magnate demanded the most beautiful building in New Zealand — and got it: Louis Hay’s arched doorway…
Rum built it, and it looks like celebration: red granite, terracotta in ochre and cobalt, and a stepped tower with a brass bat on top — the Bacardí family’s…
Seahorses, ships and waves climb its terracotta skin; its lobby glows like a temple of the sea. The Marine Building opened in October 1930, a million dollars…
Part water tower, part triumphal gate, part tram terminus: the tower that welcomes visitors to Lake Palić compresses the whole Hungarian Secession into one…