Luigi De Marchi
Editor & Publisher

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: 4 articles · 1,209 heritage places · 8 itineraries · 2 road-books

Author name: 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.

55 Broadway, London — the Portland stone tower of Charles Holden rising over St James's Park station

55 Broadway, London

London’s first office skyscraper rose over a tube station: Holden’s cruciform tower for the Underground, carrying sculpture by Epstein, Gill and a…

Florin Court on Charterhouse Square, London — curved Art Deco apartment block of 1936

Florin Court, London

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…

Edificio Bacardí in Havana — polychrome Art Deco tower of 1930 in red granite and glazed terracotta

Edificio Bacardí, Havana

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…

Marine Building, Vancouver — Art Deco skyscraper of 1930 with terracotta marine ornament

Marine Building, Vancouver

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…

Palić Water Tower — Hungarian Secession gateway tower to the lakeside resort, Komor and Jakab, 1912

Palić Water Tower

Part water tower, part triumphal gate, part tram terminus: the tower that welcomes visitors to Lake Palić compresses the whole Hungarian Secession into one…

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