The Paramount, Shanghai
百乐门 — the “gate of a hundred pleasures”: Jazz Age Shanghai’s greatest ballroom, built by Chinese money and a Chinese architect, its neon-striped tower and…
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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.
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- 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
Edificio López Serrano, Havana
Havana’s little Rockefeller Center: a stepped apartment tower of 1932 that brought Manhattan’s skyline ambitions to Vedado — and stood as the tallest…
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, 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…
Tulsa Club Building (1927), Tulsa, Oklahoma
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…
Detroit Free Press Building (1925), Detroit, Michigan
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…
Sioux City Municipal Auditorium (1950), Sioux City, Iowa
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…
Sassoon House (Fairmont Peace Hotel), Shanghai
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…
National Tobacco Company Building, Napier
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…
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…