Rue Vanderschrick (Blerot Ensemble), Brussels
One architect, one street, fourteen houses: on the odd side of Rue Vanderschrick, Ernest Blerot built the only complete Art Nouveau street front in Brussels…
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- Washstand, 1904
- Sgabello Mezzadro, 1957
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Hôtel Cohn-Donnay (De Ultieme Hallucinatie), Brussels
From the street it is a sober neoclassical house; push the door and 1904 takes over — Paul Hamesse’s room-by-room Art Nouveau fantasy, which a later century…
Maison Les Hiboux, Brussels
Two stylized owls perch in the sgraffito above a small low door on Avenue Brugmann, giving this 1899 house by Édouard Pelseneer its name — and one of the…
Hôtel Winssinger, Brussels
Few buildings let you watch an architect edit his own youth: Victor Horta built the Hôtel Winssinger in the 1890s — and returned in 1928 to convert it into…
Hôtel Max Hallet, Brussels
By the time Victor Horta designed this house for the lawyer Max Hallet, he no longer needed to prove anything — and the Hôtel Max Hallet shows it: a calm…
Texas and Pacific Station (1931), Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth’s Art Deco terminal: marble floors and nickel-brass zigzags, still carrying commuter trains ninety years after it opened.
Hotel Settles (1930), Big Spring, Texas
A 15-story Art Deco tower that brought big-city ambition to the West Texas Permian Basin — abandoned for thirty years, now restored as a landmark hotel.
Mercantile National Bank Building (1943), Dallas, Texas
The only major American skyscraper built during World War II — the tallest west of the Mississippi when it opened, with the world’s largest Art Deco wood…
Alberta iela 11 (Laube Building), Riga
On a street famous for gorgons and lions, Alberta iela 11 speaks quietly: grey natural stone, wood and slate, a copper sun on the bay windows — Latvian…
Elizabetes iela 10a (Pēkšēns–Eisenstein Building), Riga
Two authors share this facade: Konstantīns Pēkšēns drew the building, and Mikhail Eisenstein — taking over during construction — dressed it in some of the…