Crossroads of the World (1936), 6671 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
Crossroads of the World is the first outdoor shopping complex ever built in the United States and one of Hollywood’s most delirious pieces of architecture: a…
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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: 19 articles · 1,216 heritage places · 8 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.
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- Le performance di beniculturalionline.it
- Scrivania Nomos 1984 c.
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- Washstand, 1904
- Sgabello Mezzadro, 1957
- Poltrona Joe, 1970
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Fox Theatre (1929), 660 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta’s Fox Theatre is the kind of building that makes you question whether you have stepped into a building at all. Its auditorium ceiling is a night sky…
Texas & Pacific Station (1931), 221 West Lancaster Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas
The Texas & Pacific Station brought the idiom of New York’s Art Deco skyscrapers to Fort Worth’s Lancaster Avenue in 1931, its stepped stone towers rising…
Starrett-Lehigh Building (1931), 601 West 26th Street, New York City, New York
The Starrett-Lehigh Building is a full city block of continuous horizontal glass — 19 stories of ribbon windows wrapping a Chelsea freight terminal in a…
Chicago Main Post Office (1932), 433 West Van Buren Street, Chicago, Illinois
The Chicago Main Post Office is the kind of building that makes you recalibrate your sense of scale. Straddling the Eisenhower Expressway and occupying an…
Washington National Airport Main Terminal (1941), Reagan National Airport, Arlington, Virginia
Designed in the final years before the United States entered the Second World War, Washington National Airport’s 1941 Main Terminal is one of a handful of…
InterContinental Chicago / Medinah Athletic Club (1929), 505 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
No other building on the Magnificent Mile announces its ambitions as extravagantly as the 1929 Medinah Athletic Club tower: a 42-story Art Deco skyscraper…
Luhrs Tower (1929), 45 West Jefferson Street, Downtown Phoenix, Arizona
Rising above Jefferson Street since 1929, the Luhrs Tower brought skyscraper ambition to the desert Southwest — a 14-story Art Deco statement that still…
National Hotel (1940), 1677 Collins Avenue, South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida
The National Hotel towers above Collins Avenue in a white Streamline Moderne facade that distills the Miami Beach Art Deco district to a single vertical…
Coca-Cola Bottling Plant (1939), 1334 South Central Avenue, Los Angeles, California
Robert Derrah designed a Coca-Cola factory as a ship running aground on South Central Avenue — and somehow made it work. The 1939 Streamline Moderne bottling…