Palmolive Building (1929), 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Anchoring the north end of the Magnificent Mile since 1929, the Palmolive Building once carried a rotating searchlight at its crown that pilots used to…
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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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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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- 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
Carbide and Carbon Building (1929), 230 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Dark green terra cotta sheathed in gold leaf from the mid-shaft to the crown, the Carbide and Carbon Building is the most visually extravagant Art Deco tower…
Sunset Tower Hotel (1931), 8358 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, California
Howard Hughes took the penthouse, Marilyn Monroe spent weekends in residence, and Frank Sinatra famously drank in the bar — the Sunset Tower Hotel has been…
Marine Air Terminal (1939), LaGuardia Airport, Queens, New York City
Built for the great flying boats of the Pan American Clippers, the Marine Air Terminal is the oldest commercial airport terminal in active use in the United…
Chicago Board of Trade Building (1930), 141 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois
At the foot of the LaSalle Street canyon, the Chicago Board of Trade Building rises as Chicago’s most commanding Art Deco statement — crowned by an aluminum…
Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower (1929), 1 Hanson Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Visible from most of the borough, the Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower kept the tallest-building-in-Brooklyn crown for half a century — a 512-foot Art Deco…
Folger Shakespeare Library (1932), 201 East Capitol Street SE, Washington DC
One block east of the United States Capitol, Paul Philippe Cret’s white marble building houses the largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works in the…
Hoover Dam (1936), Black Canyon, Colorado River, Nevada–Arizona
The most ambitious civil engineering project of the New Deal era was not content to be merely functional: Gordon Kaufmann dressed Hoover Dam’s concrete face…
Loew’s Paradise Theatre (1929), 2403 Grand Concourse, Bronx, New York City
For six decades, the Paradise offered Bronx moviegoers the most extravagant Italian palazzo illusion John Eberson could conjure: a theater where the ceiling…
Pythian Temple (1927), 135 West 70th Street, Manhattan, New York City
A polychrome explosion of Egyptian Revival ornament on West 70th Street, the Pythian Temple was built as the New York castle of the Knights of Pythias — and…