Luigi De Marchi, Author at CulturalHeritageOnline - CHO

The Beehive, Gatwick

The world’s first circular airport terminal (1936), a Streamline Moderne landmark at the original Gatwick Airport.

A 1928 London cigarette factory in Egyptian Art Deco, its entrance guarded by two giant black cats.

Valencia’s Modernista central market (1914–1928): a vast hall of iron, glass and ceramic crowned by a dome with a weathervane parrot.

Demetrio Ribes’s Valencian Art Nouveau railway station (1906–1917), its façade and halls covered in citrus-themed ceramics and mosaic.

Daniel Burnham’s State Street department store (1892–1914), crowned by the largest Tiffany Favrile glass mosaic dome of its kind.

Michelin’s 1911 London headquarters, an Art Nouveau building tiled with racing cars and glazed with the Michelin Man himself.

Josef Hoffmann’s 1905 health retreat near Vienna: a white cube of the Vienna Secession and an early reinforced-concrete building.

Roger Gonthier’s Art Deco railway station for Limoges (1924–1929), with a tall campanile and a copper dome.

Art Nouveau steel market hall of 1909 in central Warsaw, restored in 2016 as a public food hall.

Georges Labro’s 1937 Art Deco air terminal at Paris–Le Bourget, now the entrance to the Air and Space Museum.