Boerentoren (KBC Tower)
One of Europe’s first high-rise towers, an Art Deco landmark that defined the Antwerp skyline for the rest of the century.
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Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
- 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
Stærekassen
An Art Deco stage house bridged over a street, hung with bronze gods and lined with millions of pieces of Venetian glass.
Aldred Building
A limestone skyscraper that steps back toward the sky like a small Manhattan transplanted onto a seventeenth-century square.
Vancouver City Hall
A Depression-era civic tower built as an act of confidence, its clock visible across the city from a hill south of downtown.
Édifice Price
The skyscraper that slipped into a walled colonial city, wearing a copper château roof to make peace with its neighbours.
Canada Permanent Trust Building
Behind a restrained Bay Street façade, a bronze-and-marble banking hall that is one of Toronto’s finest Art Deco interiors.
Art Nouveau vs Art Deco vs Liberty: how to tell them apart
Art Nouveau and Liberty are the same curving, floral movement (1890-1915); Art Deco is the geometric style of the 1920s-30s. How to tell them apart at a glance.
Grande Hotel Ouro Preto
The Grande Hotel Ouro Preto is a landmark of Brazilian Modernism, designed by Oscar Niemeyer and completed in 1940 in the Baroque colonial city of Ouro…
Villa des Arts de Casablanca
The Villa des Arts de Casablanca is a cultural centre housed in a restored Art Déco villa in the Gauthier district of Casablanca, Morocco. One of the city’s…
Richardson Building
The Richardson Building at 1 Lombard Place in downtown Winnipeg is Manitoba’s most prominent mid-century skyscraper, a 34-storey tower completed in 1969 at…