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Originally Posted by Arriviste
The Barron building, although quite nice with some attractive and fascinating details hardly qualifies as Art Deco. It is more art Moderne if you want to get picky.Calgary's only example of Deco is The Bank of Nova Scotia on 8th Ave.
It doesn't even qualify in all fields.
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If you want to get even pickier, Art Moderne is an offshoot of Art Deco architecture. If you want to get so literal as to disqualify the said building from the Art Deco style, I might as well bring up Art Deco in its original form, at the Paris World Fair of Arts Decoratifs, which is
true and pure Art Deco. It featured awkwardly propotioned buildings that otherwise followed the vernacular of the time, with the exception of more unusual, streamlined elements of detail, which covered most of the buildings. Art Moderne was essentially America's spin on the earlier, more raw French original, exaggerating forms into more streamlined, refined masses and more proportioned detail and expression of structural elements, as well as more industrial forms (Art Deco is to Art Moderne as Daniel Burnham is to Louis Sullivan, if you will). If you're going to discount that one building as 'Moderne' and thus not Art Deco, you might as well remove virtually every building posted here in this thread as 'Moderne,' including the Chrysler Building.
Some Art Moderne, just for you:
A precursor to Art Moderne, though stylistically it is eerily fitting to the title of Art Moderne
