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Art Deco is just...holy,sacred and divine. no other style has ever(and i doubt will ever) come even slightly close to its sheer beauty.Art Deco embodies the best in us and should have continued to live on. im taking this time to take off my hat off the greatest style of architecture that humanity has every spawned.
and now heres my pick for the God of all art Deco Skyscrapers, the Chrysler Building.
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That's a neo-gothic building. A few details here and there have a little bit of an art deco influence (hard to avoid, since it was built during the height of art deco), but the building is pretty thoroughly neo-gothic.
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That's what I was thinking as well, especially with the flying butresses up near the top. It almost resembles the top of a steeple on a gothic cathedral in Europe...
I must say, I find art-deco/art-modern architecture to be quite breath-taking...
Great thread; I just combed through the replies and now have a bunch of new buildings to add to the WAM database (which needs more Art Deco). The patterns of setbacks in Art Deco high-rises are always pleasing to the eye.
I bring this back, because today we reviewed here a replay movie Superman Returns and i found incredible the Art Deco building, not payed much attention first, because is superman, but now considering only the architecture and the art-deco interior of yacht... well, tremendous impressive the details, just because mainly is my preference of style. Can someone tell me if the building really exists like that? cause i found in net, don't, it was a montage, but based in a real one. Do one has pics current real building to check and comparing? fabulous if some retro-architect could put that in real... Lobby, entrance are fantastic. Found this one somewhere as reference.
Here's a beautiful Art Deco building... Now the Drury Plaza Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. It may not be 100% true Deco, I'm sure there are some additional elements that are not traditional (ie: huge stained glass window above the main entrance), but it's a freaking awesome building!
Parkview Square lobby would easily qualify as one of Singapore's most awesome ceilings...
It's perhaps not a classic ceiling, having been completed in 2003 :-)
Yeah, I agree, without knowing anything about it, it wouldn't look like it was built in 2003, but there's something really peculiar about it. Knowing that it was built recently, you can sort of tell that the space itself and the planning and that kind of stuff is recent, while the detailing isn't.
^exactly, it is what i noticed also. Wonderfully detailed made, but my conclusions are:
1. the exterior is not only art-deco, it has in main middle facade elements of post-modern with an neo-art-deco top, but the combination is wonderful simple rescuing the best part of art-deco facades, the tops and the botoms. I see also a post-modern appearance streamlined, but not equally seen in Florida, rounded in someway, seen in the 40ies years. A neo-art-deco soft in middle with more better worked top. Any way the balance all together is appropriate in the style and not too carried.
2. for interior, it came from the fact it is something like a thai taste using extreme exagerated details of plants, the common entrelace of foliage used most in small channels boats, hats and corbs, thing of artesanate mixed high in trelace with those 40ies statues/lamps elements. For me the furniture is taken from the 40ies, while the building itself was sculpid with local men force, a mix of both. This is mainly seen too much in ceilings rips, when also the gold color tendency is to a little green in them, other the yellow ton in most of the rest. Of course the whole effect is tremendous detailed beautiful, but has a campestre bamboo touch, not only future human vision of art-deco. At end is Deco and Art, art of extrem decorated, so it fits, as a neo-art-deco style with an oriental local touch. I would say also that the ceilings rips has a small resemblance of papirus or lotus immitations egypt ancient times of temples on them. But nature and human elements of art-deco, a little bit other interpreted is there.
my favorite form of architecture, too bad it doesn't appear to be making a comeback =(
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It is sorta making a half-assed comeback.
Here is a sort of wannabe-Art Deco building that is under construction in Toronto. It is called the Uptown Residences.
They cheapened it a lot which is disappointing but it isn't too bad on the skyline.
Here is what it replaced, the Uptown Theatre:
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