The Coolest Building in Indianapolis
Posted by admin on November 8, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The Coolest Building in Indianapolis
Art Deco? Utility Building, Indianapolis, Indiana
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Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Art Deco (Fabulous), Art Deco (Flare), Garage Architecture (Outbuildings), Historic Preservation, Indiana, Indianapolis, Industrial, Industrial Architecture, Most Recent, Public Architecture, Techologies in Buildings and Structures, Urban Landscape · Tags Art Deco Architecture, Art Deco Buildings, Deco Style, Indiana Architecture, Indianapolis Architecture, Utility Architecture, Utility Building
Fries’ Above Ground Pool in the Art Deco Taste, Fries, Virginia
Posted by admin on December 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Fries’ Above Ground Pool in the Art Deco Taste, Fries, Virginia
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Category Architectural History, Art Deco (Fabulous), Art Deco (Flare), Built Environment, Location Location Location, Most Recent, Public Architecture, Virginia · Tags Above-ground Pool, Art Deco Architecture, Art Deco Pool, Fries VA, Fries Virginia, Virginia Architecture, WPA Buildings
The Best Bus Barn In America…Coca Cola Bottling Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
Posted by admin on June 21, 2012 · 2 Comments
The Best Bus Barn In America…Coca Cola Bottling Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
858-868 Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis, Indiana
Within the National Register of Historic Places-Listed Massachusetts Avenue Historic District of Indianapolis, Indiana–one of the great state capitols in America, the “Bus Barn” of the Indianapolis Public Schools is housed in this architectural wonder. The rather well kept resource is a [...]
Category Architectural History, Art Deco (Fabulous), Built Environment, Garage Architecture (Outbuildings), Historic Preservation, Indiana, Indianapolis, Industrial, Industrial Architecture, Most Recent, Public Architecture, Reuse, Salvage, Style Section..., Urban Landscape · Tags Architectural History, Art Deco Architecture, Bus Barn Buildings, Bus Barns, Coca Cola Architecture, Coca Cola Bottling Company, Coca Cola Bottling Works, Indianapolis Architecture, Indianapolis Public Schools, Louis Sullivan, Reuse, Sullivanesque Architecture
Apparently Everything Is Bigger In Texas…Million-Dollar Shaft Memorial…Design For The San Jacinto Monument…Intelligence Claims Tallest Monument In The World…San Jacinto Battle Field…Houston Ship Channel…Harris County, Texas
Posted by admin on March 17, 2012 · 2 Comments
Apparently Everything Is Bigger In Texas
Million-Dollar Shaft Memorial
Design For The San Jacinto Monument
Intelligence Claims Tallest Monument In The World
San Jacinto Battle Field
Houston Ship Channel
Harris County, Texas
Apparently not long after the erection of the 567.31-foot column, the San Jacinto Monument, on the Houston Ship Channel in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, a “Second Battle of San Jacinto” [...]
Category Absurd Mansard, Architectural History, Art Deco (Fabulous), Built Environment, Houston, Memorial Architectural and Art, Most Recent, Oldie But Goodie, Public Architecture, Right Up Your Alley, Style Section..., Techologies in Buildings and Structures, Texas · Tags battle of the San Jacinto, biggest building, historic sites in Texas, Houston Architecture, largest building, san jacinto monument, tallest building, tallest monument, tallest structure in the world, Texas History, texas memorials, texas monument
Shadowless Lights of Modern Operating Rooms, Hazelwood Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky
Posted by admin on December 13, 2011 · 5 Comments
While the two-over-one light wood windows within this view are no doubt original to the Circa 1895 building of the Hazelwood Sanatorium, Louisville, Kentucky, the operating room seen above has been modernized as it appears in the manner of such rooms just before the Second World War. Also known as the Association Sanatorium of Hazelwood, [...]
Category Architectural History, Art Deco (Fabulous), Art Deco (Flare), Built Environment, Curator of Shit, Historic Context, Historic Preservation, Interior, Kentucky, Location Location Location, Louisville, Medical Buildings, Medical Interiors, Modern (?), Modernistic (1920s through 1940s), Public Architecture, Style Section... · Tags Antique Medical Equipment, Curator of Shit, Cure for Tuberculosis, Hazelwood Sanatorium, Historic Medical Interiors, Louisville Architecture, Medical Equipment, Medical History, Medical Interiors, Modern Operating Rooms, Sanatorium Louisville, Tuberculosis History, Vintage Medical Equipment, Vintage Operating Room
Striking Art Modern or “Modernistic” High School Interior, Long Beach, California
Posted by admin on December 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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Category Architectural History, Art Deco (Fabulous), Built Environment, California, Location Location Location, Modern (?), Most Recent, Public Architecture · Tags Architectural History, Art Deco High School, Art Modern Interior, California Architecture, California Art Deco, California Mid Century Modern, Curator of Shit, High School Lobby, Modern Interior, Modernistic Interior
No Alleyway, No Problem…At Least Not In Kearney Street…NE Washington DC
Posted by admin on June 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment
No Alleyway, No Problem…At Least Not In Kearney Street…NE Washington DC
Interesting Residential Garage Building, 1200 Block of Kearney Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.
For those fortunate enough to climb, the terraced, uphill urban lots can often make for more private, wind-friendly and, not to mention, architectural living… What better than a Victorian or Four Square atop a [...]
Category Architectural History, Art Deco (Fabulous), Built Environment, Colonial Revival, Craftsman (Early Twenieth...), District of Columbia, Garage Architecture (Outbuildings), Historic Context, Location Location Location, Oldie But Goodie, Right Up Your Alley, Style Section..., Urban Landscape · Tags Architectural History, Brookland, Curator of Shit, garage building, NE Washington DC, Old Garage, Old Houses, Old Outbuildings
For Once We Like A Modern Storefront?
Posted by admin on April 11, 2011 · Leave a Comment
For Once We Like A Modern Storefront?
Modern Storefront, Designed by V.S. Klein, Art Director, Electrical Products Corporation, Seattle, Washington
In the early 1930s the Art Deco and Moderne styles were not individually recognizable forms, they were simply modern. Working for the Electrical Products Corporation in Seattle, V.Z. Klein spent some of his time dedicated to storefront [...]
Category Art Deco (Fabulous), Art Deco (Flare), Built Environment, Historic Context, Location Location Location, Mid-Century Modern, Modern (?), Most Recent, Public Architecture, Seattle, Style Section..., Techologies in Buildings and Structures · Tags Art Deco, Art Moderne, Modern Storefront, Seattle, Storefront Designs, Washington State Architecture
Modern Taste for Baked Bread, Nolde Brothers Inc., Norfolk, Virginia
Posted by admin on September 27, 2010 · 6 Comments
A German-American immigrant, John Henry Nolde (1867-?) officially began baking “his own” bread in Richmond, Virginia in 1892 at 25 years of age when he founded Nolde’s Bread or what would become Nolde Brothers Inc.. As was often the case, the young, single 32 year old entrepreneur and baker was still living with his 50 year [...]
Category Absurd Mansard, Art Deco (Fabulous), Art Deco (Flare), Built Environment, Location Location Location, Mid-Century Modern, Most Recent, Style Section..., Virginia · Tags Aesthetics, Architectural History, Architecture, Commercial Architecture, History, Industrial Architecture, Norfolk Virginia, Old Buildings, Taste
Brought to You by the Crash: WPA & Glendale City Hall
Posted by admin on June 8, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Brought to you by the Works Progress Administration or the Works Projects Administration or whatever the hell they were calling it in 1940 (let’s just say the WPA), this flame bag of a city hall stands in Glendale, California as a wondrous example of WPA architecture in the high style, fabulous Art Deco taste…
We’ve seen numerous city halls [...]
