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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2010 11:02:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2010 11:08:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2010 18:13:53 GMT
The most amazing thing about South Beach is that so much of this architecture managed to survive. And the great thing now is that the new buildings being constructed often take their inspiration from the streamline moderne style.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2010 20:34:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2010 20:44:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2010 20:52:38 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 28, 2010 23:49:10 GMT
Beyond cool!!! Thanks for the pics of the fish house, which I have decided you did just for me. I would kill & die to have that octopus door. I have been scrutinizing the pictures and think I really need to do some research. The look is so cohesive that it achieves that idealized feel of the "world of tomorrow!" as featured on the covers of old Popular Science magazines. It would be interesting to know which were built during the heydey of the deco period and which were put up later. It's your picture #5 at which I most marvel. There are so many buildings shown and they give the effect of having carefully been planned to fit together so pleasingly. Then, you closed in on #6 and even more tightly on #7, and the rightness, fitness, and proportion were never lost. And ooooooo -- the colors in #7 make my heart thrill!
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Post by lola on Jan 29, 2010 1:53:34 GMT
Casimira, how did you do that? These are great. There was a motel on old Rte. 66 through St.Louis called the Coral Court, no longer there but apparently became quite the No Tell Motel in its later years, was haunted and who knows what else.
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Post by lola on Jan 29, 2010 2:04:23 GMT
These remind me of the Fred and Ginger interiors where all the furniture is white and all the women wear bias cut.
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Post by imec on Jan 29, 2010 2:12:28 GMT
Fantastic casimira! I absolutely love this stuff! And, like kerouac, I think it's very cool how they've borrowed some of the design elements to make the new buildings co-exist somewhat harmoniously. Thanks so much for posting these!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 29, 2010 2:47:16 GMT
These remind me of the Fred and Ginger interiors where all the furniture is white and all the women wear bias cut. Bias cut! Yes Lola -- that wonderful lost elegance!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2010 10:49:21 GMT
Thanks good people. It was great fun to ride around on the bicycle and never know what I would find (was also a bit dangerous as I would see something and almost screech to a halt,the Fish House and the Barbizon being good examples.)The Fish House,which was actually called "Cyclon" was way off the beaten path when I saw it.The stop I made for that bordered on reckless. I know this is somewhere I will return to many,many times. Perhaps,on the next visit,I will be able to find out more on the history of. The colors really did send me,the pastels and the blue blue sky backdrop.
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Post by traveler63 on Jan 29, 2010 16:26:34 GMT
I love!!!!! these pictures and I have always been a great fan of Art Deco and I think this is a great piece. Thank you.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 4, 2010 21:03:02 GMT
So Miami is beautiful.....I can't get over how wonderful those buildings are. Thank you, Casi, for taking so much time and trouble taking and posting the sublime pictures. Isn't it amazing that you came across 'our' port house? It's nice to see the whole building.
I see there wasn't much traffic on the streets. Is it always quiet like that?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2010 3:05:34 GMT
So Miami is beautiful.....I can't get over how wonderful those buildings are. Thank you, Casi, for taking so much time and trouble taking and posting the sublime pictures. Isn't it amazing that you came across 'our' port house? It's nice to see the whole building. I see there wasn't much traffic on the streets. Is it always quiet like that? Thank you Spindrift,it was fun to do. Yes, Miami Beach,what I saw,was beautiful,clean,good bike paths,marvelous beaches,people and the fabulous architecture. Happing upon the "port building",was a thrill,I had no idea it was in South Beach,and am glad I didn't know beforehand,added to the thrill of it. Ocean Drive,the main drag ,looks quiet and deserted in the pics as it was early enough in the day,actually just around mid morning. It does get busy,particularly late afternoon into the night.I did not find it obnoxiously so though, at night,lots of people out strolling,having a good time.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2010 5:51:22 GMT
When I drove on Ocean Drive in mid morning, it was all quite calm. I can imagine how crowded it my get in the evening, like the opening credits of "Miami Vice."
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Post by spindrift on Feb 5, 2010 10:04:33 GMT
Now I know where the South Beach Diet hails from!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2010 19:50:25 GMT
This is directly behind the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 7, 2010 4:03:32 GMT
Beautiful building, Kerouac. From what I can see, it doesn't jar with the building right next to it on the right of the picture. Do you have any idea of the year? It's hard to figure whether it's truly from the age of deco, or whether it's a sensitive design from later, made to "fit in" on that street. I'm basing my conjecture on what little I can see of the building on the extreme left in the picture.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2010 5:55:08 GMT
I'm pretty sure that it dates from the actual "streamline" period, but I didn't check the date on it. I did try to check the date on the building right next to my office, which is similar, but I could not find a date marked anywhere.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2010 20:17:03 GMT
Fabulous building! What is it? Somehow,looks maybe a little more contemporary,the windows maybe,are they 'smoked' or is it the light?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2010 20:27:59 GMT
The windows are normal -- those are just shadows. Supermarket on the ground floor; I don't know what is upstairs.
The roof garden looks like it might be amazing.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2010 20:35:49 GMT
Yes, the roof garden does look like it could use Casimira....I want to live there,will arrange for free room and board in exchange for horticulture duties....see what you can do for me eh K?
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 7, 2010 21:30:31 GMT
I don't want to unstreamline this thread, but must pass on this link. I found while looking for information on the area around the Centre Pompidou. tons of other cool stuff on the site, too
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2010 4:50:20 GMT
The building I photographed is on rue du Renard if you want to locate it on the map on that link.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 8, 2010 8:56:55 GMT
Did I tell you guys that most of the male ancestors in my father's family were architects around the city of Bristol, building churches and Georgian squares?
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2010 17:54:26 GMT
No, but it sounds like a photo essay just waiting to happen, Spindrift! The photo below was a real "Duh!" moment. I had taken the picture in order to capture the interesting bombé wrought iron on the windows. Only after I looked at my photos at home did I notice the streamline moderness of the building.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2010 18:42:48 GMT
It's a sort of "Pueblo Streamline Moderne" -- it seems to me that a lot of the 'Spanish Mission' style is quite rounded like Streamline Moderne. Remember the Alamo!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2010 21:35:40 GMT
This is the building adjacent to my office.
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Post by Jazz on Feb 18, 2010 22:45:19 GMT
This is a great thread. Casimira, your photos of south beach are simply, great.
Kerouac, the roof garden looks very intriguing. hmmm...when it is spring and warm and lush, I think that you should go and take photos of it.
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