Not relying solely on brick, concrete ... A significant trait at the heart of Art Deco architecture is balance. Buildings are designed symmetrically: The Palais de Chaillot in Paris is a good ...
A decorative style of bold geometric shapes and bright colours, it encompassed furniture, textiles, ceramics, sculpture and architecture. The term ‘Arts Decoratifs’ (later shortened to Art Deco in the ...
Lee Whiteman of Whiteman Architects explains how the practice is extending and overhauling a ‘dated’ 1920s Art Deco house in south-west London ...
Decorative details wrap around its white-and-black brick facade ... As Patricia Bayer wrote in her 1992 book Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties ...
The 1930s art deco Seattle Asian Art Museum has gained an uplifting modern extension that reconnects the building to its surrounding park – and the museum’s 21st century future. Seattle-based LMN ...
Barbara Capitman and Leonard Horowitz visited South Miami Beach in the mid-seventies and discovered a forgotten treasure trove of American architecture ... as Moderne or Art Deco.
Sommerro, housed in a former energy company headquarters, melds the building's original neoclassical architecture with a palatial contemporary design. The glamour-driven Art Deco movement has ...