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 ...

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.