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Art Deco

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1 A parallel movement called ________, or simply Streamline, followed close behind.

2 1933 Chicago World's Fair ________

3 The Empire State Building and ________, both in New York City, are two of the largest and best-known examples of the style.

4 [1] Its popularity peaked in Europe during the ________[2] and continued strongly in the United States through the 1930s.

5 [1][14] In the words of ________, the distinctive style of Art Deco was shaped by 'all the nervous energy stored up and expended in the War'.

6 This building serves as a great example of the ________ and its effect on Art Deco construction.

7 Art Deco also drew on Machine Age and streamline technologies[15] such as modern ________, electric lighting, the radio, the ocean liner and the skyscraper for inspiration.

8 The movement was a mixture of many different styles and movements of the early 20th century, including Neoclassical, Constructivism, Cubism, Modernism, ________, and Futurism.

9 Before destruction in World War II, ________ possessed many Art Deco buildings; a legacy of the American colonial past.

10 Mumbai, ________ has the second largest number of Art Deco buildings in the world after Miami.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Union Station in Omaha, Nebraska was the first Art Deco style train station in the United States?
  • the Century apartments is one of the first residential buildings to be built in the Art Deco style, causing it to stand out from its Beaux-Arts neighbors on Central Park West?
  • the Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse (pictured) is an Art Deco skyscraper adorned with artwork by Lee Lawrie, Carl Milles, John W. Norton, and Albert Stewart?
  • the Washoe Theater in Anaconda, Montana was the last Art Deco theater constructed in the United States?
  • the city of Swakopmund, Namibia has some of the world's best examples of German Art Deco architecture?
  • there are 94 buildings with listed status in Crawley, England, including The Beehive, a circular Art Deco building that was the world's first integrated airport terminal?
  • the colorfully-painted common room of the Jazz Age Naniboujou Club Lodge (pictured) has been called "a psychedelic marriage of Art Deco and traditional Cree Indian patterns"?
  • the Megaria (pictured), a historic movie theater in Jakarta, Indonesia, is the city's largest remaining Art Deco building?
  • the Daily Express Building (pictured), an Art Deco former printing press, is one of Manchester's only listed buildings constructed in the 1930s?
  • it was feared Seattle's Art Deco-styled Naval Reserve Armory would become a white elephant?
  • Mumbai has the world's second largest number of Art Deco buildings after Miami?
  • Tulsa's Art Deco landmark Boston Avenue Methodist Church was designed by architect Bruce Goff and Adah Robinson, his former art teacher at Tulsa's Central High School?
  • only 7 km (4.3 mi) of Vietnam's 84 km (52 mi)-long Da Lat–Thap Cham rack railway remains in service today, operated as a tourist attraction based at the Art Deco-influenced Da Lat Railway Station?
  • the 1938 Art Deco styled and heritage listed Piccadilly Cinema is the only cinema still operating in the Perth CBD?
  • the Lake George, New York, post office features aspects of modernistic and Art Deco architecture on a basic Colonial Revival building?
  • the Art Deco Montecito Apartments (pictured) had been the home of Ronald Reagan, James Cagney, Montgomery Clift, and George C. Scott before becoming a senior citizens' housing project?
  • architecture critics praised the Art Deco Ghostbusters Building, in New York City, when it opened in 1929?
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