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Club Moderne, Anaconda, Montana.Designed by Fred F. Willson, 1937. 1430 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, Florida, on a c. 1940 postcard.. Moderne architecture, also sometimes referred to as Style Moderne or simply Moderne, Jazz Age, Moderne, [1] Jazz Modern or Jazz style, describes certain styles of architecture popular from 1925 through the 1940s.
The Club Moderne is a bar in Anaconda, Montana, United States, in the Streamline Moderne style. It was designed by architect Fred F. Willson and built by Frank Wullus in 1937 for John Francisco. The facade was clad in Carrara glass .
The Shangri-La Apartment Hotel opened on May 1, 1940. Designed by William E. Foster, it was constructed by Tulsa-Santa Monica Corporation/F.A. Gillespie & Sons at a cost of $400,000. [ 1 ] The building originally had nine double apartments and two bachelor apartments on each of the first five floors, five luxury apartments on the sixth floor ...
Club Moderne, Anaconda, MT, built 1937 Fred Fielding Willson (November 11, 1877 – August 13, 1956), most commonly known as Fred F. Willson , was an architect in Bozeman, Montana who designed many buildings that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
The term "International Style" was first used in 1932 by the historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock and architect Philip Johnson to describe a movement among European architects in the 1920s that was distinguished by three key design principles: (1) "Architecture as volume – thin planes or surfaces create the building’s form, as opposed to a solid mass"; (2) "Regularity in the facade, as ...
The palm court of the 19th century was reinvented by John Portman who created an influential design of grand atrium for the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in 1967. [13]Contemporary hotel design can be sophisticated and functional, involving specialist architects and designers, [14] environmental and structural engineers, interior designers and skilled contractors and suppliers, particularly for large ...
Moderne may refer to: Moderne architecture, styles of architecture popular from 1925–1940s; PWA Moderne, an architectural style in the U.S., 1933–1944; Streamline Moderne, a branch of Art Deco architecture which peaked in popularity around 1937; Wiener Moderne, the culture of Vienna, Austria, 1890–1910; Grand Hotel Moderne, in Lourdes, France
The Normandie Hotel is a historic building located in the Isleta de San Juan, in San Juan, Puerto Rico which opened on October 10, 1942 as a hotel. Its design was inspired by the French transatlantic passenger ship SS Normandie in addition to featuring the same Art Deco design as the ocean liner that inspired it, and the hotel's original roof sign was one of the two signs that adorned the top ...