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Thus Art Nouveau architecture accounts for one-third of all the buildings in the centre of Riga, making it the city with the highest concentration of such buildings anywhere in the world. The quantity and quality of Art Nouveau architecture was among the criteria for including Riga in UNESCO World Cultural Heritage. [145]
Art Nouveau temples are churches, chapels, synagogues, and mosques built in the style known as Art Nouveau in French and English languages (also Modern Style or Glasgow style in the latter one), Jugendstil in Germany and Nordic countries, Secessionsstil in countries of former Austro-Hungary, Modernisme in Catalan, Modern in Russian, Stile Liberty or Stile Floreale in Italian.
Our guide to Art Nouveau architecture explores the late 19th-century movement known for flowing lines and organic forms and how it influenced the culture.
Art Nouveau church buildings (1 C, 7 P) S. Art Nouveau synagogues (29 P) This page was last edited on 18 November 2024, at 12:57 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Particularly, this design ethos reconciled the modern aesthetic ideals with religion, since this particular motif was not inimical to the priorities of the modern Italian architects. It gave rise to the so-called "secular-spirituality" – an element in Italian modernism – that focuses on the concept of enlightened rationalism. [ 1 ]
Lavirotte Building (1901) The Lavirotte Building, an apartment building at 29 Avenue Rapp in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, was designed by the architect Jules Lavirotte and built between 1899 and 1901. The building is one of the best-known surviving examples of Art Nouveau architecture in Paris.
A building designed for a textile manufacturer and constructed in 1899, which served as both a commercial property (in the basement and on the ground floor) and a residence. In 1900 it received an award for the best building of the year from the Barcelona City Council. Hospital de Sant Pau: Carrer de St. Antoni Mª Claret, 167
Another example of art deco was the building that was erected on the corner of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, which was built in 1926 to a design by engineer Bonadè-Bottino to house the Palazzo del Cinema, later Cinema Corso, at the time the largest movie theater in Italy; [note 23] despite its destruction in a fire on March 9, 1980, the ...