Bandukwala Manzil, Mohammed Ali Road
Year:1936
Driving on the JJ Flyover, over Mohammed Ali Road, gives you an excellent vantage point to admire the mix of building styles along this stretch, ranging from Neoclassical and Indo-Saracenic to Art Deco. (1/4)
When Embassy Court #Brighton opened in 1935 the ground floor waiting hall featured this mural by E McKnight Kauffer. It used photographic fragments, just like his posters for the #Underground, with a section through the #RoyalPavilion on the rear wall
In honour of the Queensway Tunnel under the Mersey, which opened on this day in 1934, here's one of the original toll booths. Now rehomed outside the mighty George's Dock ventilation station, built to monitor, and control the air in the tunnel.
Really recommend - as a special treat - a stay at the Midland Hotel in Morecambe. Thank goodness this 1930s gem was rescued from its previous sorry state and re-opened in 2008 @mod_in_metro@ArtDecoist@Artdecopolis@C20Society
2016 Memorial to Frank Pick, London Transport's 1st Chief Executive. Mastermind behind many of the London Underground's designs. Beauty Immortality, designed by Langlands & Bell is mounted on the wall of the ticket hall at Piccadilly Circus Station.
#WednesdayMotiviation - The Federal Reserve Building was designed by Franco-American architect Paul Cret. His influence was ancient Egypt. He designed many Stars and Stripes #USArmy, etc., monuments and great buildings that fathered #artdeco. Here's a thread of his work.
Nathan Marsak peeps into the past for an interlude on his tour of modernist Bunker Hill. The cool CalEdison lobby is a symphony in colored stone. #esotouricroadtrip#dtla#artdeco