They re-enforce the fact that these worlds fairs were completely temporary and made from cheap materials.
But when you really take in the scale and uniformity of the structures compared to the people around them alarm bells start ringing.
Grand Arch from The World's Columbian Exposition 1893, Chicago.
Pan Am Expo, Buffalo, NY glowing in the dark. We're told that the carbon filaments inside the lightbulbs of the time glowed at a scorching 2,000c to 2,500c and the exterior surface of the glass reached 150cto 260c.
How could they safely use these on structures made of wood and plaster?
The so called French building is just named after another robber baron industrialist, or conspirator inheritor. They were the royalty of America, and just as exploitative.
@firstborn_corn The difference between the two:
Deco (1920s/30s) - resembles a machine, straight lines
Nouveau (1910s) - resembles nature. curved lines.
The abandoned Orient Express of 1883 is a reminder of a luxurious railway past.
Rotterdam city photographer Brian has captured a piece of the past in his pictures, a piece that is slowly fading from memory – the Orient Express of 1883. Only a few of these trains remain in the world, and one of them is currently in Belgium, abandoned since its last journey in December 2009.