World Architecture Images- Streamline / Art Moderne

Essential Architecture- Search by style Streamline / Art Moderne

1926 - Long Beach Airport Main Terminal, Long Beach, California	1931 - The Eaton's Seventh Floor, Toronto, Canada	1933 - Burnham Beeches in Sherbrooke, Victoria, Australia. Harry Norris architect.

De La Warr Pavilion- 1935, Art Deco, the first major Modernist public building in Britain, Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex.	De La Warr Pavilion- Shapes tend towards streamlined, industrially-influenced designs	De La Warr Pavilion- A dramatic stairwell in the pavilion.

Pan-Pacific Auditorium, Los Angeles, California. Wurdeman and Becket, 1935. Destroyed by fire in 1989.	1936 - Minneapolis Armory, Minneapolis, Minnesota	1937 - Wan Chai Market, Wan Chai,Hong Kong

1939 - New York World's Fair. Jewish Palestine Pavilion.	1937 - River Oaks Shopping Center, Houston, Texas	1946 - Gerry Building, Los Angeles, California

1949 - Sault Memorial Gardens, Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario	Metro Cinema, Kings Cross Sydney	Bather's Building, now a maritime museum at San Francisco's Aquatic Park, 1937, evokes a streamlined double–ended ferryboat

1934 Chrysler Airflow sedan	1942 Nash Ambassador Slipstream sedan.	Airstream trailer

Bakelite radio	Toaster

De La Warr Pavilion- The pavilion in sunlight: "suitable for a holiday resort in the south of England" Pan-Pacific Auditorium, Los Angeles, California. Streamline was influenced by the modern aerodynamic designs, including those emerging from advancing technologies in aviation, ballistics, and other fields requiring high velocity. The attractive shapes resulting from scientifically applied aerodynamic principles were enthusiastically adopted within Art Deco, applying streamlining techniques to other useful objects in everyday life, such as the automobile. Although the Chrysler Airflow design of 1933 was commercially unsuccessful, it provided the lead for more conservatively designed pseudo-streamlined vehicles. These "streamlined" forms began to be used in the design of mundane and static objects such as pencil sharpeners and refrigerators. Art Deco celebrates the Machine Age through explicit use of man-made materials (particularly glass and stainless steel), symmetry, and repetition, modified by Asian influences such as the use of silks and Middle Eastern designs. It was strongly adopted in the United States during the Great Depression for its practicality and simplicity, while still portraying a reminder of better times and the "American Dream".
Streamline Moderne Streamline Moderne, sometimes referred to by either name alone, was a late branch of the Art Deco design style. Its architectural style emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements (such as railings and porthole windows). It reached its height in 1937. The style was the first to incorporate electric light into architectural structure. In the First Class dining room of the SS Normandie, fitted out 1933 – 35, twelve tall pillars of Lalique glass and 38 columns lit from within illuminated the room. The Strand Palace Hotel foyer (1930), preserved from demolition by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1969, marked one of the first uses of internally-lit architectural glass, and coincidentally was the first Moderne interior preserved in a museum. Although Streamline Moderne houses are less common than streamline commercial buildings, residences do exist. The Lydecker House in Los Angeles, built by Howard Lydecker, is an example of Streamline Moderne design in residential architecture. Judge's tower at San Francisco's Aquatic Park Notable examples 1926 - Long Beach Airport Main Terminal, Long Beach, California 1928 - Lockheed Vega, designed by John Northrop, a four-passenger single engine aircraft, made famous by the use of Amelia Earhart. 1930 - Strand Palace Hotel, London. Foyer designed by Oliver P. Bernard 1931 - The Eaton's Seventh Floor (including the Eaton Auditorium and the Round Room restaurant) in Toronto, Canada, designed by Jacques Carlu, located in the former Eaton's department store. 1931 - Napier, New Zealand, rebuilt in Art Deco and Streamline Moderne styles after a major earthquake. 1933 - Burnham Beeches in Sherbrooke, Victoria, Australia. Harry Norris architect. 1933- The Lawson "Zephyr" clock designed by Kem Weber for Lawson Time of Alhambra, CA. 1933 - Merle Norman Building, Santa Monica, California See also History of Santa Monica, California 1933 - Midland Hotel, Morecambe, England. 1933-1940 - The interior of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, designed by Alfred Shaw 1934 - Chrysler Airflow, the first mass-market streamline automotive design 1935 - The De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, England 1935 - Pan Pacific Auditorium, Los Angeles, California 1935 - Edificio Internacional de Capitalización, Mexico City, Mexico 1935 - The Hindenburg, zeppelin passenger accommodations 1935 - The interior of Lansdowne House on Berkeley Square in Mayfair, London is redesigned and redecorated in the Art Moderne style and opens as the Lansdowne Club. 1936 - Minneapolis Armory, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1937 - Belgium Pavilion, at the Exposition Internationale, Paris 1937 - TAV Studios (Brenemen's Restaurant), Hollywood, California 1937 - Minerva (or Metro) Theatre and the Minerva Building, Potts Point, New South Wales, Australia 1937 - Bather's Building at San Francisco's Aquatic Park 1937 - Barnum Hall (High School auditorium), Santa Monica, California 1937 - Wan Chai Market, Wan Chai,Hong Kong 1937 - River Oaks Shopping Center, Houston, Texas 1938 - Mark Keppel High School, Alhambra, California 1938 - Normandie building, Mar del Plata, Argentina 1939 - Marine Air Terminal, La Guardia Airport, New York (pictured) 1939 - New York World's Fair 1939 - Cardozo Hotel, Ocean Drive, South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida 1940 - Gabel Kuro jukebox designed by Brooks Stevens 1940 - Greyhound Bus Station, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1940 - Las Vegas Union Pacific Station, Las Vegas, Nevada 1941 - Avalon Hotel, Ocean Drive, South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida 1942 - Mercantile National Bank Building, Dallas 1944 - Huntridge Theater, Las Vegas, Nevada 1946 - Gerry Building, Los Angeles, California 1947 - Sears Building, Santa Monica, California 1948 - Greyhound Bus Station, Cleveland, Ohio 1949 - Sault Memorial Gardens, Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario Influences Industrial and consumer product design The style was applied to appliances such as electric clocks, sewing machines, small radio receivers and vacuum cleaners. These also employed developments in materials science including aluminum and bakelite. Motion Pictures The buildings in Frank Capra's 1937 movie Lost Horizon, designed by Stephen Goosson The design of the "Emerald City" in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz