Streamline Moderno

Lo stile Streamline Moderno fu una derivazione dell'ultimo stile Art Decò che si sviluppò negli anni '30. Il suo stile architettonico enfatizza le forme curve, lunghe linee orizzontali ed alcuni elementi nautici.

Si affermò prevalentemente negli Stati Uniti d'America.

Caratteristiche

• Orientazione orizzontale
• Angoli arrotondati
• Finestre ad angolo
• Uso di vetrocemento
• Uso di finestre oblò
• Pareti lisce
• Tetti piatti
• Onde o linee disegnate sulle pareti
• Colori tenui: predominio di colori tipo terra, bianco opaco, o beige, come base e colori scuri o metallici nelle decorazioni per contrastare.

Esempi in Architettura

• 1926: Long Beach Airport Main Terminal, Long Beach, California
• 1930: Strand Palace Hotel, Londra. Foyer progettato da Oliver Percy Bernard
• 1930–1934: Broadway Mansions, Shanghai, progettato da B. Flazer of Palmer and Turner
• 1931: The Eaton's Seventh Floor a Toronto, Canada, progettato da Jacques Carlu.
• 1931: Napier, Nuova Zelanda, ricostruita in stile Art Deco e Streamline Moderno dopo un terremoto.
• 1933: Ty Kodak, Quimper, Francia, progettato da Olier Mordrel.
• 1933: Southgate tube station, Londra
• 1933: Burnham Beeches a Sherbrooke, Victoria, Australia. Architetto Harry Norris.
• 1933: Merle Norman Building, Santa Monica, California
• 1933: Midland Hotel, Morecambe, Morecambe, Regno Unito.
• 1933–1940: Interni del Museo delle Scienze di Chicago, progettati da Alfred Shaw
• 1934: Hotel Shangri-La, Santa Monica, California
• 1935: Ford Building, Balboa Park, Balboa Park
• 1935: The De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, Regno Unito
• 1935: Pan Pacific Auditorium, Los Angeles
• 1935: Edificio Internacional de Capitalización, Città del Messico, Mexico
• 1935: Interni della Lansdowne House, Londra.
• 1936: Lasipalatsi, a Helsinki, Finlandia.
• 1936: Florin Court, Londra, costruito da Guy Morgan and Partners.
• 1937: B and B Chemical Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, costruito da Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott.
• 1937: Belgium Pavilion, per l'Exposition Internationale, Parigi
• 1937: TAV Studios (Brenemen's Restaurant), Hollywood
• 1937: Hecht Company Warehouse, Washington, DC
• 1937: Minerva (or Metro) Theatre e Minerva Building, Potts Point, New South Wales, Australia
• 1937: Bather's Building in the Aquatic Park Historic District, now the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Maritime Museum.
• 1937: Barnum Hall (High School auditorium), Santa Monica, California
• 1937: J.W. Knapp Company Building (department store) Lansing, Michigan
• 1937: Wan Chai Market, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
• 1937: River Oaks Shopping Center, Houston
• 1938: Mark Keppel High School, Alhambra, California
• 1938: Normandie building, Mar del Plata
• 1939: Bartlesville High School, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
• 1938: Danum House, Doncaster, Regno Unito.
• 1939: Coca-Cola Building, Los Angeles, California
• 1939: First Church of Deliverance, Chicago, Illinois
• 1939: Marine Air Terminal, LaGuardia Airport, New York
• 1939: Road Island Diner, Oakley, Utah
• 1939: New York World's Fair
• 1939: Cardozo Hotel, Ocean Drive, South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida
• 1939 Royer Building Ephrata, PA
• 1940: Greyhound Bus Station, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• 1940: Jai Alai Building, Taft Avenue Manila, Filippine (demolito)
• 1940: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, California
• 1940: Las Vegas Union Pacific Station, Las Vegas, Nevada
• 1941: Avalon Hotel, Ocean Drive, South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida
• 1942: Normandie Hotel a San Juan, Puerto Rico
• 1942: Mercantile National Bank Building, Dallas
• 1944: Huntridge Theater, Las Vegas, Nevada
• 1946: Gerry Building, Los Angeles, California
• 1946: Broadway Theatre, Saskatoon, Canada
• 1947: Sears Building, Santa Monica, California
• 1948: Greyhound Bus Station, Cleveland
• 1949: Sault Memorial Gardens, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
• 1949: Varsity Theatre, Davis, California

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