ART DECO

• Art Deco a.k.a. style modern

• movement in the decorative arts and architecture

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• Got its name
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• developed into a I
1930 major style E
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• intention was to create a sleek and anti-

traditional elegance that symbolized wealth and
sophistication.
• The distinguishing features of the style are simple, clean
shapes, often with a “streamlined” look
• ornament that is geometric or stylized from representational
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• materials, which frequently include man-made substances E
(plastics, especially Bakelite; vita-glass; and ferroconcrete) in R
addition to natural ones (jade, silver, ivory, obsidian, chrome, V
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and rock crystal). E
• Decorative ideas came from American Indian, Egyptian, and W
early classical sources as well as from nature.
• Characteristic motifs included nude female figures, animals,
foliage, and sun rays
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• Terraced crown. Y
• Interior and exterior alike S
• Distinctive ornamentation based on features that were also L
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• 30,000 tons of steel

• 4000,000 bricks
• 5,000 windows.
• The white and dark gray brickwork of the facade
emphasizes the horizontality of the rows of windows.
• The stepping spires are made of stainless steel
• stylized sunburst motif, and sit just above a series of
gargoyles that depict American eagles which stare out over
the city.

(1048 feet) high, the

Chrysler Building houses 77 floors

lobby three stories high with entrances from three sides of the
building,

More noticeable connections between the exterior of the

building and the Chrysler car are the sculptures modeled after
radiator caps and ornaments of car wheels that decorate the
lower setbacks
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50 storey– 60 storey- 80 storey E

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Developed over a hotel

Design changed-15 times
aim- world’s tallest tower
• The height of the Empire
State Building, to its 102nd
floor, is 1,250 ft (381 m).
• 203-foot (61.9 m) pinnacle.
• The building has 85 stories
of commercial and office
space representing a total of
2.158 million square feet
(200,500 m2) of rentable
space.
• It has an indoor and outdoor
observation deck on the 86th
floor, the highest floor within
the actual tower.
• The remaining 16 stories are
part of the Art Deco spire,
which is capped by an
observatory on the 102nd
floor.
• The spire is hollow with no
floors between levels 86 and
102. Atop the tower is the
203 ft (61.9 m) pinnacle,
much of which is covered by
broadcast antennas, and
surmounted with a lightning
rod.
• According to the official fact sheets the building
rises 1,860 steps from the first to the 102nd floor,
weighs 365,000 short tons (331,122 t),
• has an internal volume of 37 million cubic feet
(1,000,000 m3),
• exterior with 200,000 cubic feet (5,700 m3) of
limestone and granite.
• Construction of the tower's exterior required ten
million bricks and
• 730 short tons (650 long tons) of aluminum and
stainless steel,
• interior required 1,172 miles (1,886 km) of elevator
cable and 2 million feet (609,600 m) of electrical
wires. The building has a capacity for 20,000
tenants and 15,000 visitors.
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Folie bergère- Paris

Brohan museum – Germany
Tuschinski cinema- Amsterdam