Skyscrapers: Art Deco
Sep. 30th, 2008 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebTulsa has the third most art deco buildings of any city in the US (beaten by New York and Miami), so we went on a walking tour. The ones we saw were mostly skyscrapers, which I found to be not as much fun as the little two- and three-story hotels we saw in Miami.
For example, here's the Oklahoma Natural Gas Company Building (Noble) (1928) - a zig-zag building "constructed of reinforced concrete, enclosed with buff tapestry brick and Indiana limestone," according to my walking tour description. Zig-zag is the earliest, most ornamented style of art deco, the style popular in the 1920s.
Here's the Public Service Company of Oklahoma (TransOK) Building (1928) constructed as a zig-zag art deco style building; Robin prefers the addition on the right.
If you know what a Bell building looks like, you can recognize this one, even if the tower is camouflaged. Here's the Southwestern Bell Main Dial Building (1924), a zig-zag art deco building.
There are other styles of frou-frou, too. This is my favorite:
If you prefer the classical style, you might like this "MVNICIPAL BVILDING."
My favorite thing was probably the doorway on the gothic revival Trinity Episcopal Church.
This "Auto Hotel" also amused me. (Yes, I do think it's a parking garage.)
For example, here's the Oklahoma Natural Gas Company Building (Noble) (1928) - a zig-zag building "constructed of reinforced concrete, enclosed with buff tapestry brick and Indiana limestone," according to my walking tour description. Zig-zag is the earliest, most ornamented style of art deco, the style popular in the 1920s.
Here's the Public Service Company of Oklahoma (TransOK) Building (1928) constructed as a zig-zag art deco style building; Robin prefers the addition on the right.
If you know what a Bell building looks like, you can recognize this one, even if the tower is camouflaged. Here's the Southwestern Bell Main Dial Building (1924), a zig-zag art deco building.
There are other styles of frou-frou, too. This is my favorite:
If you prefer the classical style, you might like this "MVNICIPAL BVILDING."
My favorite thing was probably the doorway on the gothic revival Trinity Episcopal Church.
This "Auto Hotel" also amused me. (Yes, I do think it's a parking garage.)