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London Deco: Offices Part 2
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- Gregory Edwards
- Sortie:
- Jan 5, 2016
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- 9781310946547
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Take a journey into a part of London that you never knew existed. Explore the city’s many Art Deco office buildings in a profusely illustrated two part ebook by award winning author Gregory Edwards. In amongst the great jumble of styles present in Central London you will find the Art Deco offices that were created between the two world wars when London rebuilt itself and expanded with bright new styles in all directions. Many of these buildings survived the blitz and can still be seen. Part 1 moves from the buildings on the riverside, once a major form of urban transport, through offices in Victoria, Mayfair, Soho, and Fitzrovia to the West End. In Part 2 the historical survey continues through the glory days of Fleet Street's newspaper business through to the financial district and beyond. In addition to this you will discover offices in recent years created here in a Post-Modernist style that recaptures and adds to the original Art Deco period of the twenties and thirties. There is also a chapter called 'Art Deco cemetery' about buildings that have fallen due to the pressure of progress, and mention of some that are still around but under threat from development.
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London Deco: Offices Part 2
Description
Take a journey into a part of London that you never knew existed. Explore the city’s many Art Deco office buildings in a profusely illustrated two part ebook by award winning author Gregory Edwards. In amongst the great jumble of styles present in Central London you will find the Art Deco offices that were created between the two world wars when London rebuilt itself and expanded with bright new styles in all directions. Many of these buildings survived the blitz and can still be seen. Part 1 moves from the buildings on the riverside, once a major form of urban transport, through offices in Victoria, Mayfair, Soho, and Fitzrovia to the West End. In Part 2 the historical survey continues through the glory days of Fleet Street's newspaper business through to the financial district and beyond. In addition to this you will discover offices in recent years created here in a Post-Modernist style that recaptures and adds to the original Art Deco period of the twenties and thirties. There is also a chapter called 'Art Deco cemetery' about buildings that have fallen due to the pressure of progress, and mention of some that are still around but under threat from development.
- Éditeur:
- Gregory Edwards
- Sortie:
- Jan 5, 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781310946547
- Format:
- Livre
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London Deco - Gregory Edwards
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Preface
The London Deco project began in 1996 out of a gradual attempt to catalogue the countless manifestations of Art Deco architecture that were to be found in the city. To throw a big net around all that which might fit into some context of Art Deco does not guarantee recording every single building which might fall into this category, but nonetheless still attempts something of this sort. London is an immense city and sifting out suitable candidates from its endless streets has taken time... and time has taken its toll, from the bombings of the war to the constant demand for land for development.
In fact this has proven a fascinating, if at times daunting task, as the period between the wars, when most, but not all, of these were built, saw a building boom not only in the city, but also expanding ever outwards to distant and newer suburbs. Some British architects made use of the new ideas that came from Europe and America at the start of the twentieth century, but these were frequently mixed in with existing styles. These can often be found in areas replete with many historical forms, and thus often tend to blend in invisibly with their surroundings.
With hindsight, looking at the many buildings throughout this book, we might automatically consider that British architects in the early years of the twentieth century were either terribly conservative, or saddled with clients who were. The truth is that the country was at the same time always interested in innovation, yet rather suspicious of modernity, and preferred to update and hybridize familiar styles, rather than leaping forward with any of the shattering new ones.
After the end of World War l Britain was still in the possession of a considerable empire, and many commercial concerns engaged in the construction of substantial new office blocks for themselves, or building new ones. We will look here at these, and other Art Deco offices in the centre of London. There will also be a chapter dedicated to buildings and their architectural details of note that no longer inhabit the city.
Finally, it was Post-Modernist architecture that brought about the reappraisal of the application of Art Deco’s specific forms, and London now has many contemporary buildings that either incorporate Art Deco decorative pastiche elements, or take from its vocabulary of forms. This new generation will also be examined
Introduction
The Growth of the Office in Mid-war London: Stepping Up
London's offices began to ascend further upwards in the late nineteenth century era of Victorian gingerbread, with architects beginning to make buildings more than six storeys high. Any British architects who had been to American cities at this time would certainly have been inspired by the astonishing vertical race taking place among their transatlantic counterparts. Though never hitting the sky-scraping heights, and rarely matching the polychrome splendour of those new towers in New York, Chicago, and other major American cities, there are some exceptional examples in central London.
Similarly, while there were, with the exception of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, no British architects who directly contributed to the extensive vocabulary of visual elements
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