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Old 02-19-2020, 04:33 PM
 
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There are five Cleveland art deco buildings alone that are part of what is now called the Tower City complex in Cleveland -- the former Cleveland Union Terminal building (currently a shopping mall); the Medical Arts Building, Builders Exchange Building, and the Midland Building, now collectively referred to as the Landmark Office Towers; and the 1934 U.S. Main Post Office (now an office plaza). All were built in the late 1920s and early 1930s as part of the Union Terminal group. These are very large buildings, all connected as part of the Cleveland Union Terminal group, which also included the Terminal Tower, the Higbee's department store (now the downtown Cleveland casino) and the Hotel Cleveland (now the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel).



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_City_Center


https://case.edu/ech/articles/c/clev...union-terminal



A visit to the former Cleveland Union Terminal – I Ride The Harlem Line…



https://www.emporis.com/buildings/12...eveland-oh-usa


https://www.20thcs.org/monday-may-15th/


https://www.20thcs.org/cleveland-2017/



The iconic Terminal Tower, the second tallest building in the world after the Woolworth Building in NYC when it was completed in the last 1920s, rises above the rest of Tower City, but was built in the Beaux Arts architectural style.


The AT&T building on Huron Road also was built in the art deco fashion.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T..._Road_Building


Severance Hall, home of the renown Cleveland Orchestra, has a famous interior heavily influenced by art deco, especially in its auditorium.


https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr...htmlstory.html



https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/p...lding-history/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severa...l#Architecture


Click on the images here:


https://www.dmsas.com/project/severance-hall/

Cleveland has two great examples of Art Moderne art deco architecture -- its 70-year-old Greyhound Bus Station and its former U.S. Coast Guard Station. Both buildings still are in use after life-saving renovations.



<<Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. It was inspired by aerodynamic design. Streamline architecture emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements.>>


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamline_Moderne


https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2015..._clevelan.html



https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2015..._lesson_i.html



https://clevelandhistorical.org/items/show/483


https://www.cleveland.com/entertainm...unveils_h.html


Another art deco classic in Cleveland is the Hope Memorial Bridge with its "Guardians of Traffic" statues.


https://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the...ans-of-traffic


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Memorial_Bridge


Fenn Tower, a 22-story university dormitory, often is listed as an art deco building.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ture#Cleveland


Other buildings listed above are questionable examples of art deco.

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Old 02-19-2020, 08:50 PM
 
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Always a fan of the old union building by E. 22nd and Payne by CSU
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5061...7i16384!8i8192
For sheer open-mouthed gorgeous Art Deco though, gotta head to Cincy for their Union Terminal. If it wasn't for my love of the Arcade, I'd say it's the most spectacular building in Ohio, inside and out. Do the free tour: awesome.

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Old 02-20-2020, 03:11 AM
 
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Always a fan of the old union building by E. 22nd and Payne by CSU
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.5061...7i16384!8i8192
For sheer open-mouthed gorgeous Art Deco though, gotta head to Cincy for their Union Terminal. If it wasn't for my love of the Arcade, I'd say it's the most spectacular building in Ohio, inside and out. Do the free tour: awesome.
The most spectacular art deco building in Cincinnati IMO is the Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, although I well understand the argument for the Cincinnati Union Terminal.

https://cincinnatiusa.com/article/ar...ctural-history

<<Open since 1931, the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza hotel is one of the world’s finest examples of French Art Deco design. >>

https://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/oh...PHF/index.html

The Moyer Ohio Judicial Center in Columbus is a very distinguished art deco building, especially its main floor interior.

Louisville Art Deco - Columbus, OH Ohio Judicial Center

Personally, I think the spectacular interior of Severance Hall, as well as its extraordinary and enduring functionality (e.g., acoustics), especially after its renovation/idealized completion at the beginning of this century, makes Severance Hall the best building in Ohio.

A similar argument could be made for the renovated and expanded Cleveland Museum of Art, which may offer the most enjoyable art museum visit in the U.S. In my experience, only the purposely built and relatively small Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, CA, resonated as much with me. I don't think I'm being biased. I never particularly enjoyed the Cleveland Museum of Art before its massive reconstruction. And the fact that the CMA is one of the top-rated U.S. art museums by TripAdvisor.com reviewers suggests that my opinion is shared by many, as certainly museums such as the Met have a much more spectacular collection of art. The CMA's physical display of its collection, with large amounts of filtered natural light, greatly enhances its superb collection.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attracti...ed_States.html

See the November 2019 review here by KJCM610, who well expresses my opinion of the new home of the CMA:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attracti...o.html#REVIEWS

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Old 02-20-2020, 08:58 AM
 
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As great and handsome a landmark Terminal Tower is for Cleveland, it was dated and somewhat disappointing for the era in which it was built -- clearly the emerging Art Deco era of the late 1920s and into the 30s. Beaux Arts, while stately and attractive, is more staid and conservative and really went out of style for large buildings after World War I. As I mentioned in an earlier thread, I'm a big fan of NYC's Chrysler Building. Unfortunately for the Union Terminal complex, the architects, the famed firm of ‎Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, were rather hemmed in by the architecture of the Hotel Cleveland (now Renaissance Hotel), built in the Beaux Arts style in 1918, 11 years before TT's completion (and yet such conservatism reflected the tastes of the Van Sweringens who built the hotel). As such Art Deco would likely have clashed for TT creating an architecturally confusing complex.

However the shorter (now) Landmark office towers, shielded behind TT, are indeed Art Deco, and work well as a unit visually.
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