How about some Art Deco...

[rjsterry]

Apologies, will get the hang of the new forum soon.

 

[briantrumpet]

For more wide-ranging stuff, including dislikes, I've made this architectural refuge:

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/buildings-and-architecture-good-and-bad.301756/#post-7373714

Hmm, wonder if that might be better in the photo section... 🤔

 

[briantrumpet]

Apologies, will get the hang of the new forum soon.

At my rate of learning, you'll be expert by 2039.

 

[Profpointy]

Radio Kootwijk in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Completed in 1919 and made entirely out of concrete to reduce the fire risk.

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Almost a cross between Art-Deco and Brutalism. I have a book on Art-Deco which refers to the sub-style they term Totalitarian Art Deco which is somewhat along those lines, though less brutal

A classic example of this being Helsinki Railway station, despite 1930s Finland not being a totalitarian country, unlike its neighbour to the East. I stayed in the hotel across the road, though it it is not my picture. Now I look it up it's less "brutal" than I remember but a spectacular building all the same

 

[Profpointy]

Stunning Art-Deco interior of the Three Pigeons pub in Halifax

Some more professional pictures than mine here

https://pubgallery.co.uk/pubs/three-pigeons-halifax/

 

[Andy in Germany]

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Miniature version for silly 1920's tabletop game::

With slightly less art deco attachments...

 

[Andy in Germany]

Almost a cross between Art-Deco and Brutalism. I have a book on Art-Deco which refers to the sub-style they term Totalitarian Art Deco which is somewhat along those lines, though less brutal

A classic example of this being Helsinki Railway station, despite 1930s Finland not being a totalitarian country, unlike its neighbour to the East. I stayed in the hotel across the road, though it it is not my picture. Now I look it up it's less "brutal" than I remember but a spectacular building all the same



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I seem to recall this was one of several civic buildings built to establish a "Finnish" style of architecture, in contrast to that of their neighbour.

 

[rjsterry]

I seem to recall this was one of several civic buildings built to establish a "Finnish" style of architecture, in contrast to that of their neighbour.

I think it's referred to as National Romanticism. Norway was doing something similar at the same time, and it ties in with the stuff Gaudi and his contemporaries were doing in Catalonia.

 

[rjsterry]

I think it's referred to as National Romanticism. Norway was doing something similar at the same time, and it ties in with the stuff Gaudi and his contemporaries were doing in Catalonia.

Scrub that, National Romanticism was slightly earlier - more like the Nordic version of Art Nouveau - but similar idea of trying to create a new national style.