This 28-story building is an evolution of the San Remo and Beresford apartment. Designed by one of the most influential architects of the Art Deco, Emery Roth, its façade shows the evolution towards a more modern, without losing the Art Deco ornament.
The décor is different geometric figures that cover the front of the base using two-color between yellow bricks are the main and other brown facing serving the architect to perform various geometric shapes, this combination gives rhythm to the facade. One of the most important decorative elements of El Dorado, their shots are futuristic.
View from Central Park
Roth design based on a main body and the twin towers, unfortunately was not exported to other places, something that gives you even more value to the work of this great Art Deco architects. For this building was assisted by the architect Margon & Holder. In total the building has 186 apartments.
Shell Mex House It was built between 1930 and 1932. It was designed by Jewish architect Joseph Ernst. Its Art Deco style is similar to other buildings as Buffalo City Hall. This distribution is characterized by genuine skyscraper lying down, since despite having only 12 plants total surface of 50,000 m2. What made him one of the largest buildings in England in 1932. The building is crowned by a large clock, the largest in the United Kingdom, this is flanked by two figures. The building is constantly present in the ziggurat. From the main body of the building to watch the auction. Its facade is made of white granite and its style is more classical than usual in the Art Deco architecture. Maybe because it was built on the site of the Cecil Hotel built in 1886, and is one of the facades retained. As a curiosity the Shell Mex building is now the London building more value per square meter, and which was sold in 2007 for about 500 million pounds, and it is no wonder that given its iconic position on the River Thames, which have become a symbol of modern London.
As Tiffany jewelry or Egyptian-inspired furniture, deco-style watches have become the real icons of the art of the twenties and thirties. Great artists like Lalique or Omega or the same brands found in watches Tiffany a place to express their creativity and in turn meet the need for luxury buyers who had these parts. These time machines are appreciated today and even have their own museum in Brussels .
Wooden Clock. C. 1928. Paul T Frankl.
Metal Clock chrome. C. 1930. Hermes.
Marble Clock, Gold and Crystal. C. 1928. Vacheron & Constantin.
fireplace glass clock. C. 1930. Hettie & Vincent
Wooden Clock. C. 1922. Kuipers Evert
clock crystal and marble inlaid with coral. C. 1925. Cartier.
The Kavanagh is one of the emblems of the modern movement Argentino. When built in 1933 is not a pure Art Deco building in the lines we also observed a strong influence of European expressionism ..
expressionist facade
In the early 1930's Corina Kavanagh was a young rancher from Irish, eccentric and interested in anything that was avant-garde, to the point that by 1933 had the idea to sell two of its packages to construct a building for housing rents. Some say that the idea was actually his attorneys, Paul Kavanagh and Garret Diego Cardenas. However, the fact is that Corina sold his land and bought land on the cliff overlooking the Plaza San Martin, a triangle formed by the junction of Florida and San Martin streets.
The area where the future would rise building was one of the most quoted of the city and had even been proposed by the Commission Aesthetic Edilicia as the "major gateway to the city", as in the lower stations were the "Retreat" of the Central Argentine Railway, Central Pacific and Córdoba.
Corina Kavanagh's intention was that the building could restore much of the money invested. His idea was to allocate departments to hire young wealthy families of Buenos Aires, the only ones who have survived the economic crisis. So worried that I had all the best of times for comfort and progress. For the project was called the study made by the Uruguayan architect Gregorio Sánchez, Ernesto engineer Lagos and Luis Maria de Tower.
Kavanagh Vista General
The June 24, 1933 was auctioned the demolition of buildings that existed in the land where the future building would rise and late August it was completely free of debris. Finally, the structure began in January 1934. At first, Kavanagh Building would have a height similar to that of its neighbor Plaza Hotel, but finally decided to build a skyscraper, which was the tallest building in Buenos Aires.
The concreting of the "Edificio Kavanagh was concluded on October 28, 1934. At that time, became the reinforced concrete structure highest in the world, surpassing Prédio Martinelli of Sao Paulo.
The building was finally officially opened on January 15, 1936. With a 110 meters high to the roof and 120.35 to the top of the mast, became the tallest building in Argentina and Latin America. 30 stories were also a record for the history of nation building because it was the first time that a building that amount reached high levels.
Main Facade
The Kavanagh should limit their plants to the complex terrain triangular perimeter. It was built on five volumes juxtaposed: one center, which is abut other two and these other two children. The central part with both sides given the symmetry of the building.
Kavanagh
The numbers were startling for their time. During construction 1500 had prepared plans and worksheets for built surface of 25,800 m2 . In concrete structures were used 1,600 km. iron bars while the total water pipes, vapor, drains and electrical conductors reached 90 km . The electrical system was equivalent to would be required to supply a city of 80,000 inhabitants, while the computer air conditioner refrigerant (unique in the world) could generate ice for an urban cluster of 75,000 people.
The scheme of the building consists of basement, ground floor, 30 floors with a total of 102 apartments spread over six wings (A, B, C, E, F and G) and gazebo on the terrace, which would be the floor 31 °. The ground floor was devoted to large reception rooms with covered entrance for cars, waiting rooms, information, telephones, toilets, halls and galleries. The Kavanagh is included in the list of world heritage of the modern movement developed by UNESCO
The Kavanagh in the forties
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Architect
Gregorio Sánchez, Ernesto Lagos and Luis Maria de la Torre
René Lalique began his career as a graphic artist and then as discñador Art Deco jewelry. He discovered the glass when looking new and less expensive materials for their jewelry. Experimented with glass enamels and iron as the lost wax process. His first object-glass it produced between 1893 and 1897 with this technique: a teardrop-shaped bottle with cap. After his initial success, made a number of glass objects exhibited, along with their jewelry in their new workshop Vendónme Place.
was there in 1906 Lalique crystal vases called attention perfumer Francois Coty, who commissioned labels and bottles for their products. Lalique's first designs for Coty were produced in glass by Legras et Cie., Most of them unsigned. By 1908, Lalique had his own glass shop in Comb-la-Ville, where he ran his own designs. Larger premises, acquired in 1909, allowed him to enter series production. At the outbreak of World War I, Lalique had almost completely abandoned the production of jewelry. In 1918 acquired a larger factory at Wingen-sur-Moder.
The Lalique vases, decorated in high relief, very detailed, were made as three ways: by mouth blowing glass into molds, using a mechanical process or Pressé aspired soufflé soufflé, and molded in a press. The base material was always glass: Glass with a 50 percent lead. Made it clear or colored with metal oxides, sulfates and chlorides, which was achieved with an exquisite palette ranging from emerald green to ruby \u200b\u200bred. Using a sandwich formed by a layer of opaque white glass between two layers of colored glass, beautiful opalescent effects were obtained. Sometimes the decoration was painted or dyed with acid-treated enamel, exposing the glass to metal oxide fumes in a flask, or by polishing with a quick polish or rouge. The repertoire of motifs of Lalique was also varied: natural or stylized animals, flowers, mythological and human forms and abstract geometric compositions. Relief forms were enhanced by application of enamel colors dyes. In his catalog had a wide variety of objects: vases, dishes, toiletries, bottles, quernaperfumes, jewelry, watch cases, sculptures, mirrors, desk sets, lamps, furniture, architectural, fountains and even novel objects as Pet car. During
twenty, Lalique achieved great success and was widely acclaimed at the Paris Exhibition of 1925, which had its own pavilion. He also designed a high Sevres glass and a great source for the Cours des Métiers. Moreover, their bottles dominated the spectacular "source of perfumes' in the perfumery. Other works were included in exhibitions in various ensembliers. Important commissions followed, including pieces of glass as the Paris Transatlantic (1920), the Ile-de-France (1927) and Normandie (to 1935): decorative panels, lamps, illuminated ceilings and other accessories. Lamps manufactured for restaurants, theaters, hotels, churches and luxury sleeper French railways, also designed a series of public sources of glass in the Rondpoint of the Champs Elysees in Paris. Works
Roth design based on a main body and the twin towers, unfortunately was not exported to other places, something that gives you even more value to the work of this great Art Deco architects. For this building was assisted by the architect Margon & Holder. In total the building has 186 apartments. 
