Cincinnati: Carew Tower-Netherland Plaza Hotel

Some cool french art images:

Cincinnati: Carew Tower-Netherland Plaza Hotel

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Cincinnati's tallest building, standing at 49 stories tall, is one of the finest examples of skyscraper modernism in America. The complex contains the Hilton Netherland Plaza (formerly the Omni Netherland Plaza) and the Palm Court, the fromer lobby of the hotel and now the restaurant, which is self-described as the "fionest example of French Art Deco architecture in the world."

The Carew Tower is a particularly coherent series of public areas that ascend upward from the street entrances, and served as the basis for the design of the Empire State Building. As designed, it makes the most complete statement of the 1920s Jazz Age, an embodiment of speed, high style, and a mass-market machine age.

Construction began in September of 1929, just one month before the stock market crash on October 24 that triggered the Great Depression. Because of this, construction was continued on a modified plan. The grand details (architectural motifs, friezes, and decorative metal) that are common on art deco buildings were stopped at the third floor and plain bricks were used on the floors above. Art deco themes can be found throughout the building, particularly in the metalwork and grillwork of the elevators and lights. Rookwood Pottery floral tiles add the "Cincy" touch to the building

The block-square complex cost M, an enormous sum for the time, and was finished in 13 months by crews working seven days a week, 24 hours a day. The Netherland Hotel is a superb example of European-Deco design adapted to commerce; most of the decorative work had been created in France several years prior to construction of the complex and exhibited at the 1925 Exhibition of Decorative Art in Paris.

Two dollars gets you a ticket to the 574 foot (49th floor) observation deck of the tallest building in Cincinnati.

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The Orsay Museum, Paris

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A museum opened in 1986 in Paris that used to be the Orsay Station (Gare d'Orsay). It houses French art from 1848 to 1915.

The station building was built from 1898 to 1900

these are some of my better on the coach shots of the museum.

The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station, the Gare d'Orsay. It holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography, and is probably best known for its extensive collection of impressionist masterpieces by popular painters such as Monet and Renoir. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986.

Musee d'Orsay and the Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor

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A footbridge over the River Seine near the Orsay Museum

Museum in the former Gare d'Orsay railway station on the River Seine.

The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station, the Gare d'Orsay. It holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography, and is probably best known for its extensive collection of impressionist masterpieces by popular painters such as Monet and Renoir. Many of these works were held at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume prior to the museum's opening in 1986.

On the right is the Palais de la Légion d'honneur / Musée des Anciens combattants. It might be the former Hotel de Salm.