Architectural Styles

    Inter-War Commercial Palazzo

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    1918-1939

    • Symmetrical facades
    • classical elements columns, pilasters, and cornices
    • Tall, slender proportions with vertical lines
    • high-quality materials such as brick, stone, terracotta, and decorative detailing
    • large ground floor retail
    • USA
    • Europe
    • Australia

    Common Building Types

    Landmark buildings

    Historic Accommodation Types

    Accommodation Examples

    • Office buildings
    • retail
    • mixed-use
    • civic
    • banks
    • Woolworth Building NYC, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower NYC
    • Chicago Board of Trade Building
    • Fisher Building Detroit
    • New York Life Building NYC
    • Gulf Building Pittsbutgh
    • Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building
    • 40 Wall Street (Bank of Manhattan Building) NYC
    • San Francisco Chronicle Building,
    • American Radiator Building NYC
    • Purpose-built grand city hotels – Large metropolitan hotels in capital cities and business districts
    • Commercial office buildings to hotels – Insurance headquarters, Corporate, offices, Banks
    • Department stores to hotels
    • Residential / long-stay hotels
    • Railway- and transport-linked hotels
    • Government-adjacent & diplomatic hotels
    • Later evolution to serviced apartments & mixed use
    • Waldorf Astoria (1931) – Monumental inter-war palazzo massing
    • Hotel Nacional de Cuba (1930)
    • Hotel Excelsior (inter-war remodelling phase)
    • The Pierre residential hotel
    • Claridge’s (inter-war rebuilding)
    • Hotel Pennsylvania (demolished) -opp Penn Station
    • Fairmont Royal York
    • Hotel Metropole (inter-war remodelling)
    • Hotel Adlon (inter-war reconstruction)
    • Hotel Roosevelt (closed) – transitioning toward mixed and extended-stay use

    Adaptive Reuse

    • Ace Hotel – Former insurance headquarters
    • Grace Hotel Sydney – Former department store
    • Hotel Telegraaf – former commercial building
    • Westin Palace Hotel
    • Bulgari Hotel – former commercial building
    • NoMad Hotel (New York City, USA)- adapted to mixed hotel use

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