Architectural Styles
Inter-War Commercial Palazzo
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
Beaux-Arts Commercial
Neo-Classical Commercial
Stripped Classical 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
Landmarks
Adapted Visitor Accommodation
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