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Shabby Splendour - A87816946

Interesting architecture, what do they call this style?

Over here we have a style called German (or Teutonian) railway station baroque

Over here, that's called 'beaux-arts'. But I like Teutonic railway-station baroque better. ,rofl>

There's something in Germany called 'Gelsenkirchner baroque'. It describes a kind of pseudo-Victorian bad taste in interior decoration. Gelsenkirchen used to look like Pittsburgh before they cleaned it up.

Ooooh, isn't that pure Chicago School? looks like a large Greek column with base, shaft and capital. and windows consisting of 3 parts, the middle would be fixed, the outer parts sliding windows. that's what the very first 'skyscrapers' looked like.

Hm, you know, now I'm trying to remember what the windows did. I remember a particularly traumatic meeting in one of the conference halls, where I had to introduce the speaker, and I'd just been handed a four-page resume for a government official...I can't remember what the windows did, I was too terrified.

In the other parts of the hotel complex, which were used for dormitories, they had straight sash windows, I remember that.

Wiki claims it's 'beaux-arts'. I don't really know. You're so much more expert on this, Tav, maybe this link will help, and you can explain it to us.

http://www.brooklineconnection.com/history/Facts/Schenley.html

It's got more pictures and details. It IS a pretty interesting building. Oakland is a crazy mishmash of all kinds of insane architectural styles. I think an architect could have a lot of fun there - or get the shuddering horrors.

Frank LLoyd Wright HATED the place. He once offered several million dollars to anyone who wo8uld tear down the Cathedral of Learning.

Sorry, it's not 3 windows in this case, only two next to each other. They would both be sliding, I'm sure. I'd still call it Chicago School. Maybe with some added bits of decoration.

That could be.

What makes the Chicago School Chicago, if I may ask? This is interesting.

you find some information at the bottom of this Entry: A87782232

That is exactly what those buildings are like! (There were about six in the whole complex.) Well spotted, that architect!

I never thought about the resemblance to a Greek column.

[Amy P]