United Kingdom Pavilion by Night
Posted in Architecture, Art Deco, Empire Exhibition, Scotland, 1938 at 12:00 on 10 September 2013
Another black and white photographic postcard of the Empire Exhibition, Scotland, 1938. The United Kingdom Pavilion.
Tags: Architecture, Art Deco, Empire Exhibition Scotland 1938, United Kingdom Pavilion
Denis Cullinan
10 September 2013 at 22:34
Love that architecture.
One of the buildings in Rockefeller Center here in New York is called “the British Empire building.” Time flies like all get-out.
The Center was completed in 1932, a cynosure of Art Deco design. Even Gertrude Stein called it beautiful.
jackdeighton
15 September 2013 at 00:13
High Art Deco buildings are just wonderful, Denis.
It’s a pity that one of the conditions of holding Exhibitions (with a capital E – most of them required Acts of Parliament to enable them) was that the buildings were only to be temporary. There’s just one of The Empire Exhibition buildings left in Bellahouston Park now, a minor one at that, the Palace of Arts.