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====Streamline Moderne==== {{main|Streamline Moderne}} In the late 1930s, a new variety of Art Deco architecture became common; it was called [[Streamline Moderne]] or simply Streamline, or, in France, the ''Style Paquebot'', or Ocean Liner style. Buildings in the style had rounded corners and long horizontal lines; they were built of reinforced concrete and were almost always white; and they sometimes had nautical features, such as railings and portholes that resembled those on a ship. The rounded corner was not entirely new; it had appeared in Berlin in 1923 in the [[Mossehaus]] by [[Erich Mendelsohn]], and later in the [[Hoover Building]], an industrial complex in the London suburb of [[Perivale]]. In the United States, it became most closely associated with transport; Streamline moderne was rare in office buildings but was often used for bus stations and airport terminals, such as the terminal at La Guardia airport in New York City that handled the first transatlantic flights, via the PanAm Clipper flying boats; and in roadside architecture, such as gas stations and diners. In the late 1930s a series of diners, modelled upon streamlined railroad cars, were produced and installed in towns in New England; at least two examples still remain and are now registered historic buildings.{{Sfn|Duncan|1988|page=197}} <gallery mode="packed" heights="200px"> File:Broadcasting House by Stephen Craven.jpg|The nautical-style rounded corner of [[Broadcasting House]] in [[London]] (1931) File:Immeuble de Pierre Patout Bd Victor Paris XV.jpg|Building in the ''Paquebot'' or ocean liner style, at 3, boulevard Victor, [[Paris]], by [[Pierre Patout]] (1935) File:Pan-Pacific Auditorium entrance.jpg|[[Pan-Pacific Auditorium]] in [[Los Angeles]], California, by [[Wurdeman & Becket]] (1936) File:LaGuardia MarineAirTerminal 1974.jpg|The [[Marine Air Terminal]] at [[La Guardia Airport]] (1937) was [[New York City]]'s terminal for the flights of [[Pan Am Clipper]] flying boats to Europe. File:Hoover Building No 1.jpg|The [[Hoover Building]] canteen in [[Perivale]] in London's suburbs, by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners (1938) File:Ancien Institut national de Radiodiffusion - vue d'ensemble.JPG|[[Le Flagey|Former Belgian National Institute of Radio Broadcasting]] in [[Ixelles]] (Brussels) by Joseph Diongre (1938) File:World Fair 1939 LOC gsc.5a03061.jpg|The [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] Pavilion at the [[1939 New York World's Fair]] File:First Church of Deliverance 2.jpg|Streamline Moderne church, [[First Church of Deliverance]] in [[Chicago]], Illinois, by [[Walter T. Bailey]] (1939). Towers added in 1948. </gallery>
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