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unusual facts about Moderne architecture



Fountain Inn High School

An example of New Deal-era design in the Moderne style, its construction was undertaken using grants by the Public Works Administration program.

Robert N.C. Nix, Sr. Federal Building

It was designed by Harry Sternfield in the Moderne style and features several sculptures and reliefs by Donald De Lue and Edmond Amateis.

Rocketship X-M

The next morning the scientists, clad in aviation oxygen masks due to the low atmospheric pressure, begin exploring the desolate surface of Mars, eventually coming across physical evidence of a now dead advanced civilization: a partially buried-in-the-sand, stylized, Art Deco- or Tiki culture-like metal face sculpture, and in the distance Moderne architecture-like ruins.


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