Albion Hotel
- Architect
- Igor B. Polevitzky
- Year
- 1939
- Style
- Streamline Moderne
- City
- Miami, FL
- Collection
- ocean drive deco
The Albion Hotel opened in South Beach in 1939, designed by Igor B. Polevitzky in the Streamline Moderne strain of Art Deco that gave Miami Beach's late-1930s hotels their sleek, ship-like profiles. Polevitzky was known for experimental, nautical-inspired designs, and the Albion is a contributing building within the Miami Beach Architectural District on the National Register of Historic Places.
the building
Streamline massing. The hotel's streamlined massing — rounded corners and horizontal banding recalling an ocean liner — is visible straight from the sidewalk, the nautical vocabulary Polevitzky was known for experimenting with.
the style
The Albion is built in Streamline Moderne, an Art Deco offshoot that borrowed curved corners and horizontal banding from ocean liner design — fitting for a resort hotel blocks from the water, and characteristic of Polevitzky's experimental, nautical-inspired approach.
More on Streamline Modernethe architect
Igor B. Polevitzky was an innovative Miami modernist known for experimental, nautical-inspired designs; the Albion Hotel is one of his Streamline Moderne works from the late 1930s.
significance
The Albion Hotel is a contributing property within the Miami Beach Architectural District on the National Register of Historic Places.
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- Sagamore Hotel South Beach
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