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Source Collection
Alan Karchmer collection, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
19_24.B2
Description
Kimbrough Tower Apartments, Kimbrough and Union, Memphis, Tennessee. Built in 1938. Photographer: Alan Karchmer. © Alan Karchmer.
This building marks a major achievement in slipform reinforced concrete technology. As each story was poured in place, the handsomely modeled steel formwork was removed and reused in the upper floors. Cantilevered floor slabs at the corners allow large corner windows.
Following the 1925 Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, the highly ornamental Art Deco or Modernistic Style began to develop in America. Mostly rectangular ornament, used sometimes with geometric curves and the use of polychrome mark this streamlined style. Often dramatically if not formally three-dimensional in massing, these structures carefully balance complementary horizontal and vertical elements.
Date Created
2021
Date
undated
Recommended Citation
"Kimbrough Tower Apartments, Memphis" (2021). Images. 91.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-karchmera2/91
Keywords
Architecture--Tennessee--Memphis.
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