Editing Modern architecture (section)

===Streamline style and Public Works Administration (1933–1939)===
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File:Pan-Pacific Auditorium entrance.jpg|[[Pan-Pacific Auditorium]] in Los Angeles (1936)
File:SFMaritimeMuseum.jpg|The [[San Francisco Maritime Museum]], originally was a public bathhouse (1936)
File:Hoover Dam (3467678621).jpg|Intake towers of [[Hoover Dam]] (1931–36)
File:U.S. Post Office (Long Beach Main).jpg|[[Long Beach Main Post Office]] (1933–34)
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The beginning of the [[Great Depression]] in 1929 brought an end to lavishly decorated Art Deco architecture and a temporary halt to the construction of new skyscrapers. It also brought in a new style, called "[[Streamline Moderne]]" or sometimes just Streamline. This style, sometimes modeled after for the form of ocean liners, featured rounded corners, strong horizontal lines, and often nautical features, such as superstructures and steel railings. It was associated with modernity and especially with transportation; the style was often used for new airport terminals, train and bus stations, and for gas stations and diners built along the growing American highway system. In the 1930s the style was used not only in buildings, but in railroad locomotives, and even refrigerators and vacuum cleaners. It both borrowed from [[industrial design]] and influenced it.<!--Raymond Loewy; locomotives, aircraft, and ships, automobiles--><!--cosmetic functionality-->{{Sfn|Ducher|2014|page=204}}

In the United States, the Great Depression led to a new style for government buildings, sometimes called [[PWA Moderne]], for the [[Public Works Administration]], which launched gigantic construction programs in the U.S. to stimulate employment. It was essentially classical architecture stripped of ornament, and was employed in state and federal buildings, from post offices to the largest office building in the world at that time, [[The Pentagon|Pentagon]] (1941–43), begun just before the United States entered the Second World War.<ref name=GEMWWII>{{cite web|title=Growth, Efficiency, and Modernism|url=http://www.gsa.gov/graphics/pbs/GEMbook.pdf|publisher=U.S. General Services Administration|access-date=31 March 2011|page=27|orig-year=2003|year=2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110331105542/http://www.gsa.gov/graphics/pbs/GEMbook.pdf|archive-date=31 March 2011}}</ref>