Blackpool Casino, Pleasure Beach, Blackpool: lateral view showing the main stair tower with the external spiral stair tower at the main entrance still under construction in the background Architect/Designer Emberton, Joseph (1889-1956) Artist/Photographer Cracknell, Alfred Country UK: England City Blackpool Subject Date 1939 Image Date 1939 View Exterior Style Modern Movement Medium Photoprint Library Reference AP Box 886 Emberton Orientation Landscape Colour Info Black and white Credit Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections Subject Round buildings ; Glass ; Recreation buildings ; Construction sites ; Seaside architecture ; Towers ; Casinos ; Spiral stairs ; Concrete ; Murals ; Scaffolding
NOTES: This circular building is carried on a concrete raft on which all columns rest and reinforced concrete was used for the structure of walls, floors and roof. The circle is divided into three zones: service, forming the hub, round which are grouped offices and recreational facitlities.
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