>>Saw a nature prog last night about Florida and esp the 'Glades - 1,000s of sq km, Florida being bigger than England and Wales put together. Truly you live in Paradise.
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>Thanks. Maybe you have been following my daily photos. Besides some street photography, and not being the best season for the Everglades and bird watching now, I have been 'documenting' Miami Beach's architecture (mostly Art Deco). I have a lot of it done and am slowly posting. I have a lot more to come. It is certainly different from other places.

Yes, I've been monitoring them. Very nice. I always find those buildings beautiful, esp in the mixed pastel colours. I remember them also from "The Golden Girls" and that strange American version of "Fawlty Towers", not to mention CSI!

We do have one large Art Deco appartment building on the Brighton seafront, Embassy Court. For years it was left almost derelict and recently they did it up. Trouble is they didn't replace the curved windows on the corners:

http://www.visitbrighton.com/news/343.asp

There was a Brighton council leader in the 30s who was going to pull down all the "old fashioned" beautiful Regency architecture on Brighton seafront and replace it with Art dec. Luckily Adolf Hitler intervened on our behalf :-)

Note this other view of it, with Regency buildings to the side. Watch the slide-show too:

http://www-us.flickr.com/photos/joeclark/41538344/in/set-911212/

Oh, and another view, with intersting slide show of photos of Brighton:

http://www.urban75.org/photos/brighton/br65.html

Here's how it was before resto.:
http://www.74simon.co.uk/embassycourt.html