Los Angeles is a design and architecture nerd’s sun-drenched paradise. Here, lookie-loos can find examples of everything from historic Spanish Mission Revival apartment houses to midcentury-modern ...

With its impressive Googie architecture, the diner is a landmark near the Santa Monica pier.

Metal swoops and fiberglass fins and sails. Perpendicular planes of glass and concrete jutting at 90-degree angles, bordered by tropical plants. A gleaming, skewed canopy painted in primary colors ...

new video loaded: Googie, a Futuristic Style of Architecture, Is Endangered Googie architecture is a midcentury design style characterized by dramatic rooflines, pops of color, large glass windows and ...

Built environment fans are remembering a leading proponent of distinctive California coffee shop design. Fans of 1950s style knew Eldon Davis for pioneering Googie architecture. You know it when you ...

Built with a Jetsons flair in the 1960s, the building has recently housed a used car lot.

LOS ANGELES — When we last reported on Norms Coffee Shop in January, the new owner of the Southern California chain had just been issued a demolition permit for the building, leading to a massive ...

LOS ANGELES, May 20 (Reuters) - A Los Angeles diner celebrated as a classic example of mid-20th century Space Age-style Googie architecture was granted historic monument status by city officials on ...

Southern California, with its pagoda cinemas and eateries shaped like bulldogs, has long been noted for the world’s largest crop of chicken-wire-and-stucco monstrosities. This month HOUSE & HOME notes ...