Tag: architecture

Hot Cha Cafe

The Hot Cha Cafe at So Cal Landmarks:

In about 1932, a small, hexagonal shingle-style Victorian building in Long Beach got a programmatic makeover, adding a large, angular percolator made of metal and glass on the roof, to become the Hot Cha Café. The name changed to the Koffee Pot Café, but it remained a coffee shop into the 1960s…

If this was still a cafe I’d totally go there just for the style. I’m glad it was restored instead of demolished!

A small, red, one-level octagonal building sandwiched between what looks like a house and a garage on a sunny day. A tree sticks in from out of fram, and cars are parked in the street out front. It looks like there's only space for a single room, and the windows and glass door feature a logo and the name of a salon that you might be able to make out on a bigger display than the one I'm using. Most unusual: A stylized coffee percolator sits a top the pyramidal roof.

#Architecture #ProgrammaticArchitecture #coffee #cafe #LongBeach

Fleetwood Center

I always appreciate finding examples of novelty architecture that are still standing. And Googie.

Could there be any better expression of Southern California’s car-centric culture than the programmatic architecture of the Fleetwood Center on Ventura Boulevard in Tarzana?

SoCal Landmarks: Fleetwood Center

Photo of a wide, two-story building with a facade made to look like the front of a classic car. Fins on the side, and the upper story windows are shaped like a grill and headlights. Photo credit to Lonny Ross, via SoCal Landmarks.

#cars #architecture #socal

Postmark

Sort of post-Googie, pre-Brutalist?

Looking up at the walls of a hotel near LAX. The #patterened #facade in the first photo is repeated on several other walls around the hotel. Above it are many layers of #interleaved balconies for the hotel rooms.

Does anyone know the term for this #architecture style? It’s sort of post-Googie, pre-Brutalist?

#LosAngeles #photo

Curved patterned facade

Interleaved curves.

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Not as good a photo, but a wider view for context, before they repainted a couple of years ago. The wall and balconies are on the tower to the left of the frame.

Not as good a photo, but a wider view for context, before they repainted a ...

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Fascinating: At the Guédelon medieval construction site in central France, builders are reconstructing a 13th …

Fascinating: At the Guédelon medieval construction site in central France, builders are reconstructing a 13th century castle using only the technologies and materials that were available at the time. Hand-quarried stone cut with hand-forged tools, treadwheel cranes, etc.

A medieval castle in France could be Notre Dame’s salvation

#history #architecture #france

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