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Googie's Coffee Shop (styled googies) was a small restaurant located at 8100 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles next door to the famous Schwab's Pharmacy at the beginning of the Sunset Strip. It was designed in 1949 by architect John Lautner and lent its name to Googie architecture , a genre of modernist design in the 1950s and 60s.
Brooks + Scarpa (originally Pugh + Scarpa) is an American architectural firm based in Los Angeles, California, and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa are the recipients of the 2022 American Institute of Architect Gold Medal, the institute's highest honor.
Clad in a blue-green glazed architectural terra-cotta tile and situated diagonal to the street corner, the complex is considered one of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States. The Wiltern building is owned privately, and the Wiltern Theatre is operated by Live Nation's Los Angeles division.
Los Angeles, California: 2018: American Architecture Award [24] 2300 Beverly: Los Angeles, California: 2018: NA 2510 Temple: Los Angeles, California: 2017: American Architecture Award [25] Architect's Newspaper Best of Design Award [26] AIA LA Design Award [27] AIA LA Residential Award [28] Douglas Elliman, California Headquarters: Beverly ...
Influenced by the coming of the Space Age, the Googie-themed architecture popularity was most notable from the mid-1940s to early 1970s, among motels, coffee houses and gas stations. The term "Googie" comes from a now defunct coffee shop and cafe built in West Hollywood [ 1 ] designed by John Lautner .
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (demolished 2020) Pepsi plant, Santa Ana, California University of California, Irvine campus (infrastructure, campus layout, and early buildings) [ 9 ] [ 10 ]
Armet Davis Newlove Architects, formerly Armét & Davis, is a Californian architectural firm known for working in the Googie architecture style that marks many distinctive coffee shops and eateries in Southern California. The firm designed Pann's, the first Norms Restaurants location, the Holiday Bowl and many other iconic locations.
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture was founded in 1994 by Peter Noever, Director of the MAK/Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien, Vienna.On August 10, 1994, the Friends of the Schindler House formally entered into an agreement with the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna (Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien) to create the non-profit MAK Center for Art and Architecture.