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 ...

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 ...

Call it what you like: Populuxe, Doo-Wop, Coffee Shop Modern, Jet Age, Space Age. The mid-century Southern California architectural style, with its ski-jump roofs, starbursts and kidney-shaped signs, ...

Mel’s Drive-in Restaurant in Santa Monica is an example of Googie architecture: a retro futuristic style featuring stretched roofs, large glass windows, and neon signs. The Silver Lake restaurant ...

Googie architecture, known for its jutting angles and wall-to-wall windows, could be seen in the iconic former Stardust and is still recognizable in the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Sign and even a ...

A woman walks outside Googies Coffee Shop and Schwab’s Pharmacy in Los Angeles. Googie architecture touched down in Los Angeles in 1949 thanks to John Lautner’s futuristic design of the long-gone ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A west Los Angeles diner that is celebrated as a classic example of mid-20th century Space Age-style Googie architecture has been mentioned on a record by singer Tom Waits 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 ...

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 ...

“Googie” is a word one doesn’t hear a great deal and sounds a little like a noise a toddler would make — but in the architecture world, it’s a futuristic blast from the past. Exterior Screen grab from ...

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 ...