450 Sutter Building (1929), San Francisco
A 26-story Art Deco tower sheathed in Mayan-inspired terracotta, where the ornamental vocabulary of a pre-Columbian civilization was…
A 26-story Art Deco tower sheathed in Mayan-inspired terracotta, where the ornamental vocabulary of a pre-Columbian civilization was…
On the eve of the Great Depression, Timothy Pflueger covered 26 stories of a San Francisco office tower…
The Alex Theatre on Brand Boulevard in Glendale is one of Southern California’s most distinctive picture palace landmarks,…
Designed to look like an ocean liner run aground on a San Francisco beach, this 1939 WPA bathhouse…
The Avalon Casino on Catalina Island is not a gambling hall but a circular Art Deco landmark —…
Architect William Wheeler brought Churrigueresque ornament to San Diego's Broadway corridor in 1924—twin towers above a carved terracotta…
A plain 1893 Los Angeles office block hiding a glowing five-storey atrium of iron, marble and glass.
A Streamline Moderne jewel on Market Street, the Cascade brought first-run cinema and live performance to the gateway…
Robert Derrah designed a Coca-Cola factory as a ship running aground on South Central Avenue — and somehow…
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