Bentley has updated its emblem for just the fifth time since its founding in 1919, and without breaking hard from 106 years ...

In other words, Lynch was a superb director of architecture. He knew precisely how to use design and spaces to make us feel a certain way, and keep on feeling it long after Twin Peaks, or ...

The term Googie architecture — pronounced GOO-gee with hard G’s — is probably foreign to you, but you are almost certainly familiar with buildings that exemplify the style. This distinctive ...

Googie architecture is a midcentury design style characterized by dramatic rooflines, pops of color, large glass windows and flashy signs. Anna Kodé, a reporter covering design and culture for ...

That cowboy hat is an example of the architectural style known as Googie (pronounced ghoo-ghee, with two hard G’s), which was popular from the 1940s to the 1970s. A product of car culture ...

In “Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling Alleys,” Chris Nichols and Adriene Biondo dig into a sorely unheralded golden age when Googie design flourished and bowling alleys served ...

The oldest-surviving Norms – built in 1957 located at 470 N. La Cienega Blvd. – is known for its famous Googie architecture. It was designated a Los Angeles Historical-Cultural monument in 2015.

What to Know Googie World Expo Valley Relics Museum in Van Nuys Saturday, Nov. 16 2-7 p.m. $17.85 A Nov. 23 bowling alley tour, helmed by Chris Nichols, is also ahead; find ticket and tour ...

Googie architecture is considered to be an L.A.-born and bred architectural style that first rose to prominence during the economic boom years after World War II, from roughly the mid-1940’s to ...

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 ...

This was the architecture of Route 66, the architecture of the road trip, of the roadside motel, of the starburst and of the spaceship. In the case of the Hart Motor Co. building, the showroom’s ...

“This style of architecture wasn’t invented in LA, but it was certainly perfected here. In the teens and 1920s, Los Angeles became a modern, car-oriented city,” architect and historian Alan ...