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 kind of ...

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 ...

Metal swoops and fiberglass fins and sails. Perpendicular planes of glass and concrete jutting at 90-degree angles, bordered by tropical plants. A gleaming, skewed canopy painted in primary colors ...

The Norms restaurant at La Cienega is closer to being designated a landmark after a Thursday vote. Los Angeles's Cultural Heritage Commission voted unanimously to make this location a "historic ...

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 ...

Corky’s, a Googie-style diner in Sherman Oaks—and a popular filming location and long-time local fixture—and its Cork Lounge will close this month, ending a decades-long run. In a Sunday night post on ...

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 ...