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Empty bank building, Charleston SC

LB — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:33:02 +0000

For brutalist concrete, I find this little bank quite friendly. And not half bad for a drive-in. Unfortunately it seems to be abandoned. Photo above is by agilitynut, and and an alternate view is here.

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Brooches for houses

LB — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:56:18 +0000

This house decoration looks like an upmarket version of a dingbat. Either way it’s a nice retro fashion accessory that harks back to the postwar period. The house was built in La Jolla, California by architect Jonathan Segal in 2004 for his own family.

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Palmer & Krisel, midcentury modern architecture

LB — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:24:31 +0000

These midcentury modern houses are by the famed Los Angeles architectural firm Palmer & Krisel, which has built a phenomenal number of iconic houses in this style in California and Nevada.

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Patterned concrete screens

LB — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:15:39 +0000

I’m developing a taste for these. There are lots of dinky suburban tract versions of these perforated walls, but when the scale and placement are well thought out, they can be the building’s most arresting feature.

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Patterned concrete blocks, on Flickr

LB — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:58:07 +0000

Concrete block and perforated screen fetishists should visit this Flickr pool. The wall above and below is at the abandoned Besser Vibrapac office, a building that served as a display of the company’s own concrete blocks.

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Horizon Hotel, Palm Springs

LB — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:34:31 +0000

William Cody, Architect, 1952. From the standpoint of the rainy temperate rainforest, desert landscaping is so seductive, so distant, so taunting. Red cactus soil, and an agave growing through the roof, and a boulder.

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The Parker Hotel in Palm Springs

LB — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:11:35 +0000

The Parker Hotel as photographed by Chimay Bleue, who has produced one of my favourite collections of photos of modernist architecture on Flickr. I’ll do a series of posts using his photos if he will let me.

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