Automobile Row is not much fun to look at now, but it does capture in living color the fender-bender of late-model shopping-strip architecture clashing with old-style urbanism.
Rossi's design for the sanctuary of the cemetery, a heavy cube standing on square pillars with raw square windows carved out in symmetrical layers, stripped architecture down to its essence.
Upon learning that the author makes his home in Los Angeles, one imagines a ruthless power broker, peering down at the city from one of those modernist dwellings high above the Sunset Strip, the architecture all hard surfaces and empty rooms.
Against this ghostly backdrop, Mr. Ringholt noted that modern museums strip back architecture, floor coverings, windows and adornments for the sake of foregrounding art, and that in the same way contemporary artists have since the 1980s taken to wearing black.
In fact, the clichés people associate with the city are what Granade loves about it, including strip mall architecture, fast food, palm trees, swimming pools, and helicopters.
Beginning at 47th Street, the strip-mall architecture appears, with its trademark brushed metal, tinted (or reflective) glass, rough stucco and big angular forms.
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Just as modernist architecture stripped away superfluous building ornamentation, so the new Swiss typography snipped off the frivolous serifs – relics from an older era of print technology, namely stone carving.
Short tram rides will take you to the gorgeous inner suburban centers, with long strips of Victorian architecture, rich in restaurants and boutiques, such as Bridge Road in Richmond (No. 48 tram from Flinders Street), Acland Street in St. Kilda (No. 96 from Bourke Street), and Brunswick Street in Fitzroy (No. 112 from Collins Street).
