History

IMPORTANT BUILDINGS in L.A.
(with the related illustrations at the Photo Gallery Section)

IB 1 / across The Greyhound Station
This building is painted in the most clever way, which overgrows the banality of the white square volume and adopts it in turn as a bright contrast into the grim surroundings. While having a quite serious contour of an administrative headquarters the building is flanked by an appendix that resembles some factory building. This building is important for the cheerful attitude towards the fact that its days are numbered-out!

IB 2 / The bank of America building on the Colorado blvd.
This building undergoes the project-standard of the Bank of America offices to be seen in many L.A. neighborhoods. It is from the across the Colorado blvd that we can see how appealing and inviting its big opening windows are. In the somewhat steep and "at the edge of the city" Colorado boulevard it is carefully placed to confirm the stability of its purpose and its owner. It gives a welcoming break to the passenger that browses a picturesque and 'spiky' profile of the other side of the boulevard.

IB 3 / somewhere in Down Town
The building is placed at the corner as if to enable a smooth shift of the viewer's gaze, from the street level to the endless glass columns in its back. Its volume is being fabulously enlightened by the facade's pattern. This building firmly stands for the concept and the logics of a middle-high rise. It bravely undergoes the threat of the surrounding high-rises and their trivial elegance.

IB 4 / Riverside Drive next to Golden State Fwy
This building is so syncretic. It comprises outlooks of a lonely post office in Nevada and a paint retail store somewhere in L.A. One could easily imagine a post officer sitting in the porch and swinging in a chair on a hot afternoon. It is after some carefully designed and applied decorations that we can realize where it really is. The light of the dirty white and the chill of the calm blue invite a passer by to a dedicated photo session.

IB 5 / 99 c store at Highland Park
This building reveals a shortcut between the latifundian hacienda in Argentina and a 99c store in more downgraded neighborhoods of L.A. It's melodramatic outline and perfectly accompanied palm trees make the customer happy to enter this Ali Baba's cave of our era, where the abundance of goods make them cheap and affordable to everybody. Due to its superb position on a parking lot and to so inspiring surroundings: it flashes in it's glittering modesty day and night long...

IB 6 / on the road to Glendale
This building tells us the story of the importance decoration. Ones that sun gets into play with counter-steeping margins of it's frieze, we can enjoy the otherwise hidden texture of the charming crest. The back building and an empty parking lot outline it so that all that makes it a perfect target for every tourist.

IB 7/ Capitol Records Building in Hollywood

The thirteen story building in Hollywood is one of the more unique pieces of architecture found in the Hollywood area. It is also home to the world famous Capitol Records. Designed by Welton Becket, the tower is a circular building that was completed in 1956. The building can be seen from most parts of downtown Los Angeles and has a red flashing light on top of the tower. The light itself blinks out the word ‘Hollywood’ in Morse code. In addition to its stunning visual nature, the Capitol Records building is  the home to the inner workings of the record label.