Good news, Googie fans! Twain’s won’t be bulldozed after all, though it is still becoming a Sharky’s Mexican Grill. Based in part on the popularity of the well-known local landmark and its swooping ...

Googie, the name given to this ultramodern roadside style, comes from the name of a 1949 restaurant on the Sunset Strip designed by master architect John Lautner, who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Los Angeles is a design and architecture nerd’s sun-drenched paradise. Here, lookie-loos can find examples of everything from ...

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 ...

This week: take a film journey following the career of famed Finnish-American modern architect Eero Saarinen; hear about innovative hands-on design today; gasp in the wonder of Tyrus Wong’s kites; ...

Two “Googie”-style buildings in L.A. are at risk of demolition. Built in 1960, the nearly 34,000-square foot building (above) was designed by architect Ronald Cleveland. Its current operator Superior ...

Have you ever noticed a diner, or perhaps a motel, gas station, or drive-in, that looks like it would fit in the Jetsons’ neighborhood? A confluence of car culture and the Atomic and Space Ages, ...

It was the 1950s. America was a superpower, and the Los Angeles area was the center of it. The space race was on. A car culture was emerging. So were millions of postwar babies. Businesses needed ways ...