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 ...

There’s Google, and then there’s Googie. While one zips users through along the information superhighway, the other takes history lovers down memory lane. Googie is a form of modern architecture ...

A woman walks outside Googies Coffee Shop and Schwab’s Pharmacy in Los Angeles. Googie architecture touched down in Los Angeles in 1949 thanks to John Lautner’s futuristic design of the long-gone ...

Seattle's Landmarks Preservation Board on March 21 will consider designating the Spud Fish & Chips building at 6860 E. Green Lake Way N. as a city landmark. Blueprint Capital wants to redevelop the ...

Googie (not Google) architecture is not exactly an art form. It's more of a frame of mind that once captured our wildest dreams. Let's rewind back to the 1950s and 60s: We were enamored by outer space ...

LOS ANGELES — Eldon Davis, an influential architect known as the father of the California coffee shop for midcentury designs inspired by the Space Age and the region’s car culture, has died. He was 94 ...