A beloved Sherman Oaks landmark returns with a full midcentury restoration as the building reopens as L.A.’s newest Chick-fil ...

The “Googie” style of mid-century modern architecture got its name from Googie’s Coffee Shop, a Hollywood diner built in 1949. Architect John Lautner designed the building at the corner of Sunset and ...

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, ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles diner celebrated as a classic example of mid-20th century Space Age-style Googie architecture was granted historic monument status by city officials on Wednesday, ...

Now, the dirty deed is done, with LA City Council members voting to approve Historic-Cultural status for the longtime eatery. In response, newish Norms CEO Mike Colonna put out a press release ...

The Googie-style Norms diner on Pico Boulevard in Rancho Park, a neighborhood just south of Westwood, will shutter just before midnight on December 24. “A 47-year fixture within the Westwood community ...

Metal swoops and fiberglass fins and sails. Perpendicular planes of glass and concrete jutting at 90-degree angles, bordered by tropical plants. A gleaming, skewed canopy painted in primary colors ...

A shuttered wedding chapel that burned down in January is being remembered as one of the last remnants of futuristic architecture that once populated Las Vegas streets, from Boulder Highway to the ...

Architectural photographer Jack Laxer died Tuesday at the age of 91 in Culver City, Calif., leaving a vast chronicle of Googie coffee shops and travel images. Laxer was a master of three-dimensional ...

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 ...