When J. Paul Getty opened his Getty Villa in 1974—making his collection of Classical artworks available to the public—he felt certain the building should evoke a Classical design. The reviews were mixed.
With its mirrored-glass facade seemingly blending into the sky, this remarkable corporate headquarters is in fact anchored by sculptured granite buttresses that root it firmly to the earth.
St. Basil Catholic Church rises from the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Kingsley Drive like an ancient fortress, girded with towers and bristling with jagged, three-dimensional windows of stained glass and iron.