Combining the volume of an apartment building with the form and feeling of a single-family home, Hermosa Beach's Lawrence House is a local icon of Late Modern /Deconstructivist design.
One of the earliest designs by renowned Los Angeles architects Thom Mayne and Michael Rotondi of Morphosis, completed in 1978 and intended to feel friendly for residents, with a do-it-yourself quality.
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For her steakhouse named after 1930s boxing promoter Kate Mantilini, restaurateur Marilyn Lewis directed her architects to create "a roadside steakhouse for the future – with a clock."