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Warner Bros. Office Building (1)

Gibbs and Gibbs
What appears to be a deconstructed residential building turned commercial high-rise features a wood post-and-beam structural system like many classic Mid-Century Modern homes but draws on the traditions of the Craftsman style.
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Warner Bros. Office Building (2)

Luckman Partnership
Ahead of its time in terms of structural system and energy efficiency, this architectural gem's mirrored glass walls reflect up to 80% of the intense summer heat gain.
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Warner Bros. Records Building

A. Quincy Jones
This transcendent melding of domestic and commercial idioms proves that Late Modern corporate offices can be warm, elegant, and even neighborly.
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Warner Center

Various
A 1.5 square-mil planned community first envisioned as a mass-transit oriented neighborhood with residences, shopping, park, hospital, Metro rail, and a small cluster of skyscrapers some call "the downtown of the valley."
Exterior of Watts Happening Cultural Center. Photo by Rita Cofield.

Watts Happening Cultural Center

Kennard and Silvers
Since 1969, Black art, culture, and activism have flourished in this rare Late-Modern style building in the Watts neighborhood of South L.A.
Photo by Jessica Hodgdon/L.A. Conservancy

Wells Fargo

Frank Gehry
A deconstructed version of a building looking at first more like a drawing of a building than the thing itself, Gehry's design fragments the building into separate parts that play with light, shadow, and reflection.
Zenith Tower
Photo by Devri Richmond

Zenith Tower

Maxwell Starkman
A distinctive Late Modern building that deserves a second look, Zenith Tower's architect, Maxwell Starkman, was one of the first combination architect-developers which put methods of production on equal footing with pure design.

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