One of the most mind-boggling buildings on the Sunset Strip, this low, round, extremely green office was built for a plastic surgeon and allegedly designed by Brasilia's own Oscar Niemeyer.
Developed primarily between 1960 and 1967, "Space Park," as it was known, is an excellent example of the suburban corporate campus that grew popular after World War II.
Inspired by Pasadena's Craftsman residences, its Beaux Arts City Hall, and Streamline Moderne and Late Moderne commercial buildings, the museum was designed to blend into and reference its urban surroundings.
Architectural firm Kistner, Wright and Wright designed Norwalk City Hall as a one-story square steel box clad in tinted glass and panels covered with vibrant blue and green mosaic tile.
Originally IBM Aerospace Headquarters, the landmark Mid-Century Modern design was built for IBM to cater to the region's burgeoning aerospace industry.
Of the hundreds of high schools built in the postwar population boom, the only one built within a block of the ocean—leading to its own design challenges.