Googie architecture (/ˈɡuːɡi/ GOO-ghee) is a type of futurist architecture influenced by car culture, jets, the Atomic Age and the Space Age. It originated...
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its name to Googie architecture, a genre of modernist design in the 1950s and 60s. Interest in the style was revived by the 1986 book Googie: Fifties Coffee...
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Googie architecture structures in the United States which includes a photographic gallery with a brief description of some of the structures. Googie was...
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Theme Building (category Googie architecture in California)
example of the Mid-century modern design movement, later to become known as "Googie". In 1993, the city designated the exterior and interior of the Theme Building...
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Norms Restaurants (category Googie architecture in California)
distinctive angular and brightly colored style that came to be known as Googie architecture. Key characteristics include angular walls, large glass windows,...
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McDonald's No. 1 Store Museum (category Googie architecture)
The McDonald's #1 Store Museum was housed in a replica of the former McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois, US, opened by Ray Kroc in April 1955...
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Westchester, Los Angeles (section Architecture)
popularized 'Googie' style". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 26, 2013. Hess, Alan (2004). Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture. Chronicle...
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Retrofuturism (category Architectural styles)
futuristic vision found its ultimate expression in the development of Googie architecture or Populuxe design. As applied to fiction, this brand of retrofuturistic...
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This is a list of Googie architecture structures in Canada which includes a photographic gallery with a brief description of some of the structures which...
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Futurist architecture is an early-20th century form of architecture born in Italy, characterized by long dynamic lines, suggesting speed, motion, urgency...
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