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...
32 KB (3,600 words) - 11:07, 13 June 2024
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...
7 KB (694 words) - 01:53, 13 December 2023
Googie architecture structures in the United States which includes a photographic gallery with a brief description of some of the structures. Googie was...
11 KB (764 words) - 02:58, 30 June 2024
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,...
9 KB (816 words) - 22:50, 23 June 2024
Theme Building (category Googie architecture in California)
example of the Mid-century modern design movement later to become known as "Googie". The Airport Theme Building Exterior and Interior was designated as a historic-cultural...
13 KB (1,082 words) - 03:25, 17 February 2024
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...
8 KB (776 words) - 23:10, 27 March 2024
Westchester, Los Angeles (section Architecture)
popularized 'Googie' style". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 26, 2013. Hess, Alan (2004). Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture. Chronicle...
30 KB (2,745 words) - 21:28, 27 March 2024
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...
6 KB (383 words) - 22:44, 9 February 2024
Futurist architecture is an early-20th century form of architecture born in Italy, characterized by long dynamic lines, suggesting speed, motion, urgency...
14 KB (1,359 words) - 00:43, 5 July 2024
Mel's Drive-In (category Googie architecture in California)
maint: archived copy as title (link) Hess, Alan (2004). Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture. Chronicle Books. p. 222. ISBN 978-0811842723. OCLC 249477365...
12 KB (1,198 words) - 03:17, 8 July 2024