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Elizabeth Farrelly14:00, Jun 29 2021 One of history’s most powerful images is a dramatic black-and-white shot of two women in big dresses and tiny pumps chatting in a transparent glass box. It’s night-time. The glass box is held between two sheer white planes high above the Hollywood hills. Its ribbed ceiling, uplit, soars out over limitless space. Out there, gridded with tiny lights and spread to the horizon, is the vast Los Angelean sprawl. That, of course, was before the hubristic smog arrived. These days, the same image shows an horizon of brown smudge. Sterling Davis/Unsplash A lis...

Normal text size Very large text size One of history’s most powerful images is a dramatic black-and-white shot of two women in big dresses and tiny pumps chatting in a transparent glass box. It’s night-time. The glass box is held between two sheer white planes high above the Hollywood hills. Its ribbed ceiling, uplit, soars out over limitless space. Out there, gridded with tiny lights and spread to the horizon, is the vast Los Angelean sprawl. That, of course, was before the hubristic smog arrived. These days, the same image shows an horizon of brown smudge. The house is Pierre Koenig’s...

The domestic fuel scarcity of World War II led to innovation in home heating—especially passive solar technology.

Remarkable modernist houses for sale in Los Angeles Remarkable modernist houses for sale in Los Angeles From mid-century bungalows to coveted Case Study-inspired houses, Los Angeles is the home of show-stopping modernist homes; here, we trawled the internet for the finest examples on the market, so you don’t have to Lovell House by Richard Neutra Los Angeles is the cradle of exuberant modernism, from modest mid-century bungalows to dramatic Case Study-inspired houses and cliff-top palaces of glass and steel. In a fraught urban culture where real estate is at a premium and teardowns are ...

© Sharad Raval/Dreamstime.com When you’re in Los Angeles, you need to visit more than just the beach. Don’t miss these six breathtaking buildings, from the Disney Concert Hall to Case Study House No. 22. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these buildings first appeared in 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Mark Irving (2016). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Lovell House Six years after immigrating to the United States from Vienna, Richard Neutra built Lovell House, which was to forge his reputation. Its owner Philip Lovell’s theories of preventative m...