Westwood

#173: Ralphs Grocery Store (Westwood)

#173: Ralphs Grocery Store (Westwood)

September 28, 2023
City Planning
The 1929 Ralphs Westwood building is one of the only remaining vestiges of the SoCal grocery chain's early expansion years. It was also one of the very first buildings in Westwood Village, a neighborhood whose growth paralleled UCLA's.
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#161: Wilshire Federal Building (Westwood)

#161: Wilshire Federal Building (Westwood)

July 4, 2023
Architecture
The 1969 Wilshire Federal Building is a 17-story, late modernist office tower that houses some of the unsexiest branches of the American government. Compositionally, it's a pretty spectacular work by Charles Luckman Associates. It's also been the site of numerous major protests staged here over its 50+ year history.
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#126: Richard Neutra’s Strathmore Apartments (Westwood)

#126: Richard Neutra’s Strathmore Apartments (Westwood)

November 12, 2022
Architecture
The Strathmore Apartments are one of four complexes designed in Westwood by famed modernist architect Richard Neutra. With its unadorned white stucco walls, flat roofs and long rows of ribbon windows, the Strathmore is quintessential international style. It's also surprisingly a plant lover's paradise, and a great example of Neutra's ability to design spaces that respond to the needs of his occupants with unfussy grace.
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