Long Beach
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Demolition City
They sterilized the land the art deco department stores and the stumpy roots of the buildings of the Pacific Southwest Exhibition have been buried under concrete and rubble. every timber and brick that once shook during the earthquake of ’33 every roadside diner every steepled church; flop-houses and mansions torn down for mini-malls. the Tongva…
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Sketching A Civic Center
I love architecture. The envisioning, design, and construction of buildings fascinates and excites me. I am a student of the form though I have no official education in it. I remember that my love affair started as a child looking at the buildings in my hometown of Long Beach, California…especially the French-Gothic wonder that is…
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LB Civic Center: A New City Hall
The current Long Beach city hall is a fourteen story tower of rough concrete and steel, faced in Darth Vader-black glass overlooking a decrepit and frankly hideous civic center plaza. A marvel of 1970s design and engineering, its structural flaws threaten to topple it in event of a major earthquake. In my dream redesign of…
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LB Civic Center: Historical Society Building
This is the standalone model of the building I designed for the Long Beach Historical Society as part of my LB Civic Center dream project https://thenuminouscosmos.com/2013/12/28/a-new-long-beach-civic-center/ The building would have space for traditional museum displays as well as research areas and a large model of the city, similar to the Panorama of New York city at…
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A New Long Beach Civic Center
The city of Long Beach, California is currently in the midst of pouring over proposals to replace it’s vintage 1970s era Civic Center with a newer, larger, more environmentally friendly structure. Long Beach has a rich history of city halls, starting from its first building constructed during the last decade of the 19th century. It…
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