new video loaded: Googie, a Futuristic Style of Architecture, Is Endangered Googie architecture is a midcentury design style characterized by dramatic rooflines, pops of color, large glass windows ...

Ashok Sinha for The New York Times That cowboy hat is an example of the architectural style known as Googie (pronounced ghoo-ghee, with two hard G’s), which was popular from the 1940s to the 1970s.

The Googie style was a major architectural trend of the post-war period in the United States. It remains popular to throwback to this style, and [Wesley Treat] got the job to create a sign in this ...

Googie architecture touched down in Los Angeles in 1949 thanks to John Lautner's futuristic design of the long-gone Googie's Coffee Shop in Hollywood. Even though Lautner designed mostly private ...

Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling Alleys’ authors Chris Nichols and Adriene Biondo explore a sorely unheralded golden age.

If all goes according to plan, the iconic sawtooth "Norms" coffee shop sign on La Cienega Boulevard — one of L.A.'s few remaining examples of Googie coffee shop architecture of the midcentury ...