Palm Springs
Palm Springs, a California resort town, brings up dreams of the good life. Besides being a wonderful place to relax, the area is known for its arts, its culture, and its fab Midcentury Modern architecture. That architecture favors clean, simple lines and little embellishment. The exterior? It’s normally characterized by partial brick and glass walls, floor-to-ceiling…
Imagine if you will the cast from the television show The Brady Bunch hop on the bus with The Partridge Family cast and they all take a ride to the airport to catch a flight to Hawaii to visit the cast of Hawaii Five-O. Aloha! It is fantastic. Crossover shows like this only come around…
Years ago I was an assistant coach on my nephew’s 9- and 10-year-old baseball team. Maestro, cue “Habanera” from the opera Carmen. This team was the incarnation of The Bad News Bears. In the distance, I can still hear my sister yelling, “Get ready to run outfield!” On one particular game day, one of our…
People across the country are trying to go for one last dip in the record-breaking heat this summer — but some are saying “not so fast” to a national pool-sharing program. We reported last week on the gaining popularity of Swimply, a social platform like Airbnb where homeowners rent swimming pools to guests for the…
This pedigree suburban Los Angeles compound was designed by Pereira Luckman AIA—the same architects behind LAX’s iconic Space Age Structure.