For our compilations of memories of office towers of the 1940s.

This one's a 1948. Compiled another memory!

 

"Oh good, a combination of Streamline Moderne and International Style, great, great," I muttered.

 

"Oh, good! A combination of Streamline Moderne and International Style! Great!" I exclaimed.

 

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In downtown Los Angeles on April 23rd, 2019, the Mirror Building, a/k/a the Crawford Addition, designed by Rowland Crawford and completed in 1948, at the northwest corner of South Spring Street and West 2nd Street, in the Times Mirror Square complex.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Downtown Los Angeles (7017736)

• Los Angeles (7023900)

• Los Angeles (county) (1002608)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• flags (300195678)

• International Style (modern European architecture style) (300021472)

• limestone (300011286)

• oblique views (300015503)

• office towers (300007046)

• Streamlined Moderne (300253564)

• streetcorner (Q17106091)

• stripes (300010230)

 

Wikidata items:

• 23 April 2019 (Q57350059)

• 1940s in architecture (Q60996001)

• 1948 in architecture (Q922044)

• April 23 (Q2527)

• April 2019 (Q47087596)

• Civic Center (Q4111516)

• flag of the United States of America (Q42537)

• Los Angeles Mirror (Q100307713)

• Los Angeles Times (Q188515)

• newspaper building (Q51879674)

• Rowland Crawford (Q16007369)

• Southern California (Q844837)

• Spring Street (Q86438225)

• Times Mirror Square (Q6682356)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Office buildings—California (sh91003636)

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