The San Diego City Council on Monday overturned the historic designation of a small, nondescript commercial building on the southeast corner of 4th Avenue and Palm Street in Banker's Hill. Built by ...

The deck of the Thomas J. Atol Residence in Pasadena, California, was built to evoke the bow of a ship. But when the house was under construction, its designer, William Kesling, was behind bars.

The preservation movement across the country is primarily focused on restoring residential architecture and post industrial buildings. With the arrival of the STR Columbia in Buffalo (September 2015), ...

Palo Alto may have its share of Queen Anne, Craftsman, Spanish Revival and Eichler homes, but there’s one style that is nearly impossible to find on its residential streets – Streamline Moderne ...

Hailed in David Gebhard and Robert Winter's An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles as "exuberant Streamline Moderne," Santa Monica's Voss Apartments were built by architect E.P. Fitzgerald in 1937.

Let's face it. The use of glass block almost always comes off as kitschy and dated. This is simply because, in most applications, it looks as if you're trying too hard to capture the essence of Art ...

Most people drive right past Bobby and Marti Brom's low-profile house in Southwest Portland because they don't know to stop. That's OK. In fact, having a nondescript facade concealed for decades by ...

There’s something wonderfully beachy about this Streamline Modern home built in 1936, and that’s special, considering the house is in non-coastal Glendale. The house has been restored, and though ...

John King is the Chronicle’s former urban design critic. His book “Portal: San Francisco’s Ferry Building and the reinvention of American cities,” is now available in paperback by W.W. Norton. Goal ...