#ProgrammaticArchitecture

2024-06-28

Hot Cha Cafe
"In about 1932, a small, hexagonal shingle-style Victorian building in Long Beach got a programmatic makeover, adding a large, angular percolator made of metal and glass on the roof, to become the Hot Cha Café. The name changed to the Koffee Pot Café, but it remained a coffee shop into the 1960s…"
If this was still a cafe I’d totally go there just for the style. I’m glad it was restored instead of demolished!

#cafe #restaurant #buildings #architecture #teapot #tea #ProgrammaticArchitecture

2024-06-19
Yeah, #RandysDonuts in #Inglewood has been done before, but I figured I'd try my hand (lens?) at it.

#ProgrammaticArchitecture #donuts #GiantDonut #weird #LosAngeles #sunny
Low, flat-roofed building with a GIANT DONUT on top of the roof, poised sideways so the sky can be seen through the hole.
2024-03-02

The Hot Cha Cafe at So Cal Landmarks:

In about 1932, a small, hexagonal shingle-style Victorian building in Long Beach got a programmatic makeover, adding a large, angular percolator made of metal and glass on the roof, to become the Hot Cha Café. The name changed to the Koffee Pot Café, but it remained a coffee shop into the 1960s...

If this was still a cafe I'd totally go there just for the style. I'm glad it was restored instead of demolished!

#Architecture #ProgrammaticArchitecture #coffee #cafe #LongBeach

A small, red, one-level octagonal building sandwiched between what looks like a house and a garage on a sunny day. A tree sticks in from out of fram, and cars are parked in the street out front. It looks like there's only space for a single room, and the windows and glass door feature a logo and the name of a salon that you might be able to make out on a bigger display than the one I'm using.

Most unusual: A stylized coffee percolator sits a top the pyramidal roof.

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