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 ...

The campaign to preserve a 1920s Streamline Moderne single-family home in Fairfax won a big victory today when the city’s cultural heritage commission approved its application for monument status. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Film producer and actor Stuart Cornfeld and his wife, performance artist Johanna Went, have listed their home in the Hollywood Hills for sale at $2.65 million. Set above the famed Chateau Marmont, the ...

A Pasadena home, designed by architect William Kesling in a Streamline Moderne style, is on the market for $1.895 million. The 2,106-square-foot house sits a corner lot in the Poppy Peak Hills area.

It once sat in the shadow of Ebbets Field, its streamlined curves and prominent signage drawing in drivers in need of a vehicular tune-up. While similar buildings in Miami Beach and Los Angeles have ...

IT WASN’T THE post-and-beam of their dreams, but you don’t come across a near-perfect architectural jewel every day—much less one that’s cloaked in natural light and located in a spot you already want ...

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. Catch ...

Lots of Chicago-area buildings make you stop and ask: “What’s that building?” WBEZ’s Reset is collecting the stories behind them! You can also find them on this map. It may not be obvious at first ...