#dingbat apartment los angeles

[aitchcs]

Found in Culver City, CA

#dingbats #dingbat apartment los angeles #los angeles #Culver City #walkinglosangeles #walking in LA

[midwesternartlovertraveler]

Architect Breaks Down 5 of the Most Common Los Angeles Homes | Architect...

#youtube #architecture #los angeles #california #dingbat #mission revival #spanish colonial revival #california bungalow #bungalow court apartments #boardwalk architecture

[platosgirl09]

LA Architecture

The Dingbat

Named after “dingbat” characters on a typewriter; characters that are symbols rather than letters and numbers.

Usually have a symbol on the building

Look for:

Boxy structure

“Soft Story” open area for parking that spans wide across lot

“Dingbat” symbol branding the apartment

Entrances on the side

Space maximalist - takes up almost entire lot

Bungalow Court Apartments

Look for:

Many inward-facing units to inspire community

Units feature landscaping and a shared courtyard

Mission Revival

Built to be very practical in heat-protection

Look for:

Clay tile roofs

Entry Colonnade Archways: built to help block sunlight

Boardwalk Beach House

Often times privately commissioned, so lots of variety

Look for:

Back of house opens up to beach boardwalk

Front of the house opens to alley with garage

Boardwalk-facing side usually elevated or walled for privacy

California Bungalow

Originally made so you can buy from a catalogue and building supplies would be shipped

Look for:

Exposed Rafters

Deep, open porch

Gabled (triangular) roofs

Reference:

Architect Breaks Down 5 of the Most Common Los Angeles Homes - Architectural Digest.

#LA #Apartments #Architecture #California

[ashtrayfloors]

“I think friends can literally save your life,” Dolly told Ladies’ Home Journal, and I agree. In his book Nothing Personal, James Baldwin writes, “I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of the time.” That saving doesn’t have to be sexual. There’s a particular sadness in thinking—as wonderful as sex is—that it’s the only kind of love that can save us. During the worst of the many wounds of 2018, if I hadn’t had my friends messaging me throughout the day and night, I would have folded. I can assure you I never fucked any of them, but the intensity of my love is not less than if I had. “You can’t make old friends,” Dolly and Kenny Rogers sang to each other in their 2013 duet. In so many ways I think of my friend Jess as a life partner, and she is just about the straightest woman I’ve ever met. Maybe sex is easier for people to understand than love. It’s more straightforward. Love is complicated and easy prey for nostalgia, which itself is not nearly as simple as it seems.

These days we think of nostalgia as a harmless walk down memory lane, but the term was actually coined in the eighteenth century to describe a unique kind of depression experienced by sailors away from home. It was seen as an actual ailment, and that seems correct. Think of the whole “Make America Great Again” thing...; think of people’s yearning for things to be as they were, when life was “simple.” A lot of forgetting is involved in this. In an episode of her 1970s talk show, Dolly visits noted monster, and former president, Andrew Jackson’s house wearing an antebellum dress and holding a parasol. She sings—and one can’t cringe enough—that de facto Confederate anthem “Dixie.” Later in the same show, she has musician Freddy Fender on to talk about Chicano music, and they sing “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” in Spanish. I wonder how much she stopped to think about any of that, because it’s not like she’s not a thinker.

Dolly herself, in her 1969 song “In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad),” ultimately rejects the notion of the past as preferable, although her songs are very often steeped in nostalgia, whether rosy or wistful. Still, the song states that you couldn’t pay her enough to go back and live like she did in her youth. This is pretty unequivocal! Yet when my grandmother lost most of her memories, what she retained were mostly those from her foundational years into young adulthood. Maybe we’re hardwired for nostalgia. I’ll admit that the last time I was in Los Angeles, riding down Fairfax or La Brea or La Cienega and seeing the dingbat apartment buildings with their tiny windows, my throat choked up, not because I miss being inside of them but because my body felt so far from it and yet those sights and sounds and all of it are actually inside of my body, somewhere, waiting to be reactivated.

“Is nostalgia even an emotion?” poet Becca Klaver wonders in a 2017 essay about the subject. “Maybe it’s a drive, like hunger or lust. It’s in the body.” She notes that “the past seems so easy to lose.” Remembering, then, is urgent work.

—Lynn Melnick, from “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind” (I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton, University of Texas Press, 2022)

#lynn melnick #i've had to think up a way to survive #nostalgia #friendship #dolly parton #quotations #recently read #this book is EVERYTHING #i wanted to quote like half of it #but ultimately this was the part that hit me hardest at this current moment

[twiststreet]

“Dingbat apartment buildings are so commonplace in LA, that most people don’t stop to think about how their presence has shaped the identity of Los Angeles. Therefore, I felt like these iconic buildings were deserving of joining my catalog of miniatures.” --  ItsKieranTime

#Why would you NOT live in Los Angeles? #visual feed

[kokujin-josei-simmer]

Well, Del Sol Valley ended up looking very much like its real life counterpart, Los Angeles. 

I planted a palm tree, a small bush, bought the eco upgrade for the dishwashers in 4 apartments (2 are empty) and added 4 solar panels to the roof. Got it back to neutral lol, can’t have my sims choking on that LA smog. 

It’s a struggle though because before I left my Upland Dingbats (*dingbat is a type of apartment building common in LA and various parts of the Sun Belt region, apparently there are some dingbats in Vancouver, BC and here in NYC too over in the Bronx), I saw that arrow moving to the right again 😩

I’ll think of something because I don’t want a smog city 🤔

*I love dingbats, that whole retro vibe and the fact that the ones in LA have so many different styles is one reason I wanna visit the city. 

Pics of the Dingbat apartments are from Wikipedia:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat_(building)

#Sims 4 #Sims 4 rotational play #Del Sol Valley #Black Simmer #Black Simblr #kokujin-josei-simmer

[ericpoptone]

Homes Fit for Heroes -- Motel-Style Apartments

Homes Fit for Heroes — Motel-Style Apartments

Metro Los Angeles boasts numerous varieties of apartments and other multi-tenant housing types. Bungalow courts and garden apartments all have always enjoyed a healthy following. I’m sure I’m not the only Angeleno who loves a nice courtyard apartment or those hotel-style mid-rises topped with neon signs that are found throughout Midtown and Westlake. Even the much-derided dingbat has its…

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#affordable housing #Apartments #dingbats #Homes Fit for Heroes #Motel-style apartments #Motels #upzoning

[artist-edward-ruscha]

Some Los Angeles Apartments, Edward Ruscha, 1965, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Prints and Drawings

Glued-on softcover; white Vicksburg Vellum paper; titled lithographed in green ink on front and spine; glassine dust jacket; 48 pp. This copy: First edition. One of Ed Ruscha's groundbreaking mass-produced artist's books, Some Los Angeles Apartments documents the banality and standardization of the urban landscape of his adopted home of Los Angeles. In deadpan style, Ruscha presents an extended sequence of black and white photographs of the city's ubiquitous mid-century dingbat and low-rise apartment block. For Ruscha, the array of variations within a formulaic architectural type reflected the unique culture of postwar Los Angeles, while revealing the dreariness of the modern American lifestyle. Ruscha captions each of the book's 34 photolithographs with the building's street address, which collectively serve as a roadmap of sorts for the city's sprawling residential neighborhoods. There is no additional text. Size: 7 x 5 1/2 x 3/16 in. (17.8 x 14 x .48 cm) Medium: Offset printing; bound volume

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/32501/

#minneapolisinstituteofart #edwardruscha #printsanddrawings #artsmia

[manfrommars2049]

"Dingbat House", my tribute to an iconic but controversial Los Angeles apartment. via outrun

#outrun #HaiGeorge

[aitchcs]

#Los Angeles #dingbat apartment los angeles #vintage los angeles #funky architecture #funky building

[justinparpan]

A cool dingbat apartment in central Los Angeles.

#midcentury #losangeles

[thatsnakeman]

Dingbat House, my latest tribute to the iconic yet controversial Los Angeles apartment. via /r/outrun

Dingbat House, my latest tribute to the iconic yet controversial Los Angeles apartment. https://ift.tt/3aK9oRJ Submitted April 05, 2020 at 12:02PM by HaiGeorge via reddit https://ift.tt/2UI5q6k

#IFTTT #reddit #Outrun

[architecturalrecord-blog1]

Crest Apartments is a low-cost housing project designed by @michaelmaltzanarchitecture in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Inspired by "dingbats," known to be boxy, cheap-looking structures raised atop columns, the architects reinterpreted the "familiar approach" creating a smooth, luminous and precisely-detailed structure that is complex and subtle. Read more about this #AR_BuildingTypeStudy on multifamily housing at http://ow.ly/1Rtu30fQare Photo © @iwanbaan (at Van Nuys, Los Angeles)

#ar_buildingtypestudy

[wealthbronze59-blog]

4,600 ‘soft-story’ apartment buildings still need earthquake retrofits

Los Angeles city officials and property owners are making progress retrofitting the types of apartment buildings that proved especially vulnerable in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The devastating—and deadly—temblor struck 25 years ago this week, toppling and damaging tens of thousands of buildings.

As of this month, 1,500 “soft-story” buildings have been retrofitted, and roughly 6,400 are in-progress, according to figures from the city’s building and safety department.

Owners for about 5,000 buildings have yet to submit retrofitting plans, the first major benchmark in the process. But “orders to comply” have been issued for all of the 12,865 soft-story buildings that need seismic upgrades.

The orders are the first step in the city’s mandatory retrofit program, which requires owners, within two years, to either submit proof that their structures have already been retrofitted or file plans to do so.

The city’s chief resilience officer Marissa Aho called the progress “really exciting news.”

“We’re ahead in terms of the number of buildings” that have met their two-year compliance deadline so far, Aho says.

She said the city made an effort to send orders to comply to the owners of larger buildings first, so the retrofits would begin quickest for the bulk of the units that needed them.

Soft-story buildings are wood-frame structures where the first story is largely open— like LA’s famed dingbat-style apartment buildings, which contain open space for parking on their first floors.

The Northridge earthquake highlighted the vulnerabilities of these types of buildings and their proliferation throughout the city.

Approximately 49,000 apartment units in LA were destroyed or seriously damaged due to the Northridge earthquake; two-thirds of those were in soft-story buildings, according to a 2006 report from the Public Policy Institute of California.

Twenty one years after Northridge, in 2015, the city rolled out a program requiring property owners to strengthen these buildings to withstand earthquakes. It began sending notices to property owners in May 2016, according to the city’s department of building and safety.

Last year at this time, retrofits on 608 soft-story buildings were complete and another almost 4,000 retrofits were in progress, according to the mayor’s office. The new numbers show that those totals have at least doubled since then.

Retrofits are also required for nearly 1,500 non-ductile concrete buildings built before 1977, another type of structure prone to collapsing. They have been identified by seismologist Lucy Jones as “the deadliest buildings when they fall.”

By the end of 2018, the city had issued orders to comply to about 1,200 non-ductile concrete buildings. Owners for about 160 of those structures have begun the retrofitting process. They have 25 years to complete construction.

Mandatory building retrofits are part of a larger plan released in 2014 focused on preparing the city to weather and bounce back from a major earthquake.

The plan made a variety of recommendations aimed at better earthquake preparedness, including upgrades to water delivery systems and mandating cell phone towers that are less likely to topple in a quake.

With a 93 percent chance that an earthquake as big as the deadly Northridge quake (or bigger) will strike Los Angeles again in less than 30 years, the city’s upgrades can’t come soon enough.

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Source: https://la.curbed.com/2018/1/17/16871368/earthquake-apartments-safe-northridge

#read more #see more #check it out #interesting #learn more

[artist-edward-ruscha]

Some Los Angeles Apartments, Edward Ruscha, 1965, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Prints and Drawings

Glued-on softcover; white Vicksburg Vellum paper; titled lithographed in green ink on front and spine; glassine dust jacket; 48 pp. This copy: First edition. One of Ed Ruscha's groundbreaking mass-produced artist's books, Some Los Angeles Apartments documents the banality and standardization of the urban landscape of his adopted home of Los Angeles. In deadpan style, Ruscha presents an extended sequence of black and white photographs of the city's ubiquitous mid-century dingbat and low-rise apartment block. For Ruscha, the array of variations within a formulaic architectural type reflected the unique culture of postwar Los Angeles, while revealing the dreariness of the modern American lifestyle. Ruscha captions each of the book's 34 photolithographs with the building's street address, which collectively serve as a roadmap of sorts for the city's sprawling residential neighborhoods. There is no additional text. Size: 7 x 5 1/2 x 3/16 in. (17.8 x 14 x .48 cm) Medium: Offset printing; bound volume

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/32501/

#edwardruscha #printsanddrawings #artsmia #minneapolisinstituteofart

[palmsisthebomb]

Last night I went down an internet rabbit hole in search of information on and reactions to the Crapi Apartments on Overland Avenue in Palms. I suggest you do this, too, but this 2015 search result from Ellen Bloom is especially illuminating.

According to Ellen, Crapi Apartments (and the Chee-Zee Apartments around the corner) are both jokes of the owner of National Promotions and Advertising, now known as Alchemy Media, which specializes in outdoor advertising. Alchemy’s office is also located down the block on Overland in the building with the giant hot dog on it. What a bunch of jokesters.

Thank you, Ellen Bloom! Thank you, Alchemy Media!

#PalmsLA #Crapi Apartments #Los Angeles #dingbat #mid-century modern