California is littered with anonymous buildings built during World War II, when the needs of industry demanded large storage areas. Many of these buildings are now fertile ground for the intervention of architects, in a country where the use of these containers is taking precedence over their destruction. Culver City is one of the places where this type of building abounds, and Eric Owen Moss -an advanced disciple of Frank Gehry- has already carried out some other renovations (see Arquitectura Viva 21).

Lindblade Tower and Paramount Laundry are two neighboring buildings that line the street, leaving a parking lot inside the block. To give them a certain visual continuity on the façade, Moss has placed two porticos whose most characteristic elements are the sort of stubby downspouts that form the supports. So that they would not all be the same, the Lindblade ones are sectioned in half, producing an unsettling sensation of imbalance; and the first one by Paramount stands out from the others, leaning and bending with two angled pieces...[+]