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Santa Monica Pier is located at the most western point of the United States. It is a huge boardwalk that hovers over the beach and into the ocean. Through constant remodeling over the years it is now home of many different things going on…

The 3rd Street Promenade spans around 203,000 square feet, covering two blocks of street. The promenade begins at Broadway and ends at Wilshire Boulevard. The roads are pedestrian only and the whole promenade is full of consumer goods and…

The Landmark well known by its name, The El Bordello Alexandra is a very unique two story, a seven-unit apartment that looks like it belongs in the French Quarter of New Orleans, but it's one block from the Venice Beach boardwalk, being one of the…

St. Paul's Lutheran Church is a Lutheran religious institution located on the intersection of Lincoln Blvd. and Washington Ave in Santa Monica, California. Quintin & Kerr Architects utilized stone and cement-based mortar as the foundation for the…

The Santa Monica City Hall was built as part of a larger project set in place by the federal Public Works Administration (PWA) during the depression era placed by president Franklin Roosevelt. It was created as a means of the first national…

Located in the bustling city of Santa Monica, CA, at 18ft high, the concrete statue of Saint Monica provides us with an expressionless woman who shows her emotion by crossing her hands over her chest and closing her eyes. Her elegantly straight hair…

Deconstruction and Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida was a 20th century French philosophy whose often times controversial views on the forward movement of society are said (in conjunction with the erecting of Parc de la Villette) to be the…

The Art Department Quad acts as the Art and Art History department’s primary location for learning and connecting students to art. The structure’s orthogonal open-air layout efficiently allows for students to take inspiration from the enclosed nature…

A wooden hut elevated by five feet of wooden beams. The entirety of it, including the supporting beams, is painted with six big stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet from top to bottom respectively. Located on the beach at the end…

In the center of a ring of ashy colored foliage and bright yellow wildflowers is what appears to be an odd tree. However, it is actually a cartoon-like rendition of a mushroom cloud made entirely of jumbled, oversized grey chain link wound together.…