LA County Department of Health Services
Arthur Froelich & Associates • 1970 • Los Angeles, CA
Sigma fp L • Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 II, Canon TS-E 90mm f/2.8, Canon TS-E 17mm f/4
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I went downtown to take pictures of the LADWP building next door, but this New Formalist office building kept catching my eye. It’s almost a little Gothic feeling where the brackets leap to the roof. Presumably windowless at the top for lots of 70s-era mainframes? Froelich was known more for his horizontal work (as an internationally renowned horse race track designer), so this vertical design was an outlier for his firm.
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A little fascist-feeling, especially given that windowless block, but the creamy color is interesting. The surrounding gardens — undulating, Japanese — are quite nice as well.
