Architecture in the Local Region
Orange County is known for a lot of things ranging from famous surfing spots, many Fortune 500 companies, celebrity homes, being the suburban capital of California and Disneyland. But what about its architecture? We have an abundance of beautiful architecture in our region that is frequently overlooked. So here we are with this season’s architecture highlights, so you can take your own tour this weekend of these amazing places.
1 | Segerstrom Center for the Arts
600 Town Center Dr, Costa Mesa, Ca 92626
This world-class performing arts venue was designed by Cesar Pelli – Pelli, Clark, Pelli and Assoc. and built in 1983-86 on a five-acre parcel of land in Costa Mesa, Ca. The design intent was to create a concert hall in an elegant and vibrant sculptural form that glows in Southern California.
2 | Crystal Cathedral
13280 Chapman Ave, Garden Grove, CA 92840
Redesigned in the late 1970s by Philip Johnson and John Burgee presented an ‘all glass church’ that encompassed everything Robert Schuller requested, “a building that was both a building and not a building, so that in a sense he could be in an enclosure, but it would be as if he were out of doors, which is where he began his ministry: so, this building was an entire shell of glass.”
3 | Pavilion and Rudolph Schindler Lovell Beach House
1242 W Oceanfront, Newport Beach, CA 92661
The Lovell Beach House was one of the first modern houses in Southern California located in Newport Beach, that became a perfect example of the California International Style. Designed by R.M. Schindler in 1926, his design intent was to develop a living space inside five free-standing concrete frames cast in the square figure eights representing Russian Constructivism.