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The wonders of Long Beach
There are hundreds of ways to look at Long Beach: Launching into town from the north you get a view of an industrialized tangle of trucks, refineries, port structures. Soon enough, youŽre whipping down a corridor of sparkling glass towers, followed by a string of modern, postmodern, classical buildings: The Ocean Center, the Villa Riviera, the International Tower, the Galaxy all reach for the sky before things settle down along the bluff, bordered on the north by stately summer "cottages" turned multimillion-dollar residences.
Turn inland, youŽll find beautiful buildings some business, some residential (some business converted to residential) along Pine Avenue. And it goes on and on down every street and boulevard: striking and diverse examples of just about every style in the architectural portfolio. There's been a shelf full of books written about Long Beach some looking at its history, most just looking at its sights in scrapbook / photo album formats.
All these details is found in the book,"Long Beach Architecture: The Unexpected Metropolis" by architectural writers Cara Mullio and Jennifer M. Volland (Hennessey & Ingalls). The authors present the architecture, and the history of the architecture, in a perfect balance of photographs and analysis. Cara Mullio, who was born in Long Beach, and Volland, who lives in downtownŽs Walker Building, have documented 100 projects residences, businesses, churches, stores, condo complexes, even a bridge some still in existence, some destroyed, some unrealized, all showing the breadth of ideas that give the city its look.
