Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Norms restaurant at 470 N. La Cienega Blvd. in West Hollywood. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) It could be the end of an era ...

Architectural photographer Jack Laxer died Tuesday at the age of 91 in Culver City, Calif., leaving a vast chronicle of Googie coffee shops and travel images. Laxer was a master of three-dimensional ...

The “Googie” style of mid-century modern architecture got its name from Googie’s Coffee Shop, a Hollywood diner built in 1949. Architect John Lautner designed the building at the corner of Sunset and ...

Coffee is serious business around here and so is coffee shop design. A quick visit to a few independent coffee shops will reveal spaces that offer far more than a caffeine fix. Independent coffee ...

We Coffee – Vila Nova Conceição / Pitá Arquitetura. Image © Manuel Sá At 23.5 degrees north and 23.5 degrees south of the equator respectively, sit the Tropics ...

It could be the end of an era for a place that came to define a certain architectural and food aesthetic for Los Angeles. If all goes according to plan, the iconic sawtooth "Norms" coffee shop sign on ...