Crossroads of the World
Designed by local architect Robert V. Derrah as a cosmopolitan shopping center, Crossroads of the World in Hollywood was completed in 1936. The new shopping center was not a full-blown success, but it became an excellent model for outdoors malls across the world. In the 1950s, the Crossroads of the World was converted into an office complex. The central Streamline Moderne structure, in the form of a ship, “sails” down an international street lined with shops. Crossroads of the World features nine buildings in different architectural styles, all of which were renovated in the 1970s to their original appearance. Subsequently it has attracted a new wave of creative tenants, mostly from the entertainment industry. It is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, a US Historic district and on the National Register of Historic Places.
Hollywood, Los Angeles County
Photographer: John Bare