SoCal Landmarks

SoCal Landmarks

A Photography Project

Local landmark

Fleetwood Center, Tarzana, Los Angeles County

Fleetwood Center

Could there be any better expression of SoCal’s car-centric culture than the programmatic architecture of the Fleetwood Center on Ventura Boulevard in Tarzana? It was designed in 1986 by Lee Oakes based on a 1970s Cadillac Fleetwood.

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Grotowski Barn, UCI, Irvine, Orange County

Grotowski Barn

Architect William Pereira created the master plan for the UCI Campus at Urbanus Square, formerly the site of the Newport Harbor Buffalo Ranch. One of the barns, a Sears and Roebuck pre-cut building, was moved to the UCI campus in 1971.

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(W)rapper, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

(W)rapper

Eric Owen Moss Architects’ (W)rapper, (almost) in the Hayden Tract (almost) in Culver City, was completed in 2023. The 235-foot tower has 17 office floors varying in height from 13′-6″ to 24′ with 22,000 sq ft of uninterrupted space.

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