Transportation + the Strip
TRANSPORTATION
Mass transit:
Chicago -- commuter lines, Loop (elevated)
London
Joseph Paxton, Great Victorian Way, 1855 proposal (plan)
Underground, 1863-
Paris, Metro, 1900 (Guimard stations)
New York
Park Avenue, NY Central RR, Grand Central Station (1903-)
Upper Park Avenue proposal, Harlem, Columbia Univ., 1967 (section)
Philadelphia, Market Street East , 1960s- (plan, section)
Montreal -- mid-1960s- (plan of underground network)
Metro, Place Bonaventure, Place Ville Marie, Eatons' Square Automobile: (LA expressways, Houston parking)
(“hitching post” parking, Brady, TX)
(strip, San Diego, CA)
(Boston, Route 128)
(Houston shopping center)
Las Vegas Strip (view, wedding chapel)
Robert Venturi, Learning From Las Vegas, 1972
"duck," (view, Riverhead, NY)
"decorated shed" (view, Las Vegas)
Best Products Showroom
SITE
Peeling Showroom, Richmond, VA, 1971
Tilt Showroom, Towson, MD, 1976-78
Indeterminate Facade Showroom, Houston, TX,1975
Notch Showroom, Sacramento, CA, 1976-77
College Life Insurance, Indianapolis, IN, Roche & Dinkeloo, 1967
Transamerica Building, Wm. Peirera, San Francisco
Renaissance Center, Detroit, John Portman, 1977 (view, interior)