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Radio, Television, and Telephone Stations
Lobby photo courtesy Christopher Mulrooney Demolition in Progress!	KEHE (KFI) Radio Building, Los Angeles, California, 1936 by Morgan, Walls & Clements. From the website: "This masterpiece, with its streamline interior and exterior, rounded brick corner, elegant proportions, and spired entranceway, has been condemned by the Los Angeles Unified School District to make way for an elementary school playground in a scandalous and reprehensible act of destruction. The building was declared eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The plans are reported as missing and found. The architect is said to have been Stiles O. Clements. Read more about this case on Mulrooney's website. Photograph above courtesy Christopher Mulrooney.
	Indiana Bell Telephone Company Switching Station, Caudill, Rowlett, Scott (Paul Kennon, principal architect) 1978. Reflecting glass mirrors the surroundings and a two-story trellis, covered with wisteria, serves as a natural wall. Air-conditioning and heating systems are masked by decorative and colorful pipes. Details of the building here. Photograph and site by Mary Ann Sullivan, Professor of English and Art History Bluffton College, Ohio, and her Digital Imaging Project: Art Historical Images of Sculpture and Architecture from Pre-Historic to Post-Modern.

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