A curvilinear downtown body shop has a high-class history

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Hiten Adhvaryu didn’t realize he was becoming part of history when he leased the old Horn’s body shop location from the Horns a year ago—but he knew he liked 1427 Long Beach Blvd.’s avant garde looks (curvy walls, shark fin sign, round showroom) and [...]

A Spanish Bungalow gets the high-end hotel makeover

When friends see the suite-like bedroom David Galindo designed for Chris Sesoko and Javier Rodriguez, they figure the Belmont Heights couple razed an exterior wall and pushed out into the back yard of their 1920s Spanish bungalow. In fact, they merely cleaned their room.
It was about time, says [...]

The belief system that powers condo sales in downtown Long Beach

They’re calling it Pine@Sixth, with that little character for the “at” sign, which raises the question: Which Pine at Sixth? There are four corners: the old Press-Telegram building—soon to be lofts; Rite-Aid (formerly Thrifty); and the units built to replace the old Long Beach Plaza.
Which [...]

Reviving a Belmont Shore Spanish Revival

PHOTO by ZACK PIANKO
When Mark Estrada was a kid in ’60s-era Rowland Heights, developers had just begun to harvest a bumper crop of tract homes from L.A. and Orange County farmland. He went to work for a lumber company in Corona, a city where “Spanish Revival” means a suburban tract [...]

The Walker Building: Home is where the floating stairway is

When the Southern Californian thinks of a home, he/she thinks of a house: back yards, roofs, weird neighbor across the street who insists on painting his house that color.
Apartments? No. Apartments are not homes, thinks the Southern Californian. Apartments are those things that faded celebrities die [...]