Lola at the Coffee House, Cafe 101

Oh, grossout.

My old place was subsumed by that gigantic monstrosity...

http://static.travelmuse.com/docs/artwork/la-jolla/la-jolla-hotels-la-jolla-cove-suites-full.jpg

I was two "doors" away from that, clang, clang, clang, clang. Glad they stopped at that. Still, the views I just looked up on the cove are so damned different, re, ah, atmosphere.
I'll have to check if I have any old photos.

No, this is the monstrosity built in 64 - luckily the only one.

Oh, thanks for the SClinic photo. The clinic itself, in my time, turned out to be a sort of cush place for the rich to have diabetes testing. (Stories, I have stories). I shoulda trained at LA County, but there I was because friends were moving to San Diego. The research part of it was good, there were some good scientists there - but alas, I didn't work in that section.

Wow -- nice site for Trattoria and their lunch menu is well priced which is what I checked on first. I'll have to as my friend Alex if he's been there -- he's the director at Madison Gallery.

Right. That was it. But the expansive thing in the photo I just linked is also an ugly to me, though I might change my opinion in person. Maybe I'm not seeing it right..

Anyway, on your photo (thanks) I don't see any victorians immediately to the north, much less a cute little cottage.

Y'know I like trattorias...

Hey, glight, we can spar on the Richard Meier building at the ara pacis..

Kidding, but that's where I first remember conversing with you.

TOTC should have been there in 1964 but don't remember -- I used to stop in for a Bombay martini and an appetizer during the 70's and dined there only once but the check was picked up. I do remember the martinis were over $ 4.00 which would be expensive back then.

Truth is I don't remember my street number on s. coast blvd. then, just that that building was going up on the other side of the house next door.

Oh, right -- wasn't that his huge glass jewelry box? Haven't looked at it in years but usually like Meire's work -- his residential over his commercial, however.

No -- that glass box was a competing architect. I still like the Meier building:


http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/italy/rome/arapacis/meier.html

In 1964, I had NO money. No, as in none. I was busy buying nylons and nurses uniforms with my $160. a month paycheck (I was doing an internship) and paying off beneficial finance $13.00 a month (moving costs) and rent, $95. Until I started doing laundry in the shower, I hauled it across Prospect to a laundramat several streets over.
So, I didn't go to Top of the Cove back then, but it rings a bell.
I have been back since, so I don't look at it just from 1964 eyes. It's almost fun to have the double vision of the town.

Just checked, I do have cove photos, but they don't include the street above. I do have interior and courtyard cottage photos, but not towards the cove in front.
Ah, and after that in my album, several letters from my father.
I won't newly read those until the morning, don't need immense sadness this evening.

Light, last I read about Meier's ara pacis edifice, there were a lot of dumpo reviews. And that fits my bias. I've no idea what I might think if I saw it now in person.

What I remember, though, is you and I and Paola L spouting on the proposal, back on abuzz. I got to know Paola from that, very interesting woman. I met her when I went to new york in '03 (she lived in NY and Rome), when she happened to be dying - and got me into the met, joined Diane and I for lunch, and took us to a few galleries.

So I don't care all that much about the arguments, but the people. Paola was fabulous and you're not bad.

Yeah, I miss Paola. I still love the pure whites and geometric glass patterns with the industrial design element contrasted behind the exhibits of Roman antiquities. What I can't understand is that some of the most impacting design comes out of Italy -- I carried Targetti, Leucos and Luceplan in the showroom. The old Antique Guild in LA were importing all the Italian castoffs caused by the Italians furnishing their home in their own designer's best.

I guess this has suddenly become the architecture forum but here's the Des Moines Art Center by Miere:

I've semi-followed Meier's work. Bro in law was chief inspector at the Getty.. so I got to see it being built on "family days" for those involved in the construction. I'd been paying attention, somewhat, to Meier since the High Museum in Atlanta. Lately I rather like Steven Holl - with the Atkins addition in Kansas City:



And one of these days I suppose I'll go see Libeskind's museum work in Denver -
I'll take my sneakers, in case I end up climbing the walls:

Speaking of Liebiskind:

That's was a teensy postage stamp size on About.com -- sorry for the page spread. We'll have to post our way out of it. Of course, all the lattes are now gallon size.

While he lost the WTC battle, the Korean Yongsand Center is his:



I didn't know they fixed the larger image problem, probably long ago.