COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
United Oil Company Gas Station, Slauson and La Brea
Image View:
Raking entrance of store under C-shaped canopy, and parking
Creator:
Kanner Architects (American architectural firm, renamed 1994)
Location:
site: Los Angeles, California, United States
Location Note:
corner of W. Slauson and S. La Brea avenues
GPS:
+33.988149-118.358834
Date:
2007-2009 (creation)
Cultural Context:
American
Style Period:
Twenty-first century
Work Type 1:
service station
Classification:
architecture
Material:
steel; glass; glazed ceramic tile; marble
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Measurements:
630.8 m2 (area)
Description:
With a price tag of $5 million, roughly twice the design and construction cost of a typical station, the 12-pump gas station, mini-market and car wash was commissioned by Jeff Appel, president of the Southern California independent family-owned gas retailer. Designed by L.A. modernist Stephen H. Kanner, the station pays homage to both the L.A. freeway system and to the curvaceous geometry of 1950's Googie architecture, with its bold use of glass and neon and upswept roofs. Appel regularly commissions some one of a kind stations, some theme-based. (Source: ArchDaily; http://www.archdaily.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Eight
Identifier:
1A1-KAA-UOC-B18
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
United Oil Company Gas Station, Slauson and La Brea
