arches
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Currently hosting 19×8.5-inch alloys, the wheel arches are spacious enough to accommodate more heroic wheels and tires.
Designed in the Romanesque revival style by revered architects Albert R. Walker and Percy A. Eisen, who also created the nearby Oviatt Building as well as the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, the building’s exterior is embellished with dramatic columns and arches.
From Los Angeles Times
But there’s something about seeing it in person—the way the arches soar, how the reddish orange contrasts against the blue of the sky and the blue of the ocean— that amazes me.
From Literature
Rather than make the architecture an afterthought, he uses it as a dynamic stage for the figures, who lean and loll at all levels of the central structure while peering from various levels of balconies and emerging from the arches that flank the throne.
All that remains of the Spanish Colonial Revival building are some arches surrounding what used to be a busy retail space.
From Los Angeles Times
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