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A fake building (also known as a fake house, false-front house, fake façade, or transformer house in specific situations) is a government building, structure, or public utility housing that uses urban and/or suburban camouflage, specifically with the intention to disguise equipment and city infrastructure facilities that some may consider aesthetically unpleasing in non-industrial neighborhoods.
Classic Googie sign at Warren, Ohio drive-in. Googie's beginnings are with the Streamline Moderne architecture of the 1930s. [16] Alan Hess, one of the most knowledgeable writers on the subject, writes in Googie: Ultra Modern Road Side Architecture that mobility in Los Angeles during the 1930s was characterized by the initial influx of the automobile and the service industry that evolved to ...
A house in California, built out of beer cans, abalone shells, car parts, and other garbage previously tossed out by local residents, is now a historic landmark. Northeast Greenland National Park The world's largest national park consists of over a quarter of Greenland's total land area, is larger than 166 sovereign states, and has no permanent ...