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Retro Road Trip

Retro Road Trip: Las Vegas’ La Concha Visitors Center + Neon Boneyard

November 19, 2017
Written and photographed by Ken MacIntyre

Currently pulling double duty as a Visitors Center and the gateway through which guests can enter the Neon Museum’s Boneyard, the La Concha Visitors Center started out as the iconic lobby to the La Concha Motel, designed by noted modernist architect Paul R. Williams, in 1961.

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Architecture + Renovation
Retro Road Trip

Las Vegas’ Modernist Guardian + Legacy of Paul R. Williams

June 25, 2017
Written by Ken MacIntyre and Photography by Ken MacIntyre

Amid the gambling of Sin City sits an unlikely beacon of midcentury Googie architecture: the Guardian Angel Cathedral.

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Architecture + Renovation
Preservation Corner

Western Preservation Groups to Watch

January 15, 2017
Written by Sarah Jane Stone

Go West, young mod! Whether you live in the desert of Nevada or the forests of Oregon, editor Sarah Jane Stone has some western preservation groups for you.

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