Editing Venice, Los Angeles (section)

===Architecture===
Originally established as a planned city imitating Venice, Italy, Venice is home to a large number of early 1900s buildings built to emulate [[Italian Renaissance]] architecture. Particularly along Windward Avenue, where an arched arcade covers the sidewalks on portions of both sides of the street. Similar buildings originally formed a continuous arcade from the boardwalk to the former lagoon (now the Windward traffic circle) but these were condemned by the City of Los Angeles after annexation. Only through the efforts of local preservationists were the few buildings that remain able to be preserved, although many were substantially modified.[[File:052607-006-Chiat-Day.jpg|thumb|right|The public sculpture ''Giant Binoculars'' by [[Claes Oldenburg]] and [[Coosje van Bruggen]] fronts what is popularly called the [[Binoculars Building]] (originally Chiat/Day Building, designed by architect [[Frank Gehry]]), at 340 Main Street. The sculpture is listed as a Los Angeles Historic Resource.<ref>{{cite web |title=Binoculars |url=http://historicplacesla.org/reports/929ffc65-1c3a-42d3-a241-4b5a76bcf564 |year=2017 |website=Los Angeles Historic Resources Inventory |access-date=May 14, 2020}}</ref>]]

Designers [[Charles and Ray Eames]] had their offices at the Bay Cities Garage on Abbot Kinney Boulevard from 1943 on, when it was still part of Washington Boulevard; Eames products were also manufactured there until the 1950s.<ref>Roger Vincent (July 15, 2012), [https://www.latimes.com/business/la-xpm-2012-jul-15-la-fi-mo-eames-headquarters-sold-20120713-story.html Former Eames furniture design headquarters sold in Venice] ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref> The brick building's interior was redesigned by Frank Israel in 1990 as a creative workspace, opening up the interior and creating sightlines all the way through the building.<ref name="la.curbed.com">Eve Bachrach (May 3, 2013), [http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/05/touring_3_of_venices_modern_arch_gems_of_the_70s_and_80s.php Touring 3 of Venice's Modern Arch Gems of the '70s and '80s] ''Curbed LA''.</ref>

Originally located at the Venice home of [[Pritzker Prize]]–winning architect and [[Southern California Institute of Architecture|SCI-Arc]] founder [[Thom Mayne]], the Architecture Gallery was in existence for just ten weeks in 1979 and featured new work by then-emerging architects [[Frank Gehry]], [[Eric Owen Moss]], and [[Thom Mayne|Morphosis]].<ref>[http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/4883-a-confederacy-of-heretics-the-architecture-gallery-venice-1979 A Confederacy of Heretics: The Architecture Gallery, Venice, 1979; Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles; March 29 – July 7, 2013] [[Graham Foundation]], Chicago.</ref> Constructed on a long, narrow lot in 1981, the Indiana Avenue Houses/Arnoldi Triplex was designed Frank Gehry in partnership with artists [[Laddie John Dill]] and [[Charles Arnoldi]].<ref name="la.curbed.com"/> [[Frank Gehry]] has designed several well-known houses in Venice, including the Jane Spiller House (completed 1979) and the Norton House (completed 1984) on Venice Beach.<ref>Mildred Friedman (2009) "Frank Gehry The Houses", Rozzoli, New York</ref> In 1994, sculptor [[Robert Graham (sculptor)|Robert Graham]] designed a fortress-like art studio and residence for himself and his wife, actress [[Anjelica Huston]], on Windward Avenue.<ref>Lauren Beale (March 7, 2012), [https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-hotprop-anjelica-huston-20120307-story.html Venice live/work space of Anjelica Huston, Robert Graham for sale] ''Los Angeles Times''.</ref>