Talk About an “Eye” For Design
Although it may look like someone took an outrageously kitsch movie prop from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) and placed it between two buildings in the middle of Venice, CA, the reality is that the Binoculars Building was anything but!
Frank Gehry, in conjunction with Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, originally designed this 30’ tall structure for advertising agency Chiat/Day along with two other buildings at its site on Main Street. In true Gehry fashion, Binoculars Building functions as a pair of meeting rooms, complete with integrated skylights. After the discovery of toxic waste on the site led to some delays, Binoculars Building was completed in 1991. Chiat/Day has since moved to another facility and the site is now leased by Google. The irony of *Binoculars Building serving as a campus for the world’s most popular search engine is seen by many as more than pure coincidence!
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*Picture courtesy of: By Bobak Ha’Eri – Own work, CC BY 3.0,