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Citizens Bank
AZ
Photo by RoadsidePeek.com

The Citizen's Bank features some mid-century architecture in both of its buildings. Check out the curvature and round building.

Imperial Schools (Formerly General Motors Testing Laboratory)
Phoenix, AZ
Photos and info Elgin MacMillan

Check out the Imperial Schools building in Phoenix, AZ, which was formerly the home of the General Motors Testing Laboratory back in the day. First off, here is some information on this building, which had been originally designed in the streamline moderne style.

General Motors Testing Laboratory
2001 E. Roosevelt in Phoenix Arizona.
Architect: Austin Co., from Cleveland OH

Built in 1937 as the General Motors Testing Laboratory, this is the best example in Phoenix of the streamlined style of the modernistic movement. The building was constructed as a testing laboratory for automobiles and armored tanks prior to WWII. The site was General Motors' first permanent proving ground in the West and was in use until 1953. The building is exclusively streamlined modern in design and is the first structure in Phoenix to have exploited the extensive use of glass block as "modern" material. There are painted-over glass blocks underneath the louvers.

The above text has been excerpted from:

A Guide to the Architecture of Metro Phoenix by the Central Arizona Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1983.

Many thanks to Elgin MacMillan for referencing this information.

Washburn Piano
Phoenix, AZ
Photos and info Elgin MacMillan

The Washburn Piano is located in a treasure of a building in Phoenix, AZ. Unfortunately, this 1964 building is being torn down, despite its gold anodized aluminum still being in great shape.

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