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Article: Lincoln monument: how the fight to turn a Venice apartment complex into a landmark is sparking a national debate.(URBAN AFFAIRS)(Lincoln Place, a noteworthy example of modernist architecture)
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- Los Angeles Magazine
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- October 1, 2005
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MANY YEARS AGO I WAS standing in a barracks in Pearl Harbor when a fellow marine pushed his hand about an inch and a half through the wall. Termites had eat en most of the wood behind the paint, he told me, and a lot of the rest of the structure besides. Across the street from our building, which we shared with geckos, cockroaches, the aforementioned termites, and a colony of feral cats, was the beautiful, collegial-looking home of the base's guard company We might be riving in a place like that, my friend explained, but our own crumbling two-story abode couldn't be torn down until a guy came by to take some photos of it, for posterity, because it was on some kind of ...