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Tramway Gas Station (Palm Springs Visitors Center)

Tramway Gas Station (Palm Springs Visitors Center)

Tramway Gas Station (Palm Springs Visitors Center)
It is not uncommon to hear a news about great mid century modern architecture being on the verge of demolition. Some are saved, restored and preserved, but unfortunately, many are demolished. The former Tramway Gas Station in Palm Springs, California was one of the fortunate ones – it has been [...]

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Albert Frey

Tramway Gas Station (now the Palm Springs Visitor

Tramway Gas Station (now the Palm Springs Visitor's Center)
Albert Frey (1903 – 1998) was a Swiss-born architect who had contributed in introducing a modern architecture style that came to be known as “desert modernism” around Palm Springs, California. Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Frey was trained as an architect at the Institute of Technology in Winterthur, [...]

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