“Positioned poetically at a fork in the road, the historically designated 1959 Bank of America branch in Palm Springs shimmers in aqua mosaic tile and soars with a sculptural roof that evokes the prow of a ship. Its quirky look is not unfounded: The architect, the late Rudi Baumfeld of Los Angeles–based Gruen Associates, was influenced by Le Corbusier’s 1955 Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, whose swollen, sweeping roofline is likened by many to a nun’s habit, but was actually inspired by a crab shell…”
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