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KGEI Transmitter Building, Redwood City, CA, 2024.
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Captured with the Rodenstock 50mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 digital back, Cambo 1250 camera (vertically shifted -5mm).
This modest but handsome, art-deco-accented building was built in 1941 to house the transmitter for "KGEI", a commercial shortwave radio broadcast station whose programming could be heard across the Pacific. It shut down in 1994.
@mattblaze@federate.social I’m a complete sucker for Art Deco architecture. Funny, though, how the windows allude to grass brick without actually being glass brick. I wonder why they didn’t use glass brick?
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@ClimateJenny@mastodon.social Yeah, it doesn't seem to be a retrofit, either. The windows are similar in historical photos.
@mattblaze@federate.social @ClimateJenny@mastodon.social Isn't that kind of a common industrial-building window style? Like in manufacturing / warehouses.