Boxy, dingbat-style apartments dot the San Fernando Valley, the understated architectural design evoking the region’s 1950s post-war boom. But now the Valley’s stock of dingbats is getting a face-lift ...

These units are known as “dingbat”-style apartments — and that’s not a slight, that’s what they’re called apparently because of the midcentury-esque visual motifs on their exterior. Many even have a ...

When architect and writer Wendy Gilmartin was in her early 20s, she lived in West Hollywood in what’s known as a dingbat apartment. While she fondly remembered the lighting and wood floors, she ...

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