Mid-Century Souper Salad Building
In 1977 an unusual bank building was built in west Phoenix
at the Metro Center Mall. It started
life as a Western Savings Bank and nowadays is a Souper Salad restaurant. This innovative round-shaped structure has
arched windows and an extraordinary dome on top.
The structure was designed by renowned Peruvian born
architect and engineer, W.A. Sarmiento.
It is a concrete Expressionist style edifice with a gallant “crown roast” appearing to ascend up to
into the sky from the roof. Sarmiento
has designed many unique mid-century-modern buildings throughout the country
post-World War II. Some of his buildings
are around downtown Phoenix and other cities throughout the state. I plan to seek those buildings out and photograph
each one. I will share those photos in a
post.
That is wild - so cool!
ReplyDeleteI saw a news story about the buildings. Since this one was close to home, I went to Metrocenter and took pictures of it.
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