Posts Tagged ‘sunbelt’

Dingbats!

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Blueboy Dingbat

Thanks to Jonathan, a commenter on a previous post, I now know what a Dingbat is – an architectural style from the US sunbelt. The buildings are named for the “dingbats” or decorative elements on the facade that resemble typographic dingbats. All these photos are from Wikimedia Commons. Maybe these are so appealing mainly because they don’t exist here in our rainy climate, but they’re great. I’d live in one.

Dingbat_samoPerdy

Dingbat Apartment Building Downtown San Jose