World view: The Palm Springs Visitor Center, California
The Palm Springs Visitor Center is a prime example of 'desert modernism', the theme of the new
Architecture and Design Center in the Californian city that has the world's largest concentration of mid-century modern buildings per capita. The new museum, an offshoot of the Palm Springs Art Museum, is in a building originally designed as a bank by E Stewart Williams in 1961
![The Palm Springs Visitor Centre](http://web.archive.org./web/20160903033811im_/https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/11/27/1417107891293/The-Palm-Springs-Visitor--010.jpg?w=300&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=af4d32d8a0bd51ed58bf401705cb8819)