On the same street as the theater is this 1893 structure, built by mining millionaire Lewis Bradbury, where characters George Valentin (fading star) and Peppy Miller (rising talent) pass each other on the ornate staircase, with Peppy stopping to blow him a kiss.
Comprised of a surface pattern of triangles-like those in the main theater, but made in this case out of 1, 067 thin aluminum panels, mounted on the support structure with open joints-the light-blue facade looks razor-sharp but creates the impression of a super-light floating skin dematerialized against the sky: another visual reference in the architecture to the infinite thinness of the moving image.