sentences:  He believed that an informal architecture full of whimsy and integrated with nature was indeed compatible with commercial businesses.The first building to go up, in 1925, was the Gotham Shop at 520 Ramona, built by de Lemos, who had bought the property to preserve a very old oak tree (finally removed in the 1980s).He designed the building around the venerable oak and created shops with rustic benches, ceramic tiles and stucco walls.