American studio WOJR has designed a black house with a roof shaped like half-pipes at a skate park, for a site in Silicon Valley originally earmarked for a Spanish-style residence. More
"Don't hurt the boulders" was the request from the client who asked Faulkner Architects to design this remote getaway on a rocky site in California. More
Fresh renderings of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art by Beijing studio MAD have been released to coincide with the project's groundbreaking in Los Angeles. More
Online fashion brand Everlane is continuing to expand its bricks-and-mortar offering with a new location inside a century-old building in San Francisco. More
American studio Feldman Architecture has overhauled parts of a hillside home in the town of Sausalito for a retired couple with an extensive collection of albums, books and soda bottles. More
A dome-shaped house in Palm Springs has undergone renovation work by its owner, Los Angeles-based architect Pavlina Williams, who added new windows and created open-plan interiors. More
A vivid orange stairwell and a canted glass facade are among the modifications that US studio Fougeron Architecture has made to a century-old house in San Francisco. More
Autonomous vehicles will soon be tested and deployed on public roads in California without a human driver, allowing tech giants such as Uber and Apple to test prototypes on local roads for the first time. More
Los Angeles firm Studio AR+D has built a weathering steel-clad guardhouse for a new neighbourhood in Palm Springs, with cantilevers that form a roof over a parking spot and large boulder. More
Design gallery The Future Perfect has opened another California location, this time inside a house that once belonged to Elvis Presley in Beverly Hills. More
A glowing chamber for displaying "elite footwear" sits at the centre of streetwear brand Kith's West Hollywood store, designed with long-time collaborators Snarkitecture. More
Our series profiling the mid-century marvels of Palm Springs during the city's Modernism Week concludes with the Abernathy House by American architect William F Cody, which was designed to maximise outdoor living. More
As we near the end of our series celebrating Palm Springs' mid-century architecture, coinciding with the city's Modernism Week, here's a look at the chalet-esque houses that Charles DuBois designed to stand out from their neighbours. More
Our series covering modernist architecture in Palm Springs continues with the city's municipal building, designed by Swiss architect Albert Frey to include large canopies over its entrances – one with palm trees growing through its centre. More
The seven experimental steel-framed houses that architect Donald Wexler built in Palm Springs are early examples of customisable prefab homes, and are next in our series celebrating the city's mid-century architecture for this year's Modernism Week. More
Design studio Snøhetta has expanded a Michelin-star restaurant in California's Napa Valley with a glazed annex, and renovated its kitchen and grassy courtyard. More
We're continuing our series on modernist buildings in Palm Springs with American architect John Lautner's Arthur Elrod House, which has a dome-shaped concrete roof and a half-moon swimming pool that featured in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever. More
American studio Field Architecture has created a spacious house for a wooded site near San Francisco, where preserving conditions for local flora and fauna was a guiding concern for the architects. More
Australian photographer Kate Ballis has toured Palm Springs with an infrared camera and coloured filters to produce these images, which show the muted desert city in lucid purple, pink and red tones. More
Scooped white columns resembling upturned arches provide a decorative facade for the Coachella Valley Savings & Loan bank designed by E Stewart Williams, which is next up in our series spotlighting Palm Springs' mid-century architecture during the city's Modernism Week. More