UCLA research lab unveils micro dwelling to help combat affordable housing crisis
Students and faculty members at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have designed a tiny house to help address the city's low-cost housing shortage. More
-
London could follow New York and lose its creative class, warns Rohan Silva
The flow of creative people from New York to Los Angeles is "a cautionary tale for London" according to Rohan Silva, former senior policy advisor to UK prime minister David Cameron. More
MAD designs hilltop village for Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills
Chinese architecture office MAD has unveiled designs for a residential project resembling a hilltop village for Beverly Hills in Los Angeles. More
LOHA's revamped Santa Monica bus shelters are blue discs on stilts
Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has redesigned Santa Monica's bus shelters by developing a modular kit of parts that can be used to build an assortment of round blue canopies, supported on slender poles (+ slideshow). More
The Broad gallery by Diller Scofidio + Renfro speeds towards completion in Los Angeles
News: Diller Scofidio + Renfro's new art gallery is nearing completion in downtown Los Angeles – a building that architect Elizabeth Diller says doesn't "try to compete" with Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall next door (+ slideshow). More
Ordinary Architecture stages Hollywood sign hoax in Los Angeles
Letters from the Hollywood sign appeared to have toppled from their position in the Santa Monica Mountains, as part of an installation by London studio Ordinary Architecture (+ slideshow). More
Clive Wilkinson Architects brings "quirky rawness" to Funny or Die offices
Los Angeles studio Clive Wilkinson Architects has designed the West Hollywood offices for comedy video production company Funny or Die, which double as a film studio (+ slideshow). More
"A blob, a bridge, a tower, and a subway stop"
Opinion: officials are racing to bring big architectural names like Zumthor, Gehry and Piano to Los Angeles' Museum Mile, but the lack of an overarching masterplan is leaving the street itself sad and neglected, says Mimi Zeiger. More
Bestor Architecture uses primary colours in Beats by Dre headquarters
Los Angeles studio Bestor Architecture has completed a colourful new headquarters for Beats by Dre, following Apple's $3 billion acquisition of the headphones company (+ slideshow). More
Peter Zumthor reworks LACMA proposal to bridge one of LA's busiest roads
News: Peter Zumthor has drastically modified his plans to overhaul the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, to prevent damaging the nearby tar pits that inspired his design. More
Cloverdale749 apartments by LOHA feature balconies screened by perforated metal panels
Corrugated cladding with different levels of opacity provides privacy for residents of this housing development in Los Angeles by local office Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects (LOHA) (+ slideshow). More
Frank Gehry sets the scene for LACMA's Alexander Calder exhibition
Frank Gehry has created curvy alcoves and boxy podiums for this exhibition dedicated to the work of American sculptor Alexander Calder, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) (+ slideshow). More
Glowing 3D-printed characters explore LA in Cut Copy's music video
Dezeen Music Project: a pair of miniature 3D-printed figures wander around Los Angeles in this stop-motion music video by creative studio PARTY for Australian electronic band Cut Copy's track We Are Explorers. More
Emerson College campus by Morphosis places curvy classrooms within a hollow frame
Thom Mayne's Los Angeles firm Morphosis has completed a new Hollywood campus for arts school Emerson College where a rectangular frame surrounds a curvaceous cluster of classrooms (+ slideshow). More
Ace Hotel opens latest branch in downtown Los Angeles
The Ace Hotel chain has opened its newest outpost inside a 1920s tower in downtown Los Angeles, complete with a 1600-seat theatre. More
Gehry presents new proposal for site opposite his Walt Disney Concert Hall
News: architect Frank Gehry has submitted new plans for a hotel and apartment complex to be located across the road from his Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. More
Car Park House by Anonymous Architects
A combined car park and terrace covers the roof of this hillside house in Los Angeles by Californian studio Anonymous Architects (+ slideshow). More
KPF to wrap steel ribbons around LA's Petersen Automotive Museum
News: architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has unveiled plans to surround the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles in a cloak of steel ribbons as part of major refurbishment. More
Work starts on SOM's Los Angeles Federal Courthouse
News: construction has begun on a new federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles designed by US firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM). More
Peter Zumthor unveils redesign for Los Angeles County Museum of Art
News: Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has revealed plans to raze the existing buildings of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and replace them with a new solar-powered campus. More