IKEA releases first skateboard in SoCal-inspired collection
IKEA has launched its first skateboard, as part of a series of furniture and clothing items influenced by street culture in Southern California. More
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Butler Armsden overhauls 1970s coastal home in northern California
Updated interior finishes and a new guest house are among the modifications that US studio Butler Armsden Architects has made to a 44-year-old, wood-clad residence that overlooks the Pacific Ocean. More
Studio Gang designs curvaceous tower for LA's Chinatown
American firm Studio Gang has unveiled plans for a tower in Los Angeles with a curvy exterior evocative of a rolling wave. More
Feldman Architecture places art and yoga studios on lush California hillside
American studio Feldman Architecture has created a pair of wooden structures that are perched on a steep, forested site in the San Francisco Bay Area. More
Installations and artworks headlining Coachella 2018
While music acts like Beyoncé entertain throngs at this year's Coachella festival, visitors are also treated to large-scale sculptures and installations across the California desert site. Here are some of our favourites from the event this month. More
Whipple Russell creates modern white mansion overlooking Beverly Hills
Rectilinear forms and intersecting planes define this hilltop Californian home by Whipple Russell Architects, designed for a sports professional who wanted a home suitable for entertaining. More
The LADG envisions concrete pavilion for Coachella festival-goers
Undulating "concrete blankets" form a series of mountain-like structures in this conceptual pavilion designed by The Los Angeles Design Group for the Coachella festival. More
SCI-Arc students propose self-growing park and parasitic housing to adapt former LA prison
Dezeen promotion: students at the Southern California Institute of Architecture have suggested ways to transform a former jail in Los Angeles, including a park controlled by artificial intelligence and building models designed by 3D printers. More
Coachella offers experience with art outside the white gallery, says Phillip K Smith III
Music festivals like Coachella are changing the way people experience artworks and installations, according to American artist Phillip K Smith III. More
3D-printed tiles filled with succulents form cabin by Emerging Objects
Succulents and other small plants grow from the tiles that clad this 3D-printed shed, which was designed to offer a solution for the Bay Area's housing shortage. More
Caterpillar House by Feldman Architecture winds across central California terrain
Rammed earth and glass form the walls of this house by US studio Feldman Architecture, which was designed for a hilly property in an eco-friendly residential development near the ocean. More
Kelly Wearstler furnishes San Francisco Proper hotel with vintage European design
American designer Kelly Wearstler has used clashing patterns, colours and textures to decorate a hotel in San Francisco, alongside notable furniture pieces from various European design movements. More
Carl Hansen & Son opens loft-style showroom in San Francisco
Mid-century Scandinavian and Californian design meet in Carl Hansen & Son's new showroom in San Francisco, which the Danish furniture brand has opened to continue its US expansion. More
Apple engineer killed in Tesla car operating in driverless mode
Electric car company Tesla has confirmed that a recent fatal crash involving one of its vehicles occurred while the car was in autopilot mode. More
Modernist bank to be razed for Gehry's Sunset Strip development
Los Angeles officials have approved plans to demolish a mid-century-modern bank by architect Kurt Meyer in order to build Frank Gehry's mixed-use complex on the city's Sunset Strip. More
OMA to extend historic Jewish temple in LA with skewed pavilion
Architecture firm OMA has revealed the design of its first cultural building in California: a pavilion featuring tilted walls and patterned openings that will accompany a Jewish temple in Los Angeles. More
Christopher Hawthorne leaves LA Times to become city's chief design officer
LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne has left his post at the newspaper to advise the city council on architecture and planning decisions. More
Acne Studios creates very yellow interior for West Hollywood store
Acne Studios' recently opened "pale acid yellow" store in West Hollywood features a sculpture by artist Daniel Silver that doubles as a fitting room. More
Nicole Hollis creates blackened wood library for its San Francisco studio
Interior design studio Nicole Hollis has inserted charred black boxes for storing project materials into its new offices in San Francisco. More
Field Architecture designs gabled house overlooking California vineyard
Gabled buildings wrapped in aged wood form this vineyard home, which Field Architecture designed to make the most of its setting above Napa Valley. More