Controversial plans to transform over 50,000 acres of farmland into a city in Solano county, northern California, have been unveiled by a group of investors named Flannery Associates. More
Stucco and asphalt are found on the exterior of a 1920s bungalow that has been revamped by local firm The LADG, which sought to challenge traditional views of the housing typology. More
Architecture and engineering firm Yu2e has completed The Axolotl, a three-storey apartment building near public transit that is meant to be an "evolutionary hybrid of Los Angeles middle housing". More
Mint green materials cover this store for skincare brand Aesop, which Toronto studio Odami designed for the Palisades area of Los Angeles. More
Local studio Montalba Architects has created a lush Japanese-inspired garden patio for diners at a Nobu hotel and restaurant in Silicon Valley. More
California's Tyreus Design Studio has completed a timber-clad house and entertainment barn renovation on a farm in Sonoma. More
A slender pool lined with a "vertical garden" features in an oceanfront house in southern California designed by US studio Montalba Architects. More
Local design firm Prowl Studio and investment company Baukunst have shown a variety of sustainable materials including aquatic plants meant for animal feed and an electric RV at a pop-up exhibition in San Francisco. More
The state of California has recently adopted changes to its building code that will limit embodied carbon emissions in commercial and school buildings. More
Architecture firm And And And Studio has created a stucco-clad, single-level home for a family of six that is raised up to create a "treehouse-like effect". More
Interior designer Kelly Wearstler paired clay plaster walls with Moroccan cement tiles at this eclectic cocktail bar in the Downtown LA Proper hotel. More
Architects John Friedman and Alice Kimm have stacked a concrete mass with sinuous cutouts into a hillside as a home for their family in Los Angeles, complete with a crane in the kitchen and an accessory dwelling unit. More
Local studio Anonymous Architects has completed a residence with a concrete plinth that cantilevers off a mountainside in Los Angeles. More
Architect Joanne Koch has refurbished a 1970s wood cabin located in the iconic Sea Ranch development in California into an Airbnb destination in the forest. More
US architecture studio Lever Architecture and a team of researchers have successfully tested the earthquake-resistant capabilities of a 10-storey, mass-timber building in California. More
Oakland-based landscape office Hood Design Studio has created two "treehouses" covered by an expansive photovoltaic trellis on the campus of a software company in Silicon Valley. More
American firm Gensler and an in-house team at the Swiss company EF Education First have updated a historic school campus in Pasadena by renovating buildings and adding new dormitories with roofs that allude to a nearby mountain range. More
US architecture studio West of West has won an AIA competition to reimagine the future of San Francisco housing in response to the city's housing crisis. More
Design studio Fettle has restored an art deco hotel in Santa Monica, California, refreshing its distinctive turquoise facade and using the original style to inform the interiors. More
Designers including Bethan Laura Wood and Maarten Baas have contributed a range of "sometimes jarring" chairs and lighting to an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. More