You can clamber down the inside walls of this ramshackle timber basin in the desert by Los Angeles designers Ball-Nogues Studio into a surprise swimming pool. More »

A recessed balcony carves a rectangular hole in the facade of a writer’s house in north Hollywood. More »

The rooms of a black and white house in California lead out to a series of stepped terraces with a view of the famous Hollywood sign. More »

Fir trusses create triangles that meet in the middle of the ceiling at a community hall in California designed by Siegel & Strain Architects. More »

Here are some new images of the Apple campus by architects Foster + Partners, to be built in Cupertino, California. More »

This medical research building at the University of California in San Francisco by Rafael Viñoly Architects projects out from a forest hillside, supported on steel truss stems that fan upwards from the ground. More »

San Francisco studio CCS Architecture have completed a house comprising two buildings in the Santa Cruz mountains of California, where the roof of one extends over the other. More »

Dan Brill Architects of the UK are among 12 international practices shortlisted to design a pedestrian footbridge for Trestles Beach, a surf spot in southern California. More »

XTEN Architecture have designed Sapphire Gallery, an extension to a house for art collectors in Los Angeles, USA. More »