Global design firm Skidmore Owings and Merril collaborated with American artist Phillip K Smith III to create Santa Monica Linear, a mirrored glass installation that lights up at night. More
Concrete, steel and glass define the exterior of this California holiday home by US firm Faulkner Architects hidden in the trees of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. More
Construction technology company Mighty Buildings has announced plans to build 15 homes using prefabricated 3D-printed panels in Rancho Mirage, California. More
Breeze of Innovation is a viewpoint for San José, California, designed by SMAR Architecture Studio featuring rods that will sway in the wind and generate the power to light themselves. More
Designer Adi Goodrich has created the interiors for Wine and Eggs, a neighbourhood grocery in Los Angeles' Atwater Village, with custom-made furniture and details that nod to Parisian cafes and Italian tobacconists. More
American interior designer Kelly Wearstler has designed a virtual garage in the desert that she imagines housing basketball player LeBron James' electric Hummer. More
New York architecture studio SO-IL has created Pebble House, a flower-shaped prefabricated house, for the Los Angeles Accessory Dwelling Units scheme. More
Italian architect Renzo Piano has completed the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, adding a concrete and glass sphere to a 1930s building. More
A group of geometric concrete blocks that mimic rock pools have been installed at San Diego Bay in California by eco-engineering company Econcrete to prevent flooding while providing habitats for marine life. More
Landscape architect Fletcher Studio has created a memorial forest in California as an alternative to standard cemeteries with an entrance pavilion designed in collaboration with OpenScope Studio. More
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry has revealed his ideas for updating the masterplan for the Los Angeles River, which include platform parks on stilts bridging the waterway. More
Architect Gerhard Heusch has completed a subterranean extension for his own 15-year-old home that sits atop pilotis over a hillside in California. More
Curved seating, shelving and mirrors feature throughout Goodbody hair salon in Oakland, California, which design studio Homework has finished with salmon-pink accents. More
London designer James Whitaker's starburst-shaped shipping container house for Joshua Tree, California, has gone on sale for $3.5 million before construction has even started. More
These photographs by architect Alessandra Cianchetta capture the construction of the tilted and patterned walls of the extension OMA has designed for a Jewish temple in Los Angeles, California. More
Vibrant green walls surround a chunky rammed-earth counter in this garden-themed pop-up shop in LA that creatives Alex Reed and Dutra Brown have designed for lifestyle brand Flamingo Estate. More
Luxury fashion label Dries Van Noten has opened its first US store in Los Angeles, which boasts interiors filled with artworks from creatives across the globe. More
The Los Angeles Design Group added three structures to a mid-century home in Los Angeles' Highland Park to create a guest house, studio and exhibition spaces for two visual artists. More
This house at the bottom of Lookout Mountain volcano in Truckee, California has glass walls chosen by local studio Faulkner Architects to tint the interiors "the colour of cooling magma". More
London-based Heatherwick Studio has designed an elevated work campus and park bolstered against rising sea levels caused by climate change to replace deteriorating historic piers in San Francisco. More
