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 about Renzo Piano completes Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles
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 about Man-made rock pools at San Diego Bay waterfront double as coastal defences
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 about Fletcher Studio embeds cemetery alternative into Californian forest
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 about Frank Gehry teases plans to build raised parks over the Los Angeles River
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 about Heusch adds underground concrete office to Beverly Hills house
Curved seating, shelving and mirrors feature throughout Goodbody hair salon in Oakland, California, which design studio Homework has finished with salmon-pink accents. More about Homework creates curves inside GoodBody hair salon in Oakland
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 about Unbuilt shipping container house for Joshua Tree on sale for .5 million
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 about Photographs capture OMA's Jewish temple extension taking shape in LA
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 about Rammed-earth counter anchors Flamingo Estate pop-up in Los Angeles
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 about Fashion meets art inside Dries Van Noten's inaugural US store
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 about The LADG designs studio and residence for a painter and a photographer
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 about Tinted glass bathes Lookout House by Faulkner Architects in red glow
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 about Heatherwick Studio designs flood-resilient park The Cove for San Francisco
The latest edition of our Dezeen Weekly newsletter features the interiors of lifestyle and wellness brand Goop's headquarters in Santa Monica. More about The headquarters of Gwyneth Paltrow's brand Goop features in today's Dezeen Weekly newsletter
Design agency Rapt Studio has used curved furnishings and soft colours to create a calming ambience inside the Santa Monica headquarters of lifestyle and wellness brand Goop. More about Rapt Studio fashions soothing interiors for Goop HQ in Santa Monica
Sliding mesh walls are designed to open up the compartments of this greenhouse for cactuses and large plants, which architecture studio Part Office has added to an industrial-style office building in Santa Monica. More about Tinted polycarbonate blurs cactus inside Santa Monica Greenhouse by Part Office
Vancouver studio Peter Cardew has designed this store in Los Angeles for an athletic wear clothing company to allude to the aesthetic of a gym. More about Clothing racks move along wheeled tracks in Los Angeles athletic store Reigning Champ
Los Angeles design firm Working Holiday Studio has transformed a property in the California desert into a shoppable holiday home that "stands out" against its desolate landscape. More about White stucco Casa Mami by Working Holiday Studio contrasts California desert landscape
Chinese firm MAD has completed the Gardenhouse residential building in Beverly Hills, which includes a large green wall and is designed to look like a village on top of a hill. More about MAD wraps Beverly Hills residences Gardenhouse with America's "largest living wall"
A pale green lacquer table and dried plants are among the references to Greek architecture and "Californian freshness" in this spa in San Francisco designed by Jacqueline Sullivan. More about Greek islands inform design for Monastery Studio facial spa