Google's vice president of hardware design Ivy Ross has created an office building for her Silicon Valley team that is arranged around an atrium, skylight and staircase. More about Ivy Ross creates Google Design Lab at company's Silicon Valley headquarters
The pods that Spanish practice SelgasCano has built to form garden studios in Second Home's first US campus resemble a group of huge yellow lily pads from above. More about Second Home Hollywood by SelgasCano adds 6,500 plants to former Los Angeles car park
The founders of American studio Turkel Design have used prefabricated components to create a home for themselves in southern California that will also serve as a "lab" for testing ideas and materials. More about Turkel Design uses prefab elements to construct Axiom Desert House in Palm Springs
A canyon-like tower by MVRDV and a twisting structure by Studio Gang are among the buildings to be revealed for a new San Francisco development. More about MVRDV, Studio Gang and Henning Larsen unveil towers for San Francisco's Mission Rock development
Los Angeles university SCI-Arc has granted Frank Gehry an honorary masters degree in recognition of his "unparalleled" impact on architecture. More about SCI-Arc awards Frank Gehry honorary masters degree in architecture
Northern California's coastal landscape and foggy weather influenced the design of the latest office by Canopy, a co-working company founded by designers Yves Behar and Amir Mortazavi, and entrepreneur Steve Mohebi. More about Yves Behar opens third Canopy co-working location in historic San Francisco building
San Francisco's Carpenters Workshop Gallery is staging an exhibition of works by French-Swedish artist Ingrid Donat that includes furniture detailed with interlacing loops and lines influenced by tribal patterns and 1920s Art Deco. More about Carpenters Workshop Gallery exhibit celebrates 30 years of work by Ingrid Donat
Soho House has turned a former warehouse in Downtown Los Angeles into a new spot for its members, featuring a rooftop pool, hotel rooms and garden. More about Soho House opens second Los Angeles outpost in Downtown warehouse
Sea urchins, mussels and crabs are among the marine creatures that are expected to take up residence in a floating structure in the San Francisco Bay that was created by a multidisciplinary team at the California College of the Arts. More about Float Lab designed to serve as "new kind of architecture for climate adaptation"
Los Angeles' Studio Sucio used a "mish-mash" of styles for the apartments it has created inside a 1960s Holiday Inn in Downtown Los Angeles. More about Modernist Holiday Inn becomes Los Angeles apartment complex
This installation at California's Donum Estate by American artist Doug Aitken arranges a series of hanging wind chimes. More about Sonic Mountain by Doug Aitken is formed from 365 wind chimes
Birch plywood and linoleum are among the cost-effective materials used by design-build firm Sheet/RockLA to update a collection of rustic cabins on a forested site in the San Bernardino Mountains. More about Sheet/RockLA renovates cluster of historic cabins in California mountain town
Kanye West's domed low-cost housing prototypes have been demolished on his property in Calabasas, California, following reports that the musician failed to secure a building permit. More about Kanye West's dome-shaped housing prototypes are demolished
California firm Síol Studios has maintained the historical character of a 1920s dwelling while adding contemporary elements, including an eclectic array of furnishings and artwork. More about Spanish Colonial house in Los Angeles receives major update by Síol Studios
Rooms are organised around gardens and courtyards in this northern California dwelling, which Feldman Architecture has lifted above the ground in order to protect tree roots. More about Feldman Architecture integrates The Sanctuary house into lush Silicon Valley site
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has installed five reflective spheres at a plaza adjoining a San Francisco waterfront sports arena. More about Olafur Eliasson's silver orbs create tunnel effect on San Francisco's waterfront
Rotated wings connected by a central volume make up this hilltop mansion by Los Angeles studio Walker Workshop, which features a cinema, an infinity pool and a spacious "party deck". More about Carla House by Walker Workshop stretches across ridge in Beverly Hills
An abstracted Lamborghini, a scrunched-up bike and a motorcycle operated by a smartphone are among the pieces showcased in an exhibition at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. More about Designs by Rem D Koolhaas and Joey Ruiter feature in Disruptors exhibition at LA museum
A $100 million alteration designed to prop up the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower in San Francisco has been approved as tenants reach a tentative settlement with its developers. More about 0 million repairs approved for San Francisco's sinking Millennium Tower
Architecture firms Dorte Mandrup, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Weiss Manfredi have revealed their competition proposals to redevelop the park and museum accompanying Los Angeles' historic La Brea Tar Pits. More about Dorte Mandrup, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Weiss Manfredi compete to masterplan LA's La Brea Tar Pits