The husband-and-wife founders of California studio SPF Architects have renovated their octagonal house in the Santa Monica Mountains and added elements to protect it against wildfire. More about SPF Architects wraps Los Angeles house in asphalt shingles for fire protection
A system of curtains divides areas filled with collectible furniture within this compact office, which LA-based Public Art Company has designed for its own team. More about Public Art Company gives its LA studio a "muppets on acid" interior
American design platform Unfold Projects has renovated a modernist home in Encinitas, California, that will serve as a base for an artist residency program. More about Unfold Projects returns mid-century California residence to a "light-filled, organic oasis"
California designers A Teatro and Balcony Studio have completed a slender, vertical house in Los Angeles with facades made of striated plaster and interior rooms that "unfold like galleries in a museum". More about A Teatro and Balcony Studio tuck Museum Tower House into steep site in Los Angeles
US studio Charlap Hyman & Herrero has built in rows of metal workstations to create a futuristic yet comfortable work environment for an aerospace manufacturer's office in California. More about Charlap Hyman & Herrero adds custom workstations to futuristic LA office
Ahead of the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago next week, we take a look at 13 of the completed presidential libraries in the US. More about The architecture of 13 presidential libraries from Hoover to Bush
Brooklyn studio GRT Architects has completed a second location for maximalist restaurant Bad Roman, creating an "evolution" of the New York original in Beverly Hills. More about "Exuberant" tiled facade fronts Bad Roman Beverly Hills by GRT Architects
US architecture studios Gehry Partners, WHY Architecture and landscape studio Olin have been announced as the project leads for renovations to the visitor sequence at the Getty Center in California, USA. More about Gehry Partners, WHY Architecture and Olin to revamp Getty Center tram station in Los Angeles
The Miller Hull Partnership has completed a renovation of a library at a university in San Luis Obispo, California, working to restore the original design intent of the brutalist building. More about Miller Hull renovates brutalist university library in California
American studio ZGF Architects has revealed designs for an angular Navy SEAL Museum on the harbourfront of San Diego, USA, meant to evoke the site and contemporary martial qualities. More about ZGF Architects designs stealth-informed Navy SEAL Museum for San Diego
US studio Faulkner Architects has clad a low-profile mountain house in corrugated Corten steel for wildfire resilience in Northern California. More about Faulkner Architects designs California house around fire and water
A limestone wall runs along the front facade of a tasting room for Auteur Wines in Sonoma County, which was designed by US architecture studio Bohlin Cywinski Jackson to prioritise a casual atmosphere and a "connection to place". More about Bohlin Cywinski Jackson creates relaxed tasting room in California's wine country
Silicon Valley startup 1X Technologies will start shipping its Neo humanoid robots into people's homes this year. Dezeen's Ellen Eberhardt was given an exclusive look behind the scenes where designers are turning the stuff of science fiction into reality. More about Inside the company building America's first mail-order servant robot
Walnut millwork, modernist furnishings and a red travertine bar give this Los Angeles restaurant by local design studio 22RE a "distinctly Milanese sensibility". More about 22RE "channels Italian dining culture" at Bar di Bello in Los Angeles
Architecture studio Woods Bagot has utilised an off-site production method for "accelerated construction" in its creation of a satellite concourse at Los Angeles International Airport. More about Woods Bagot adds modular terminal with aluminium fins to LAX
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features an inflated installation by Sabine Marcelis at this year's Coachella. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features Sabine Marcelis's installation at Coachella 2026
Art has been added to The David Geffen Galleries at LACMA in Los Angeles, USA, with colourful works enlivening the massive concrete structure designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. More about Art installations bring colour to Peter Zumthor's austere LACMA addition
American architecture studio ZGF's building in Los Angeles is complete with a full-size space shuttle "in launch position" wrapped in a stainless steel cylinder. More about ZGF wraps space shuttle in stainless-steel tower for California Science Center
Laws and regulations around accessory dwelling units are opening up opportunities for infill around the US to mitigate the housing crisis and more. Here, we round up 10 from California to Kansas to showcase the forms they can take. More about Ten American ADUs that showcase their urban versatility
Designer Sabine Marcelis is headlining this year's Coachella Art program with an inflated maze, alongside a pleated-orb installation by architect Kyriakos Chatziparaskevas and a brutalist tower by The Los Angeles Design Group. More about Sabine Marcelis installs Maze with "coloured walls of shade" at Coachella 2026