San Francisco studio Herman Coliver Locus Architecture has completed a synagogue in San Rafael, California, with a second-floor sanctuary space that frames views of the surrounding hills. More about Herman Coliver Locus Architecture focuses California synagogue on mountain views
Here's a closer look inside the newly opened Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, where design studio Rockwell Group has outfitted a restaurant and bar that "responds to the museum's distinctive biomorphic architecture". More about Rockwell Group eschews 90-degree angles for Skywalker Grill at Lucas Museum
Two accessory dwelling units are contained within a double-level, arched metal building, which was created by design-build studo Qastic. More about Qastic creates stacked ADUs for "alternative approach to small-scale housing" in Los Angeles
Architecture studios MAD and Stantec have placed more than 1,200 curved panels on the "dream-like" Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, which is set to open later this month. More about MAD's spaceship-like Lucas Museum revealed ahead of opening
US celebrity Gwyneth Paltrow has collaborated with Texas-based studio Michael Hsu Office of Architecture on the first sit-down restaurant for wellness company Goop, giving visitors "a new way to experience the brand". More about Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Hsu create first Goop restaurant
US studio Lehrer Architects has completed Loma Verde, a supportive housing development for once-homeless residents that features a slender footprint and stucco walls adorned with splashes of colour. More about Lehrer Architects designs supportive housing for "extremely narrow" site in Los Angeles
US studio IA has combined Craftsman-style detailing and a minimalist technical look with the details of a historic building for AI company Notion in San Francisco, California. More about IA creates Craftsman-style office for AI company Notion in San Francisco
Local design-build studio Allprace aimed to create a feeling of "warmth and permanence" in a house called Hargis, which features gabled roof forms and earthy materials such as wood and stone. More about Peaked volumes top Los Angeles house by Allprace
The New York office of OMA and local practice YA Studio have arranged a 160-home apartment block in San Francisco, California, around multiple courtyards. More about OMA completes first US affordable housing development in San Francisco
Los Angeles studio Ome Dezin has partnered with design platform Lumens to renovate and furnish a 1990s home in the Hollywood Hills, adding iconic furniture and lighting from Frank Gehry, Ingo Maurer and more. More about Ome Dezin and Lumens outfit renovated Los Angeles residence
Texas architecture studio Clayton Korte has completed a Corten steel-clad structure for storing vineyard equipment at a winery on the Central Coast of California. More about Clayton Korte creates weathering-steel barn for California winery
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