This house in California's Silicon Valley, designed by local studios Pacific Peninsula Architecture and Leverone Design, is built with blocks of Texas split-cut limestone. More about Chunky limestone walls feature in California residence Atherton Contemporary
San Francisco firms Síol Studios and Levy Art and Architecture have updated this house in the city's Noe Valley neighbourhood with a gridded glass extension and two rooftop decks. More about Black gridded windows form Valley Street house extension in San Francisco
Arched doorways, altar-like tables and a nave-style display area feature in this Los Angeles showroom that McLaren Excell has designed for bathroom brand The Splash Lab. More about McLaren Excell channels church interiors for The Splash Lab's LA showroom
Hues of soft pink and bold grey are coupled with tiled surfaces in this California facial studio designed by Los Angeles firm Proem Studio. More about Proem Studio uses muted shades to design Cheeks & Co facial spa
Designer Tomas Osinsk and Los Angeles film producer Chris Hanley have created a mirrored house near Joshua Tree National Park, designed to look like a New York skyscraper on its side. More about Mirror-clad Invisible House reflects its desert surrounds
American firm Feldman Architecture has inserted a glass pavilion between two white stucco volumes to form this residence in San Jose, California. More about The Pavilion by Feldman Architecture has glass walls designed to "disappear" into California hillside
Grimshaw has revealed the design for an arts complex on the Santa Monica College campus that will comprise three volumes linked by open-air plazas. More about Grimshaw unveils arts complex for Santa Monica College
Oklahoma artist Rachel Hayes stitched together colourful fabrics to create abstract representations of natural landscapes that hang in a Los Angeles gallery. More about Land Lines installation reimagines landscapes in hanging fabrics
A photographer and his family live in this boxy house clad in cedar that design-build practice Ras-A Studio has designed near the ocean in Los Angeles County. More about Ras-A Studio builds Walk-Street House near the beach in California
San Francisco's Blue Truck Studio clad the exterior of this holiday house in Manhattan Beach, California with cedar siding to tone down its unusual geometries. More about Slim wooden slats cover "wild geometry" of renovated Californian house
American architect Marc Thorpe has designed this Hollywood Hills residence for an art collector to draw on the modernist Case Study Houses. More about Marc Thorpe designs Case Study 2020 house for Los Angeles
Californian firm Ryan Leidner Architecture has used bright white paint and lush greenery to refresh a mid-century modern Eichler home in Silicon Valley that was completed in the 1960s. More about White Twin Gable House by Ryan Leidner Architecture is a remodeled Eichler
American firm Malcolm Davis Architecture has placed skylights over existing wood framing to streak the interiors of this San Francisco house with beams of light. More about Woodwork and skylights stream light into Noe Valley Residence in San Francisco
With the demolition of Los Angeles County Museum of Art underway for Peter Zumthor's redesign, Mimi Zeiger is concerned about what will be left for the city and its residents following coronavirus lockdown. More about "The cruelness of demolishing LACMA when Angelenos are unable to bear witness should not be ignored"
This exclusive photography by Monica Nouwens captures the razing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as part of controversial plans to redevelop the site with a Peter Zumthor-designed building. More about Photography reveals LACMA demolition during coronavirus pandemic
A renovated home in San Francisco features a pared-down colour scheme with places to eat, mingle and relax, designed by Los Angeles studio JDP Interiors. More about JDP Interiors renovates San Francisco home for couple that loves to entertain
California architect Juan Saez Pedraja has added a studio fronted with aluminium panels and cedar shades to the backyard of a remodelled Santa Monica residence. More about Saez Pedraja adds small studio to a fashion designer's Santa Monica residence
These five houses in San Francisco are traditional in the front and have contemporary extensions in the back. More about Five San Francisco house extensions designed to contrast the original architecture
San Francisco studio John Lum Architecture has contrasted the look of this cottage-style house in the city with a steel-and-glass extension at the back. More about John Lum Architecture reimagines charming San Francisco home with modern extension
Stained glass windows feature alongside contemporary furniture in this multipurpose space in Los Angeles designed by Francesca de la Fuente and Working Holiday Studio. More about Los Angeles church transformed into The Ruby Street co-working and event space