Virgin Trains USA has unveiled plans to build a fully electric, high-speed train that would connect Southern California to Las Vegas by 2023. More about Virgin Trains plans to connect Las Vegas and Southern California with electric high-speed rail
Sliding glass walls front the living area of this Los Angeles house by US firm Aaron Neubert Architects and open onto a terrace designed to make the most of the surrounding views. More about Echo House by Aaron Neubert Architects steps down slope in Los Angeles
Hotelier Ian Schrager has joined forces with British architectural designer John Pawson to create the West Hollywood Edition hotel in Los Angeles. More about West Hollywood Edition Hotel by Ian Schrager and John Pawson opens in Los Angeles
Dose-controlled cannabis brand Dosist has opened its second shop in Los Angeles, with an interior designed to reinforce its products' associations with wellness and consistency. More about Dosist opens second LA cannabis store that elevates "wellness in every detail"
For his own residence, California architect Dan Brunn has designed a long, slender home that stretches over a brook on a wooded property in Los Angeles. More about Bridge House by architect Dan Brunn straddles natural stream in Los Angeles
Los Angeles jewellery designer Sonia Boyajian has hung oversized replicas of her creations as light fixtures in the pink-toned flagship store she designed in collaboration with Studio Shamshiri. More about Studio Shamshiri designs pink-hued jewellery shop in LA for Sonia Boyajian
New York studio Weiss Manfredi has beaten competition from Dorte Mandrup and Diller Scofidio + Renfro to develop the park and museum accompanying Los Angeles' historic La Brea Tar Pits. More about Weiss Manfredi wins competition to redevelop La Brea Tar Pits
American studio Faulkner Architects has transformed a rustic building in northern California into a simple dwelling sheathed in salvaged redwood and weathering steel. More about Faulkner Architects converts barn in California's wine country into minimal bunkhouse
American firm LOHA has unveiled plans for an affordable housing complex in Los Angeles, comprising stacks of shipping containers arranged on a triangular site near a busy highway interchange. More about LOHA designs affordable housing complex for difficult site in Los Angeles
Childcare subscription app Brella has opened its first space in Los Angeles, comprising play areas, a co-working space and yoga classes. More about Two mothers open Brella to offer flexible childcare in Los Angeles
Musician Solange has sent us behind-the-scenes photos of the performance she directed at the Richard Meier-designed Getty Center in Los Angeles. In this interview she tells Dezeen why she's targeted major art museums with her music. More about Solange directs Getty Center performance to be "extension of Richard Meier's architecture"
This artist's studio, which architecture firm FAR has added to a Los Angeles house, includes a large plastic door that folds in half and a rooftop covered in blue tiles. More about FAR adds studio with corrugated plastic door to artist's Los Angeles residence
These photographs taken by Yueqi "Jazzy" Li capture the "mesmerising" dappled light inside Herzog & de Meuron's Dominus Winery. More about Herzog & de Meuron's Dominus Winery photographed 20 years after completion
Prefabricated housing company Koto has designed a cabin-like ADU, or Accessory Dwelling Unit, that can be delivered to sites in San Jose, California in two weeks. More about Koto and Abodu launch tiny prefab ADUs for San Francisco Bay Area
Gabled volumes wrapped in wood and glass form this residence in northern California, which US studio Field Architecture designed to ensure that no trees had to be removed from the site. More about Field Architecture designs Pinon Ranch to embrace pastoral setting in California
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