Three black boxes stacked on a steep lot in Los Angeles form this residence by Aaron Neubert Architects, and create outdoor living spaces without needing to use any additional land. More about Stacked volumes form Los Angeles hilltop home by Aaron Neubert Architects
Blue and red threads form a colourful canopy above the workspaces of a multidisciplinary design team in Oakland, California, overhauled by architecture practice Medium Plenty. More about Colourful strings weave through renovated offices of Californian design agency
The visitor centre designed by Foster + Partners as part of Apple's new California headquarters has welcomed its first guests. More about Foster + Partners' Apple Park Visitor Center opens to the public
American design firm Studio O+A has created an office in San Francisco that communicates "new ways of thinking and working" for a major financial services company. More about Studio O+A teams traditional and contemporary elements for San Francisco finance office
Minimal fashion brand The Arrivals has opened pop-up stores in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, where designers Bower and Lotte Van Velzen have used metallic and russet surfaces to match the colour palette of this season's collection. More about The Arrivals opens "alien" fashion retail spaces in three US cities
Red and grey tones run through the rammed earth walls that US firm Feldman Architecture has used to build this retreat on a farm in California's Central Valley. More about Stripy rammed-earth walls curve through holiday home on Californian walnut farm
Mexican architecture studio Productora has attached a two-storey steel unit onto the back of a bungalow in California to add more living space. More about Productora adds steel-frame extension to pink bungalow in Los Angeles
The work of late gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk will be celebrated in San Francisco's famous Castro District with a large set of ramping steps, designed by US architecture firm Perkins Eastman. More about Gay rights activist Harvey Milk to receive stepped memorial in San Francisco's Castro
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has produced an updated image set for his expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which recently received a major financial donation. More about Peter Zumthor releases latest LACMA renderings after 0 million funding boost
For a site just outside of San Francisco, American studio Faulkner Architects has created a family residence clad in Corten steel panels and shaded by large oak trees. More about Faulkner Architects wraps Northern California home in weathering steel
Advertising agency 72andsunny has designed a logo and campaign for an initiative highlighting creative entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, with a long space in between the letters L and A that users can customise. More about 72andsunny's logo for LA celebrates the city's growing creative community
Portions of eight proposed designs for the wall that President Donald Trump wants to construct along the US-Mexico border are to be tested over the coming months. More about Trump wall prototypes pop up near US-Mexico border
The Pacific Standard Time exhibitions in Los Angeles show that arts and culture from south of the border have shaped an architectural identity for the region that is much more interesting than what's found in the Northeast US, says Aaron Betsky. More about "The architecture of the Americas is not white"
Design-build firm Cover, which uses computer algorithms to create customised backyard dwellings for homes, has completed its first project: a small studio in Los Angeles. More about Cover designs backyard studio in LA using computer algorithms
The latest mid-century motor lodge given a new lease of life as a boutique hotel is this property in California, which has been refreshed with a colour palette reminiscent of its former heyday. More about AvroKO's interiors for Calistoga Motor Lodge and Spa look like "a fictitious Wes Anderson film"
Glazed garage doors surround this wood-clad residence by US firm Feldman Architecture in California's Sonoma Valley, an area that was recently devastated by wild fires. More about Feldman Architecture incorporates garage-door windows into California home
The 1920s bungalows and 1950s modernist buildings found across Los Angeles influenced locally based Martin Fenlon Architecture when designing this house for one of the city's conservation areas. More about Martin Fenlon merges architectural styles for house in Los Angeles
Large windows provide framed views of Los Angeles from this hilltop house, which German art director Tino Schaedler has designed for his family. More about Tino Schaedler takes cues from movie sets for his LA family home
For a 1950s home in Los Angeles' elite Bel Air neighbourhood, architect Andrea Lenardin Madden has added an angular volume with floor-to-ceiling glass that extends over the landscape. More about Andrea Lenardin Madden adds cantilevering extension to midcentury LA residence
Home rental website Airbnb has taken cues from its listings around the world when designing additional office spaces at its headquarters in San Francisco. More about Airbnb uses current listings to theme interiors of expanded San Francisco headquarters