A display system made of stacked and suspended wooden boxes forms a signature feature in this new Blue Bottle Coffee cafe, which occupies part of a 1920s brick building in downtown San Francisco. More about Bohlin Cywinski Jackson creates Blue Bottle Coffee cafe within historic San Francisco building
In celebration of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's 150th birthday this week, we're looking back at five of his most pioneering projects. Next up is the Hollyhock House, which was influenced by the style of seventh-century Mayan temples. More about Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House is an early example of Mayan Revival architecture
Skateboards, Snapchat Spectacles, an early Gay Pride flag and a self-driving car sit side by side in a new Design Museum exhibition that explores how California has become the new centre of the design industry. More about "Designed in California" is the new "made in Italy" according to Design Museum exhibition
American firm Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has completed a multifamily apartment building with a sculptural interior courtyard and a monochrome facade. More about LOHA creates housing block with curvilinear courtyard in LA's Koreatown
California architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has designed a low-cost housing development in Los Angeles to accommodate displaced service members. More about Brooks + Scarpa completes The Six housing for LA's homeless and disabled veterans
Los Angeles-based Studio William Hefner has built a local home that features abundant clerestory windows and an overhanging upper floor that shades terraces below. More about Glazing in jagged roof brightens Los Angeles home by Studio William Hefner
Studio PCH and Montalba Architects have converted a 1950s beachfront hotel into Nobu's Ryokan Malibu – the first in a line of high-end, Japanese-inspired retreats. More about Nobu opens Japanese-influenced oceanside hotel in Malibu
A+Awards: California firm FOG Studio worked with the residents of East Palo Alto to design this bayside community centre and exhibition space, another winner at the 2016 Architizer A+Awards. More about FOG Studio's Cooley Landing centre provides facilities for Bay Area wetland reserve
A conceptual scheme by a team of South Korean designers calls for inserting towers within the hollowed-out trunks of giant sequoias in the western US. More about Skyscraper competition proposal involves erecting towers within world's largest trees
California-based Studio Bergtraun has completed a holiday home in Tahoe, nestling a simple black volume clad in corrugated metal into the steep landscape. More about Studio Bergtraun perches black cabin on steep slope in the Sierra Nevada mountains
San Francisco firm Arcanum Architecture has organised the massing of this large home around trees overhanging a broad lawn. More about Northern California home by Arcanum Architecture sprawls along verdant lot
A technology-driven home-building company in California says it is "doing for homes what Tesla is doing for the car". More about Cover uses computer algorithms to design prefabricated dwellings
As Apple gears up to open its Foster + Partners-designed campus in Cupertino, a drone has filmed the buildings nearing completion, and reports have emerged that the company is buying up all the trees available in California. More about Drone footage captures Apple Park as it prepares to welcome employees
Tech giant Apple has joined the list of companies approved to test driverless vehicles on California's roads. More about Apple secures license to test self-driving cars in California
Peter Zumthor has released new images of his proposals for Los Angeles County Museum of Art revealing that, in contrast to his early designs, the Swiss architect has opted for light tones for the building's exterior. More about Peter Zumthor ditches the black for his LACMA expansion plans
This house in San Francisco by local firm IwamotoScott has an angular facade made up of wooden elements, and a layout organised around a central staircase illuminated by a light well. More about IwamotoScott organises San Francisco home around light-filled stairwell
Los Angeles architecture studio CHA:COL has renovated an apartment for a writer, which features bespoke millwork and decor based on popular mobile video game Monument Valley. More about Custom furniture follows lines of geometric graffiti in live-work loft by CHA:COL
A glimpse at the future of LA shows a growing number of skyscrapers that will spread southwest from the Downtown cluster. More about Visualisation reveals how the Los Angeles skyline might look in 2030
San Francisco architecture firm Spiegel Aihara Workshop has extended a 1930s hillside residence by duplicating its layout and stacking it over the original structure, raising the home so it looks over the city's landmarks. More about SAW inserts variation of an old San Francisco home into its roof
The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles has acquired an archive of work by architect Frank Gehry that spans his first 30 years in practice. More about Frank Gehry's early drawings and sketches acquired by LA's Getty Research Institute