We've highlighted 10 independent furniture designers in Los Angeles, USA, as part of our North American Design 2024 series, which showcases inventive and creative design in cities across the continent. More about Ten scene-setting independent design studios in Los Angeles
Following an increase in land movement surrounding Lloyd Wright's Wayfarers Chapel outside of Los Angeles, the organisation has announced it will disassemble the landmark for preservation. More about Lloyd Wright chapel to be disassembled following ongoing California landslide
Philadelphia-based artist Nick Missel exhibited a series of sculptural seats informed by scrap materials and working class survivalism at Design Miami's 2024 Los Angeles edition. More about Nick Missel explores "cultural archeology" with silicone furniture at Design Miami.LA
Japanese sound artist and designer Yuri Suzuki has created Arborhythm, an outdoor art installation capturing the sights and sounds of San Francisco, California. More about Yuri Suzuki combines sculpture and sound with "trumpet-like" San Francisco art installation
LA-based design studio Do Lab has created a series of fabric "mushrooms" to cover the audience and performers for one of the stages at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. More about Do Lab creates sprawling fabric "mushrooms" for Coachella stage
Unprotected modernist houses are at risk of demolition as land often holds greater value than architectural heritage, says conservation group Docomomo US in response to actor Chris Pratt tearing down a home by architect Craig Ellwood. More about Chris Pratt's destruction of Ellwood house in LA symptom of "systemic problems"
A large tree lies at the heart of a cedar-clad residence in southern California designed by US studio Brett Farrow Architect, which used various tactics to "meld nature into the home's ethos". More about Brett Farrow designs San Dieguito House to embrace setting in coastal California
Soaring, spikey plywood towers and a colourful, kinetic "settlement" by artist Morag Myerscough are among the large-scale installations at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in California. More about Three large-scale and "deeply interactive" installations at Coachella 2024
New York design studio Post Company has revived a historic hotel in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, drawing on the building's illustrious past and recent acclaim to inform its interiors. More about Post Company restores hotel known as birthplace of Apple's Macintosh computer
New York studio Leong Leong has renovated a 1970s ranch house in Los Angeles by adding a large wall, outdoor spaces and a polycarbonate panel-wrapped second storey. More about Leong Leong transforms 1970s Los Angeles ranch house into "suburban sanctuary"
US studio Michael Hennessey Architecture has revitalised an ageing suburban house near San Francisco, adding black cladding and bright finishes to form a family home that bridges the past, present and future. More about Michael Hennessey Architecture clads renovated California house with black cedar and metal
A "decentralized" group of designers are launching a furniture design-focused festival that will take place in the neighbourhoods of eastern Los Angeles. More about Local designers launch Los Angeles Design Weekend
Providing homes for people with disabilities and formerly houseless LGBTQ+ youth, our next Social Housing Revival case study set out to prove that low-cost housing in the US can look as good as upscale apartments. More about La Brea Affordable Housing in West Hollywood is a contemporary take on art deco
New York-based studio Apparatus has redesigned its Hollywood showroom with multiple material schemas and a range of its lighting and furniture products to evoke a feeling of "discovery" for visitors. More about Apparatus updates Los Angeles showroom to include a "modernist grotto"
New York-based Crosby Studios has piled office equipment around a long metallic table as part of a pop-up installation for fashion brand The Frankie Shop in Los Angeles. More about Crosby Studios creates office-themed installation in LA for The Frankie Shop
The Palm Springs Art Museum has unveiled the reconstructed Aluminaire House in California, a modernist house originally designed in the 1930s by architect Albert Frey and editor A Lawrence Kocher. More about Albert Frey's all-metal 1930s Aluminaire House reassembled in Palm Springs
Public housing is an essential part of the solution to the housing crisis in the US, California politician Alex Lee tells Dezeen in this interview conducted as part of our Social Housing Revival series. More about Social housing is America's "missing tool" to solve housing crisis says Alex Lee
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a black-clad, "modernist" skyscraper completed in downtown Los Angeles by architecture studio Marmol Radziner. More about "Skyscrapers are irrelevant to architecture" says commenter
Local firm Studio VARA has completed Fire Country Lookout, a rural retreat in northern California that is wrapped in a protective shell made of standing-seam metal and is equipped to operate off the grid. More about Studio VARA designs Sonoma County house to stand up to wildfires
American studio Preen Inc has updated a fast-food restaurant in Los Angeles to harken back to Southern California's roadside diners of the 1960s, when the establishment was originally founded. More about LA chicken restaurant by Preen Inc "glows from within"