Local design-build studio Allprace aimed to create a feeling of "warmth and permanence" in a house called Hargis, which features gabled roof forms and earthy materials such as wood and stone. More about Peaked volumes top Los Angeles house by Allprace
Los Angeles studio Ome Dezin has partnered with design platform Lumens to renovate and furnish a 1990s home in the Hollywood Hills, adding iconic furniture and lighting from Frank Gehry, Ingo Maurer and more. More about Ome Dezin and Lumens outfit renovated Los Angeles residence
American design platform Unfold Projects has renovated a modernist home in Encinitas, California, that will serve as a base for an artist residency program. More about Unfold Projects returns mid-century California residence to a "light-filled, organic oasis"
American studio SPF Architects has included an aluminium skin and an upper volume that "appears to float" over the ground level at completed the Bronze and Black House in California. More about SPF Architects clads cantilevered Beverly Hills house in black and bronze panels
A space for practicing traditional Chinese medicine features in this renovated 1960s home in Pasadena, California, transformed by Los Angeles-based Cover Architecture. More about Cover Architecture turns Pasadena home into "sanctuary for daily living"
American architecture studio Donaldson + Partners took cues from gemstones to design Fractal-Facade House in southern California, which features sculptural walls and a V-shaped floor plan. More about Donaldson + Partners creates faceted home for lofty site in Beverly Hills
Mexican studio PPAA has created a blocky concrete house on a narrow site in Los Angeles, California, USA, carving out courtyards and voids into the form. More about PPAA utilises "subtractive design" for concrete house in Los Angeles
Architecture studio Brooks + Scarpa has created a three-storey Manhattan Beach house that capitalises on views and indoor-outdoor living while avoiding standard tactics used in the area's housing stock. More about Brooks + Scarpa breaks with local convention at Alma Switch House in California
From houses clad in reflective surfaces to those that draw on traditional desert architecture, we've selected eight homes and hotels built to facilitate human life in the arid deserts of California, USA. More about Eight elegant California dwellings designed for desert living
Local studio Ogawa Fisher Architects has completed a wedge-shaped California house with skylights, board-formed concrete walls, and a submerged workshop with a functioning car lift. More about Ogawa Fisher Architects outfits California house with underground workshop
A white concrete dome punctured by porthole-like windows shelters this holiday home in California, designed by Ukrainian designer and builder Anastasiya Dudik. More about Domed home in California is designed to feel both "ancient and otherworldly"
Italian architect Mirtilla Alliata di Montereale has completed a residence in Joshua Tree with walls tinted in shades of blue to echo the changing desert sky. More about Mirtilla Alliata di Montereale creates Casa Azzurra desert retreat in California
LA-based furniture design studio Willett has worked with interior design and development studio Ome Dezin to reimagine a 1960s residence in the hills of Laurel Canyon. More about Willett and Ome Dezin renovate mid-century CM G1 House in LA
Materials from Asia informed the co-founders of California studio OWIU Design while renovating a house for themselves in Los Angeles originally designed by architect and SCI-Arc co-founder Ray Kappe. More about OWIU remodels Ray Kappe's Glass Ridge House in LA
Chiselled stone walls and vast stretches of glass define a coastal California home by US studio Field Architecture, which was designed to "bring the residents closer to nature with every turn". More about Field Architecture perches Big Sur House on bluff overlooking the ocean
US brand Design Within Reach has enlisted British fashion designer Paul Smith to furnish an iconic mid-century home in Palm Desert that can now be rented out by guests. More about DWR and Paul Smith outfit historic Wave House with striped and plaid furniture
Architect Lorcan O'Herlihy of LOHA has created a concrete home in Malibu, USA, to replace a 1980s house he designed for his parents, which was destroyed by a 2018 wildfire. More about Lorcan O'Herlihy creates fire-resistant Trancas House 2.0 in Malibu
Case Study: Adapt has selected 10 architecture studios to take part in an initiative to design homes for people affected by the devastating January wildfires based on the mid-century Case Study home building initiative. More about Case Study: Adapt brings together architects to rebuild after the LA fires
Los Angeles-based Assembledge+ and Jamie Bush + Co have teamed up to create the Rustic Canyon Residence in Pacific Palisades, referencing the form of a previous Richard Neutra design, updated using natural materials. More about Rustic Canyon Residence in Los Angeles references early Richard Neutra design
US studio Schwartz and Architecture has completed a sensitive renovation and expansion of the Green House, which was built in 1966 and designed by Aaron Green, an associate of Frank Lloyd Wright. More about Schwartz and Architecture updates Silicon Valley house by Frank Lloyd Wright protégé