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
An office comprising a cluster of angled shipping containers, proposed for a site in Germany by James Whitaker but never realised, is now being built as a home in the California desert. More about Splayed shipping containers form Joshua Tree Residence conceived by James Whitaker
US firm Jensen Architects has revamped a Victorian home in San Francisco with perforated aluminium panels across the back and minimalist interiors to match. More about Jensen Architects adds contemporary rear facade and pared-down interiors to historic San Francisco house
San Francisco studio Natoma Architects has completed a family residence that consists of intersecting volumes, with connections between its planes of concrete and glass designed to look as minimal as possible. More about Materials meet seamlessly "like an iPhone" at northern California home by Natoma Architects
US firm Bestor Architecture has overhauled rundown buildings in an exclusive southern California neighbourhood to create a spacious, beach-style residence for musician Mike D from the Beastie Boys. More about Bestor Architecture creates Malibu beach home for Beastie Boys rapper
Large expanses of glazing contrast heavy masonry portions of this residence on California's Central Coast, designed by US firm Studio Schicketanz. More about Studio Schicketanz creates home with glass and stone walls in Clint Eastwood's California golf resort
An off-centre pitched roof tops this house in Los Angeles' Venice Beach, which was designed by local studio Electric Bowery to include outdoor kitchen, living and dining areas. More about Venice Beach house by Electric Bowery features askew pitched roof and outdoor lounge
Los Angeles-based Studio William Hefner has taken cues from Californian modernism to complete this house for an art collector that overlooks Beverly Hills. More about Studio William Hefner completes modernist Beverly Hills house for an art collector
US studio Edmonds + Lee Architects has used voids, large windows and white-washed interiors to open up this San Francisco property, breaking away from the tightly packed "pancake-style" layout of its neighbours. More about Edmonds + Lee breaks tradition for gallery-like Remember House in San Francisco
San Francisco firm Schwartz and Architecture has overhauled a single-family home on a steep and narrow site, lifting the existing building to add a storey beneath it, and creating an extension at the back over three levels. More about Schwartz and Architecture overhauls San Francisco home with three-level extension
A Japanese-style reading nook and a sculptural wooden staircase feature in this 1970s Los Angeles house, which has been overhauled by local studio Dan Brunn Architecture to "pay homage" to its original architect Frank Gehry. More about Dan Brunn renovates Frank Gehry-designed LA house for an illustrator
The founders of US firm Edmonds + Lee Architects designed this urban dwelling for themselves, including a bright white facade, a slanted roof and retractable glass walls. More about Edmonds + Lee creates white Switchback House for sloped street in San Francisco
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
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
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
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
This single-storey dwelling was designed by US studio Klopf Architecture to have a quiet presence, out of respect for neighbouring buildings and the natural context. More about Northern California home by Klopf Architecture designed to keep a low-profile
Tel Aviv firm Axelrod Architects has overhauled a 1930s residence in California, providing a contemporary black-and-white interior and extensive glazing to take advantage of the site's sweeping views. More about Axelrod Architects renovates hillside home to enhance vistas of San Francisco Bay
American firm Modal Design has created a studio building for a video art collector in California, which features an angular roof and multi-tonal zinc cladding. More about Jagged roof tops video studio in Venice Beach by Modal Design