American interior designer Kelly Wearstler paired the rich history of Downtown Los Angeles with other colourful global influences when creating this hotel, which features 136 unique types of tile. More about Kelly Wearstler makes "bold and eclectic choices" for Downtown LA Proper hotel
American firms NAC Architecture and Bernards have used shipping containers to form private apartments in a Los Angeles facility for people experiencing homelessness. More about Shipping containers used to build LA housing complex for the homeless
Apple Tower Theatre is a new Apple Store designed by UK studio Foster + Partners inside an abandoned 1920s movie theatre in Downtown Los Angeles. More about Apple opens store by Foster + Partners in Los Angeles' historic Tower Theatre
Architecture studio Woods Bagot has designed a concept for electric vehicle charging stations for Downtown Los Angeles that could double as drive-in movie theatres. More about Woods Bagot imagines electric vehicle charging stations as drive-in cinemas
British-Ghanaian architect David Adjaye has designed two buildings for the upcoming Fourth and Central mixed-use development in Los Angeles, which is being master-planned by Studio One Eleven. More about David Adjaye and Studio One Eleven reveal Fourth and Central development in LA
Architecture and design studio OWIU Studio has renovated an apartment in an old factory in Downtown Los Angeles, adding Japanese design elements to the industrial space. More about OWIU Studio brings Japanese style to Biscuit Loft apartment in Los Angeles
Canadian studio DesignAgency incorporated "soft and graceful flourishes" into NeueHouse's latest co-working location that occupies a full floor in a 1890s structure in Downtown Los Angeles. More about NeueHouse opens Los Angeles co-working space inside landmarked Bradbury Building
Wick Architecture & Design chose materials "that could be found on a construction site" to decorate this Mexican restaurant in Downtown Los Angeles. More about Terracotta brick and stucco create rustic aesthetic in Mexican restaurant Loqui
Soho House has turned a former warehouse in Downtown Los Angeles into a new spot for its members, featuring a rooftop pool, hotel rooms and garden. More about Soho House opens second Los Angeles outpost in Downtown warehouse
Stephen Kenn Studio has transformed an apartment within a century-old factory building into an Airbnb-style rental, where guests can try out furniture designed by the Los Angeles firm and its partner brands. More about Stephen Kenn Loft in downtown Los Angeles doubles as "micro hotel" and showroom
Australian firm Koichi Takada Architects has unveiled a slatted timber tower for Los Angeles, featuring a splayed bottom that draws on Marilyn Monroe's "flying skirt" moment. More about Sky Trees tower proposed for Los Angeles takes cues from redwoods and Marilyn Monroe
Swedish furniture brand Hem has opened its first permanent US showroom in Los Angeles, featuring a courtyard decorated with colourful graphics that resemble confetti. More about Hem opens LA showroom with "supersized confetti" installation
Patterns created by Turkish media artist Refik Anadol are being projected onto the facades of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles each night for a limited time. More about Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall illuminates with dream-like visuals
Global firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has designed and engineered a federal courthouse for a sloped site in Downtown Los Angeles, which appears as an elevated cube with folded glass facades. More about SOM wraps Downtown LA courthouse in pleats of glass
Oke Hauser and Corinna Natter of MINI Living and architect David Freeland explain how the micro home they built on a Los Angeles rooftop responds to the city in our latest Dezeen x MINI Living movie. More about Latest MINI Living Urban Cabin references "dynamic construction of Los Angeles"
Los Angeles architecture firm FreelandBuck has added a volume covered in bold graphics to the latest edition of the MINI Living Urban Cabin, a prototype micro home installed on a rooftop in the city's Downtown area. More about MINI Living Urban Cabin for LA features central intervention by FreelandBuck
A forest of trees, artificial snow and a giant cuckoo clock provided the setting for dinners at a pop-up restaurant in Los Angeles, created by German designer Hendrik Müller for kitchen brand Gaggenau. More about Hendrik Müller recreates The Black Forest in LA warehouse for Gaggenau's Restaurant 1683
Los Angeles-based Studio Unltd has used influences from Morocco to Turkey for the interiors of this Middle Eastern restaurant in the city's Arts District. More about Studio Unltd turns light-filled warehouse into Bavel restaurant in LA
Architect Frank Gehry has again revised plans for the towering complex opposite his Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, which will finally begin construction this autumn. More about Frank Gehry updates The Grand mixed-use development for Downtown LA
American studio ASAP has conceived a new hotel for the urban core of Los Angeles that is meant to evoke a rock emerging from the landscape. More about ASAP gives rocky form to Downtown LA hotel tower