LA-based Manola Studio has renovated a 1940s motel to create a boutique hotel close to the north entrance to Joshua Tree National Park. More about Manola Studio turns former motel into desert oasis near Joshua Tree
Identical shipping container-style units make up this hotel, where guests feel as though they are "on Mars" at the edge of Joshua Tree National Park, designed by Benjamin Uyeda, Adam Wininger and Gry Space. More about Prefabricated containers form Reset Hotel in California's high desert
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
San Francisco studio Ryan Leidner Architecture has based the design of a wood-and-stucco desert house and art studio in southern California on mid-century Eichler homes and southwestern art. More about Ryan Leidner Architecture creates home and studio in High Desert
A clubhouse informed by Quonset huts features at an AutoCamp glamping site in southern California designed by American firms HKS and Narrative Design Studio. More about AutoCamp opens Airstream glamping site near Joshua Tree National Park
London designer James Whitaker's starburst-shaped shipping container house for Joshua Tree, California, has gone on sale for $3.5 million before construction has even started. More about Unbuilt shipping container house for Joshua Tree on sale for .5 million
Designer Tomas Osinsk and Los Angeles film producer Chris Hanley have created a mirrored house near Joshua Tree National Park, designed to look like a New York skyscraper on its side. More about Mirror-clad Invisible House reflects its desert surrounds
Los Angeles studio Mini Inno added a Japanese-style tea room to a 1960s property in Joshua Tree National Park while turning it into a holiday home. More about Mini Inno renovates mid-century home Villa Kuro in Joshua Tree
This pair of gabled structures, built from weathering steel by Cohesion Studio, can be rented by visitors in the California desert. More about Gabled metal Folly cabins provide glamping site in Joshua Tree
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