Saez Pedraja adds small studio to a fashion designer's Santa Monica residence
California architect Juan Saez Pedraja has added a studio fronted with aluminium panels and cedar shades to the backyard of a remodelled Santa Monica residence. More
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Commune designs gluten-free BreadBlok bakery in California with creamy interiors
Los Angeles studio Commune has used plaster walls, wood built-ins and terracotta tile floors to create a rustic feel inside this bakery in Santa Monica. More
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Kelly Wearstler designs relaxed and beachy Santa Monica Proper hotel
American interior designer Kelly Wearstler scoured vintage shops to source the eclectic furniture that decorates the living room-style lobby of this hotel in Santa Monica, California. More
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Montalba Architects incorporates meditation areas into Headspace office
Employees are encouraged to take a breather at the expanded, Santa Monica headquarters for meditation company Headspace, which was designed by American firm Montalba Architects. More
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Bold yellow cladding enlivens media buildings at Santa Monica College by Clive Wilkinson
California studio Clive Wilkinson Architects used bright colours, ample glazing and angled lines to create a media campus in Los Angeles' Silicon Beach that aims to break down "the schism between education and the workplace". More
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Big and Tiny is a co-working space with childcare in California
A kids' play area is included in this co-working space in Santa Monica designed by Spanish firm Zooco Estudio, so its members can bring their children to work. More
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Frank Gehry incorporates more public space into Santa Monica development plans
A proposed complex in Santa Monica by Frank Gehry has been updated by the locally based architect to include a lower rippled tower, along with more affordable housing options and pedestrian areas. More
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Messana O'Rorke uses wood, marble and concrete for Malin+Goetz's US stores
New York studio Messana O'Rorke has completed three new boutiques for the high-end skincare brand Malin+Goetz in the USA, each of which features a different look (+ slideshow). More
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Kevin Daly Architects builds a low-cost housing community in Santa Monica
The four buildings that make up this affordable housing development in Santa Monica, California, all feature mint-green solar shades on their facades, and are organised around a "starfish-shaped" courtyard (+ slideshow). More
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LOHA's revamped Santa Monica bus shelters are blue discs on stilts
Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects has redesigned Santa Monica's bus shelters by developing a modular kit of parts that can be used to build an assortment of round blue canopies, supported on slender poles (+ slideshow). More
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OMA selected for downtown Santa Monica project
News: architecture firm OMA has been selected to design a major mixed-use public building featuring angled blocks stacked like dominoes for downtown Santa Monica, California (+ slideshow). More
