Architect Matthew Royce drew upon both global and local influences while designing a home for himself in southern California that features industrial materials and subterranean reflecting pools. More about Matthew Royce includes underground pools in industrial Venice Beach house
Architecture studio Design, Bitches has completed a southern California home that takes cues from the traditional beach cottage and is meant to be "not too precious". More about Design, Bitches creates Venice Beach bungalow that shows "resilience of archetypes"
Brooks + Scarpa has completed an apartment building with a scalloped, textured facade in Los Angeles that offers affordable low-cost housing to young adults that are transitioning out of group homes. More about Scalloped facade fronts supportive housing facility in Los Angeles by Brooks + Scarpa
Los Angeles studio Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects has completed a sleek stucco home in Venice Beach, California. More about EYRC tucks light-filled house behind white walls in Venice Beach
This art and design gallery in Venice, California occupies a former private house where interiors by designer Gabriella Kuti provide a warm, neutral backdrop for the works on show. More about Maison Lune gallery in California showcases art and design in residential setting
Los Angeles design studio Part Office has renovated two condominiums on the California coast, as part of a wider conversion of buildings into hybrid residential and office spaces. More about Part Office transforms Venice Beach condos into "calm" live-work units
US furniture brand Emeco has worked with architect David Saik to convert an old sewing factory in Los Angeles into a multipurpose hub and "conversation place" with a cactus growing from the ground indoors. More about David Saik gives Emeco a cactus-filled Californian brand home
LA studio Pentagon has completed a ground-up residential project in the city's Venice neighbourhood, using rounded walls to create a sculptural composition and enhance the home's natural light. More about Curved plaster walls feature in bright Los Angeles home by Pentagon
A large, plywood box filled with mushrooms and other low plants sits in the middle of the Olderbrother clothing store in California, designed by the brand's founders. More about Mushroom planter forms focal point at Olderbrother store in Venice Beach
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
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
The undulating metal exterior of this family home in Venice Beach by Los Angeles designer Mario Romano takes its cues from the movement of the ocean. More about Mario Romano creates rippling aluminium skin for California home