California

Local studio Hsu McCullough has completed a stucco and ash home with an accessory dwelling unit in Los Angeles’ that wraps around an elm tree. Hsu McCullough created the chevron-shaped home, called Psomas, on a wedge-shaped lot in the city’s Mar Vista district. The irregularly shaped lot provided the primary inspiration for the design. “This ‘pizza

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Binational studio Montalba Architects used ample glazing and a clever siting strategy to provide the best vistas at Canyon Terrace House in southern California. Designed for a family of four, the multi-storey home sits on a sloped site in Santa Monica. Providing a connection to the outdoors – including views of a nearby canyon –

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California studio Bittoni Architects has completed Common Melrose, a communal living complex with 23 bedrooms that is meant to be an “affordable alternative to traditional living arrangements”. Built on a formerly vacant lot, Common Melrose stretches along a commercial avenue in an area between Central LA and Hollywood. Designed by LA’s Bittoni Architects, it contains

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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”. The B+B House is located in Venice Beach, a coastal town known for its mix of century-old bungalows and experimental contemporary architecture. “This specific site is nestled on the

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Cedar cladding and large stretches of glass feature in a weekend house called Sonoma Wine Country, which has been enlarged by US studio Feldman Architecture. The project is located in the Sonoma County town of Healdsburg, within the heart of northern California’s wine region. It sits on a 40-acre (16-hectare) property with sweeping views of

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Studio Schicketanz has completed a renovation of the former seaside home of modernist architect Henry Hill. Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, the cedar house was originally constructed in 1961 and expanded in 1969 and again in 1971, with unusually shaped rooms, rounded seating spaces and colourful glass accents. Studio Schicketanz updated the two-bedroom, three-bathroom house in

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Bay Area studio David Baker Architects has completed 145 units of social housing using modular construction and a weathering steel facade in San Francisco, California. The 63,000-square foot (5,850 metre) project – called Tahanan, the Tagalog word for “coming home” – was completed in November 2021 through a financing prototype that aimed to accelerate the

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