Sarah Amelar

The new Business and Humanities District honors O’Neil Ford’s campus design while incorporating advanced materials and systems.

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Jr., the precariously sited (and pop-culture-famous) historic landmark in Rancho Palos Verdes was at risk of total destruction from encroaching landslides.

Using primarily concrete, the architect rebuilds on the site of a destroyed house he had designed for his parents nearly four decades earlier.

From hempcrete houses to inhabitable dioramas, Neyran Turan and Mete Sönmez highlight the often-overlooked economies of architecture.

<p>The 98-unit Flor Lofts, dedicated to residents transitioning out of homelessness, fosters a sense of community and well-being though landscaping and communal outdoor spaces.</p>

The Albuquerque-based AIA Gold Medalist made his mark on New Mexico and the American Southwest—and beyond—with high-profile cultural commissions and academic projects.

The Los Angeles–based firm convinced its client to reuse the bones of a WWII-era relic in the San Fernando Valley for the home of the Victory Wellness Center.

At the University of California, Santa Barbara, a new student-owned bike shop is a marked upgrade from the double-wide trailer that it replaces.

A bicoastal architecture studio finds formal inspiration in California’s stringent energy codes, which are intended to make new construction and renovations increasingly sustainable.

The Sierra Institute and atelierjones propose the use of fire-hardened, cross-laminated timber to replace the nearly 600 Greenville homes destroyed by California’s Dixie Wildfire in 2021.

A 10-story mass-timber tower designed by LEVER Architecture in collaboration with several university and industry partners withstood a recent seismic resiliency test at UCSD’s Englekirk Structural Engineering Center.

A historic citrus-packing facility is converted into a light-filled dance rehearsal and performance space at Chapman University.

Thom Mayne’s new museum in Costa Mesa, California, has a wrapper that warps, skews, and bends.

Working with Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design, the architects established a pair of luminous additions for performing arts students.

The daring new span replaces a beloved, but unsalvageable, emblem of the city.

This technology promises to produce high-quality, customizable, and quickly produced houses across the economic spectrum.

Thom Mayne and his wife, Blythe Alison-Mayne, have tucked their house within a well-planted slice of L.A.

A new book reveals the untold stories and little-known characters behind one of the most recognizable mid-century modern homes in the world.

Thom Mayne and his wife, Blythe Alison-Mayne, have tucked their house within a well-planted slice of L.A.

Selldorf Architects is the latest notable firm to reimagine the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.