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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House is an early example of Mayan Revival architecture

June 6, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

In celebration of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s 150th birthday this week, we’re looking back at five of his most pioneering projects. Next up is the Hollyhock House, which was influenced by the style of seventh-century Mayan temples. Located in the East Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles, Hollyhock House was completed between 1919 and 1921. As Wright’s first house

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“Designed in California” is the new “made in Italy” according to Design Museum exhibition

May 24, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Skateboards, Snapchat Spectacles, an early Gay Pride flag and a self-driving car sit side by side in a new Design Museum exhibition that explores how California has become the new centre of the design industry. Called California: Designing Freedom, the exhibition documents the American west-coast counterculture movements of the 1960s, and looks at how they fed into today’s

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Brooks + Scarpa completes The Six housing for LA’s homeless and disabled veterans

May 16, 2017 John Trujillo 0

California architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has designed a low-cost housing development in Los Angeles to accommodate displaced service members. Commissioned by Skid Row Housing Trust, a local homeless-advocacy group, The Six offers low-cost, permanent housing for homeless and/or disabled veterans in the region. Veterans make up three per cent of LA’s population, but account

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Glazing in jagged roof brightens Los Angeles home by Studio William Hefner

May 9, 2017 John Trujillo 0

Los Angeles-based Studio William Hefner has built a local home that features abundant clerestory windows and an overhanging upper floor that shades terraces below. Situated in a residential neighbourhood in west Los Angeles, the Toulon Drive House was commissioned by a couple who wanted “an emphasis on natural light and the surrounding landscape”. A path

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San Carlos Midcentury Modern Remodel By Klopf Architecture

May 9, 2017 Erin 0

Photography ©2016 Mariko Reed   Klopf Architecture have remodeled a 1960s midcentury modern home in San Carlos, California, to be a more open, light, and indoor-outdoor, contemporary home. The renovated house features a wood and grey exterior, and when approaching the house, you walking down a concrete path surrounded by rock gardens, wood fencing and […]

San Carlos Midcentury Modern Remodel By Klopf Architecture

May 9, 2017 Erin 0

Photography ©2016 Mariko Reed   Klopf Architecture have remodeled a 1960s midcentury modern home in San Carlos, California, to be a more open, light, and indoor-outdoor, contemporary home. The renovated house features a wood and grey exterior, and when approaching the house, you walking down a concrete path surrounded by rock gardens, wood fencing and […]

Nobu opens Japanese-influenced oceanside hotel in Malibu

May 9, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

Studio PCH and Montalba Architects have converted a 1950s beachfront hotel into Nobu Ryokan Malibu, the first in a line of high-end, Japanese-inspired retreats. Stretching along a waterfront property in the affluent California city, the boutique hotel is the first in Japanese restaurant chain Nobu’s Ryokan collection of exclusive retreats in exotic settings and gateway cities.

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FOG Studio’s Cooley Landing centre provides facilities for Bay Area wetland reserve

May 8, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

A+Awards: California firm FOG Studio worked with the residents of East Palo Alto to design this bayside community centre and exhibition space, another winner at the 2016 Architizer A+Awards. The Cooley Landing Education Center is located on a peninsula at the southern end of San Francisco Bay. It sits on a former landfill site, which was

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Skyscraper competition proposal involves erecting towers within world’s largest trees

May 1, 2017 Jenna McKnight 0

A conceptual scheme by a team of South Korean designers calls for inserting towers within the hollowed-out trunks of giant sequoias in the western US. Called Tribute: The Monument of Giant, the visionary scheme imagines buildings constructed within the empty trunks of giant sequoias, a type of redwood tree native to the Sierra Nevada mountains in California.

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