California

An LA-based team comprised of Mouthwash Studio and Aunt Studio has designed Mexican restaurant with ample patio space underneath a railway in the city’s Chinatown neighbourhood. Modelled on a casual Mexico City cantina, the interiors for Cafe Tondo created with Aunt Studio are intended to be inviting and act as a community hub. The project

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LA-based Manola Studio has renovated a 1940s motel to create a boutique hotel close to the north entrance to Joshua Tree National Park. The 12-room, adults-only Hotel Wren sits on the outskirts of Twentynine Palms, a small town in California’s High Desert that acts as a gateway into the park. Manola Studio transformed the historic

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LA-based Jared Frank Studio has looked to Milan’s history of modernist design for references while focusing on “what a West Coast pizza parlour could be”. Wildcrust occupies a single-storey building with a fully glazed front in Highland Park, north of Downtown LA. When designing the interiors, Jared Frank Studio used the opportunity to rethink the

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Moroccan influences and materials create an “urban oasis” at this restaurant in Los Angeles, which owners Maati Zoutina and Boris Macquin designed and built themselves. Situated in the Lincoln Heights neighbourhood, Zizou is a venture by two friends – a sound designer and an architect – who combined their skills and knowledge to bring their

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California architecture studio Electric Bowery and graphic design firm Land have completed the renovation of a 1980s hotel in Laguna Beach informed by European seaside inns. Perched on a cliff overlooking the Pacific, Casa Loma was originally built in the 1980s and is made up of tiered volumes surrounding a central pool deck. The hotel

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Diners pack tightly into this informal Thai restaurant in Los Angeles, which local studio Weiszblüth & Brown has designed to echo the intense flavours of the food served. Holy Basil Market has 16 seats within just 90 square feet (8.4 square metres) of space in Atwater Village, following a highly successful first location Downtown. Chefs

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