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Milanese modernism informs LA pizzeria interior by Jared Frank Studio

November 9, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

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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Studio Gang places “eccentric” mass-timber buildings around concrete terrace

November 8, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architecture studio Studio Gang has completed an expansive extension at the California College of the Arts San Francisco campus, which includes exposed bracing and a concrete terrace. The 82,305 square foot (7,646 square metre) addition extends outwards from the college’s main academic building and consists of buildings and courtyards encased in a large, elevated concrete

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Moroccan riads influence tiled interior of LA restaurant Zizou

November 3, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

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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Electric Bowery and Land infuse Laguna Beach hotel with “Mallorcan vibes”

October 28, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

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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Tall “acoustic wall” buffers noise at Modal Home in Silicon Valley

October 22, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

US studio Schwartz and Architecture has completed a courtyard-style house in California that is closed off to the street yet opens up in the rear, allowing for ample natural light and a connection to the outdoors. Located near downtown Menlo Park, the Modal Home sits at a busy intersection and across the street from a

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WORKac completes San Francisco offices with “dynamic sense of topography”

October 8, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

New York architecture studio WORKac has completed an office building with a white, layered facade at the Mission Rock development in San Francisco. With eight storeys and 300,000 square feet (27,870 square metres), the building is made of a series of tiered floor plates and “carved-out” terraces meant to echo the California landscape. It is

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Weiszblüth & Brown designs tiny Thai eatery in LA that “packs a punch”

October 6, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

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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“Gives off a cool Bond villain vibe” says commenter

October 4, 2024 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing a submerged concrete and glass house in California, designed by local studio Donaldson + Partners. Seven years in the making, the circular structure features large concrete parabolic arches and was envisioned as a “house for the twenty-first century”. “Those views, yet the house is so introverted” Commenters

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Donaldson + Partners creates arched house “for the twenty-first century”

October 1, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

California-based studio Donaldson + Partners has designed a circular house partially embedded in the landscape with large concrete parabolic arches in Montecito, California. Seven years in the making, the 14,000-square foot (1,300-square metre) house is sunken into a four-acre lot between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, outside Santa Barbara. Robin Donaldson, founder

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Kadre Architects creates colourful transitional housing in California desert

September 25, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

US studio Kadre Architects has converted two rundown motels in Los Angeles County into The Sierra, a supportive living complex that serves as a “new housing prototype” for people experiencing homelessness. The project is located in Lancaster, a city in the Mojave Desert situated about 70 miles (113 kilometres) north of Los Angeles. The Sierra

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