California

NBBJ uses “softly curving” buildings for adolescent behavioural health campus

September 3, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architecture firm NBBJ has integrated a series of curved buildings into a sloped California site to create an “inclusive, healing environment” for a behavioural health campus for adolescent patients. The 55,600 square foot (5,165 square metres) campus is located in Monterey and serves as a local and adolescent-focused branch of Montage Health, a California-based non-profit

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NBBJ uses “softly curving” buildings for adolescent behavioural health campus

September 3, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Architecture firm NBBJ has integrated a series of curved buildings into a sloped California site to create an “inclusive, healing environment” for a behavioural health campus for adolescent patients. The 55,600 square foot (5,165 square metres) campus is located in Monterey and serves as a local and adolescent-focused branch of Montage Health, a California-based non-profit

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Architect couple creates Atwater House in Los Angeles over two decades

August 19, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

A co-founder of the firm Design, Bitches and her architect husband have completed the latest iteration of their family home in California, which features ample daylight and the “feeling of being in the trees”. The house belongs to architects Rebecca Rudolph, a principal at local studio Design, Bitches, and Colin Thompson, who works at Gensler.

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Ceremony of Roses offices by 22RE feature 1970s-influenced meeting spaces

August 17, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Los Angeles studio 22RE has included a “huddle room” that resembles a sunken living room at the offices for a creative music agency. The offices within a 1950s factory in Culver City were designed for Ceremony of Roses, an artist merchandising and brand services company for top music creatives. Working with creative director Madeline Denley

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ORA utilises LA’s fallen street trees inside Uchi West Hollywood restaurant

August 10, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Vertical fins of live-edge wood, which was sourced from fallen street trees, divide spaces at this Japanese restaurant in Los Angeles by local studio ORA. Uchi West Hollywood is the first West Coast location for chef Tyson Cole’s Austin-based chain, operated by Hai Hospitality Group. Situated on a prominent corner along Santa Monica Boulevard, the

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Intuit Dome basketball stadium set to open its doors in Los Angeles

August 7, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

A roof informed by a basketball “passing through a net” characterises the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, which was designed by international firm AECOM for the LA Clippers NBA team. The oval-shaped arena is scheduled to open its doors next week in Inglewood after more than three years of construction. It is located near the

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Malek Alqadi references Petra for series of follies in California desert

August 5, 2024 Ben Dreith 0

California studio Malek Alqadi has created a series of monumental concrete hotel suites in the Mojave Desert, USA, informed by Middle Eastern archaeological sites. Folly Mojave is a series of standalone structures in the middle of the Californian desert. It comprises five structures, one single-storey amenity space and four different suites with two storeys, designed

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NBBJ completes nature-infused California school for neurodiverse students

August 2, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

Staggered volumes organised around a rounded courtyard form the net-zero Westmark Lower School, which was designed by architecture studio NBBJ to “reduce anxiety and stress” for students with learning differences. Located in the southern California town of Encino, the facility is part of the larger Westmark School, which serves children with learning challenges such as

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Eames Institute renovates 1990s industrial building to house headquarters

August 1, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

The design team at the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity has renovated an industrial building in California to host the organisation’s headquarters and a 40,000-object archive. Launched in 2023, the Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity is a non-profit dedicated to preserving the Eames legacy through digital and physical public programming, including hosting tours of the

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Mork-Ulnes balances ADU on California mountainside

July 21, 2024 Kate Mazade 0

International studio Mork-Ulnes Architects has created an angled accessory dwelling unit in the mountains of Marin County, California with wooden interiors and a loft space. Completed in the spring of 2023, the Crest Guesthouse measures 411 square feet (38 square metres) and was built on the old foundations of a former garage by Mork-Ulnes Architects,

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