California

Jialun Xiong highlights “intricacies and textures” at Sichuanese restaurant in LA

January 14, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

Subtle nods to traditional Chinese architecture can be found throughout this restaurant in California, designed by LA-based Jialun Xiong. Sichuan Impression’s third outpost, located in Alhambra, occupies a 2,000-square-foot (186-square-metre) space that “takes an elegantly pared-down approach to family-style dining”. Jialun Xiong took an equally relaxed approach to the interiors, combining warm and soft colours

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Ome Dezin restores 1960s California residence by A Quincy Jones

January 13, 2024 Dan Howarth 0

US studio Ome Dezin has renovated a large mid-century home in Brentwood, California, using a tonal colour palette and maximising the lush hillside views. The six-bedroom 12221 Benmore residence was designed and constructed in 1960 by notable local architects A Quincy Jones and Frederick Emmon. When Jesse Rudolph and Joelle Kutner of Ome Dezin came

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PlayLab Inc centres “space for conversation” in Los Angeles retail store

January 3, 2024 Ellen Eberhardt 0

LA studio PlayLab Inc has created a flagship store that contains a sky blue conversation pit at its centre for local clothing brand MadHappy. PlayLab Inc split the West Hollywood store into two distinct zones – one for retail space and the other for “intimate gathering spaces”, including a cafe and a courtyard. “Our collective

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Farm buildings inform Sonoma ADU by Schwartz and Architecture

January 2, 2024 Jenna McKnight 0

American studio Schwartz and Architecture has completed a cedar-clad accessory dwelling unit on a California property that is meant to serve as “a jumping off point for a modern wine country design”. The Diamond ADU is part of a family estate in Sonoma, a historic town in northern California’s winemaking region. The property has a

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Artistree raises a telescopic treehouse in California

December 27, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

US company Artistree Home designed a treehouse with vaulted form, raised off the ground in Sonoma County, California. Completed in 2023, the latest design — known as Spyglass by Hometree — is a 300-square foot (28-square-metre) residence in an 11-acre (5-hectare) forested lot in Occidental, California. “The design for Spyglass came from that whimsical childhood

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Hopson Rodstrom Design creates jagged-roof Los Angeles building with interior courtyard

December 18, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Located in West Los Angeles on a busy thoroughfare, the project is called The Jagger – named after the massive sawtooth roof that tops it. Pasadena-based studio Hopson Rodstrom Design (H/RD), designed

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Kelly Wearstler adorns Ulla Johnson store to capture the “spirit of southern California”

November 30, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

American interior designer Kelly Wearstler has paired a towering tree with speckled burl wood panelling and vintage furniture by Carlo Scarpa at the Ulla Johnson flagship store in West Hollywood. Wearstler created the light-filled, two-storey shop as the flagship Los Angeles location for Johnson’s eponymous clothing brand. The duo worked together to envisage the sandy-hued

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“Do you like it, corporate overlords?” asks commenter

November 29, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing an extension of media company Warner Bros’ headquarters in Burbank, completed by LA architecture studio Gehry Partners. The complex features two distinctive facades – glass intended to evoke the form of icebergs is interspersed with steel facades modelled on the art deco-style buildings of early Hollywood. “The

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Leddy Maytum Stacy revamps century-old university building in California

November 28, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Exterior louvres and faceted canopies are among the elements that US studio Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects has added to a 1920s academic facility, helping it achieve net-zero energy consumption, according to the studio. The Walker Hall project involved transforming a “vacant, seismically unsafe building” on the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) campus in northern

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Gehry Partners references icebergs and Hollywood for Warner Bros building

November 22, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

LA architecture studio Gehry Partners has completed the extension of media company Warner Bros’ headquarters in Burbank, which juxtaposes two distinctive facade styles. Called Second Century Burbank, the Gehry Partners-designed complex contains additional offices and studios for the headquarters, which is flanked by a major highway and the studio lot. Its name marks the celebration

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