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The Titus brothers reached out to MH Architects to explore the concept of a new winery facility located in Napa Valley in 2012. The client’s stated goal was to express the spirit of Titus Vineyards wine through the architectural components of the winery design.
DES Architects + Engineers (DES A+E) just completed the Moffett Place High Garden — a two-acre rooftop park — in the heart of Silicon Valley. It is one of the largest elevated parks ever completed in the region.
The Windhover Contemplative Center is a spiritual retreat on the Stanford campus to promote and inspire personal renewal. Using Nathan Oliveira’s meditative Windhover paintings as a vehicle, the chapel-like center provides a refuge from the intensity of daily life.
The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) opened its new Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed home on January 31st with the exhibition Architecture of Life, running until May 29th.
The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design invited PAR to design a temporary structure for their annual ForumFest benefit held at the Sixth Street Viaduct on October 25, 2015.
This project consists of a single-story addition and renovation to an existing mid-century ranch house in Menlo Park, California.
A research scientist with an eye for detail approached Studio VARA with a modest vision and a couple of basic practical needs: First, transform a 1908 Noe Valley cottage – with a history of subpar alterations – into a cohesive modern dwelling.
As promised in last month's "first look" at Diller Scofidio + Renfro's recently completed McMurtry Building for the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University, here are completed photos of the building taken by Iwan Baan.
The much-anticipated opening of The Broad, the museum designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for Eli and Edythe Broad in downtown Los Angeles, takes place on September 20th.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro recently completed the McMurtry Building for the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. Writer Fred Bernstein got a tour of the building from Charles Renfro and filed this report for World-Architects.
Some aerial drone footage from the first day of September reveals the construction progress on Apple's huge ring-shaped headquarters designed by Norman Foster and located in Cupertino, California.
For the exhibition Shelter: Rethinking how we live in Los Angeles, PAR proposes a new model of high-rise courtyard housing, integrated with mass transit, on LACMA’s proposed tower site on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile.
This adaptive reuse project transforms the most banal of commercial box buildings into a light-filled courtyard office space specifically outfitted for a discerning, high-end residential builder with an exclusive clientele.
The primary objective for this tiny cafe in the heart of downtown San Francisco was to bring epicurean level coffee at a rate and speed to meet the Financial District’s demands while simultaneously revitalizing a stretch of sidewalk that has been fallow for over twenty years.
The "Tin House," which Frank Gehry designed for artist Ron Davis in the late 1960s and has been owned by actor Patrick Dempsey since 2009, has hit the market with an asking price of $14.5 million.
In 2011, Hunter Leggitt Studio temporarily relocated from Los Angeles to the high desert near Lake Isabella, California, to design and build a custom, highly crafted, modern cabin.
Soon after moving into its Frank Gehry-designed headquarters in Menlo Park, California, Facebook has revealed plans for two adjacent buildings also designed by Gehry.
Yesterday Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on Faceboook that "we moved into our new Facebook building in Menlo Park, California," accompanied by a photo of the building's green roof.
A finely designed and crafted personal environment is not only an expression of aesthetic sensibility – it enhances and restores wellbeing, clarity and harmony.
The latest design by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for the $600 million expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art sees a simplification of its form and other changes.
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture has launched the online publication Schindler Lab, which documents their "initiative that prompts artists and architects to develop installations highlighting Rudolph M. Schindler's domestic experiment."
The New York Times is reporting that Google has hired the offices of Thomas Heatherwick and Bjarke Ingels for a proposed new headquarters in Mountain View, California.
Although The Broad in downtown Los Angeles won't open until September 2015, the museum opened the doors of its Diller, Scofidio + Renfro building yesterday for the one-day Sky-Lit exhibit in its third floor space.
Some aerial drone footage from earlier this month reveals the construction progress on Apple's huge ring-shaped headquarters designed by Norman Foster and located in Cupertino, California.
This project is as a minimalist "open-ended" event space for an avid maker-client and his creative partners to experiment and ideate.
A. Zahner Co., the go-to engineering and fabrication company based in Kansas City, Missouri, has worked with Thom Mayne and Morphosis on a number of projects, including the L.A. outpost of Boston's Emerson College, completed last year.
This mixed-use development of urban market-rate homes, restaurants and shops continues the repair of the neighborhood fabric damaged by the removal of the Central Freeway.
On the last day of 2014 The Broad museum announced the last sections of scaffolding were removed from around its new façade, dubbed the "veil" by architects Diller, Scofidio + Renfro.
The Presidio Trust has announced that James Corner Field Operations has been selected from among five finalists to design thirteen acres of new parkland overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Our design for two new blocks of affordable family housing at Hunters View is part of the first phase of San Francisco’s ambitious HOPE SF program, a plan to revitalize the worst of San Francisco’s crime-ridden and forgotten low-income neighborhoods.
In lieu of cantilevering over the adjacent La Brea tar pits, Peter Zumthor's design for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art proposes to span Wilshire Boulevard.
Peter Zumthor's preliminary plans for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art are highlighted in a new exhibition.