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For the first time in its 65-year history, the house designed by Pierre Koenig as part of Arts & Architecture magazine's Case Study Houses program, made famous through photographs taken by Julius Shulman, is up for sale.
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has announced that it will open to the public on September 22, 2026—sixteen years after George Lucas first proposed such a museum, twelve years after he selected Ma Yansong and MAD Architects to design it, and eight years after construction began at Exposition...
Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron will transform the historic Birkenstock Campus in Marin County, California, into “a world-class art and design museum” for the nonprofit Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity, which advances the legacy of famed husband-and-wife designers...
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) invited the public into its new David Geffen Galleries, designed by Peter Zumthor in collaboration with SOM, for a summer preview of the building that is set to open in April 2026.
The Palisades Fire that broke out on Tuesday, January 7, has expanded to more than 15,000 acres over the course of two days, growing closer to Case Study House #8, the masterpiece of modern residential architecture designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1949.
The creepy (slow-moving) landslide of Portuguese Bend forced the closure of Wayfarers Chapel earlier this year, but with the landslide accelerating since, management has decided to disassemble the 1951 building designed by Lloyd Wright, the son of Frank Lloyd Wright, so it can be reassembled...
After years of regularly attracting four times more visitors than originally anticipated, The Broad has announced plans to expand its building in Downtown Los Angeles. Appropriately, New York's Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) is designing the expansion to the museum it designed a decade ago.
Renderings have been revealed for The Star, a proposed $1 billion “vertical creative office” campus on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. The design by Foster + Partners features exterior gardens that spiral around the cylindrical 22-story tower.
Michael Maltzan Architecture led the two-decade-long transformation of the Hammer Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. The newly named Lynda and Stewart Resnick Cultural Center opens to the public on March 26.
The Mrs. Clinton Walker Residence in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1977, recently sold for $22 million.
University of California Santa Barbara has released updated visuals of the proposed Munger Hall, the dormitory unveiled in November 2021 to protests over the lack of windows in most bedrooms.
Despite nationwide criticism over the lack of windows in most bedrooms, the University of California, Santa Barbara is apparently moving forward with plans for a 4,500-bed, 11-story dormitory partially funded and designed by 97-year-old billionaire Charles Munger.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, opens to the public on September 30. The project is the renovation of an old department store and the addition of a spherical building.
Construction has wrapped on the Audrey Irmas Pavilion, the first religious commission for OMA New York. The building leans away from the historic Wilshire Boulevard Temple to form a courtyard, bring in natural light, and create a "forward-looking" image for the congregation.
The City of Los Angeles has announced the winners of Low-Rise: Housing Ideas for Los Angeles, the "design challenge" that asked entrants to propose new models of low-rise housing across four categories: Corners, Fourplex, (Re)Distribution, and Subdivision.
Four months after three visions for the La Brea Tar Pits were unveiled, New York's WEISS/MANFREDI has been selected to lead the master plan to re-imagine the Los Angeles...
Property records indicate that the recent purchase of Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic Ennis House in Los Angeles for $18 million — the highest sale for any Wright house — was made by a married couple who founded a luxury brand of cannabis-infused beauty supplies.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has released new renderings of Peter Zumthor's design of the new building for the museum's permanent collection; the project gained county approval in early April and aims to open in 2023 — ten years after it was unveiled.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved to certify the final environmental impact report for Peter Zumthor's proposed expansion of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
A house south of San Francisco designed by architect William Nicholson in 1976, known as the Flinstone House, has entered the news recently after its owner installed giant dinosaurs and a Fred Flinstone sculpture in the yard.
The Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) has unveiled the design for the Southern California museum’s new building by Morphosis Architects, the firm of Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne.
The Wilshire Boulevard Temple has released OMA’s design for the Audrey Irmas Pavilion. Shohei Shigematsu's design "will serve as a multi-purpose gathering place, forging new connections within the existing campus and creating a new urban presence to engage Los Angeles."
Ahead of its groundbreaking on Wednesday, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has released new renderings of the building designed by MAD Architects for Exposition Park in Los Angeles.
The "private educational forum" of billionaire Nicolas Berggruen will be situated atop a mountain ridge in Los Angeles, near Topanga Canyon State Park.
Documents filed with the Los Angeles Department of City Planning for the new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in LA's Exposition Park include updated renderings by architect Ma Yansong of MAD Architects.
At a lecture on Wednesday night at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Swiss architect Peter Zumthor unveiled new images of his evolving design for LACMA's new $600-million building that would span across Wilshire Boulevard.
Beverly Hills developer Bruce Makowsky is listing a speculative house in Bel Air, California, for $250 million. Appropriately, he has annointed the 38,000-square-foot house, "Billionaire."
Following an unsuccessful attempt at building the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago, filmmaker George Lucas and the museum's board of directors have announced the project will be realized in Los Angeles's Exposition Park.
Four months after George Lucas ditched plans to build his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago, concept designs by Ma Yansong for sites in Los Angeles and San Francisco have been unveiled.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has released new renderings of Swiss architect Peter Zumthor's design for their $600 million expansion.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.