A Transformation in Pacoima, Los Angeles, Reveals the Potential of the City's Overlooked Alleys
Led by a group of local organizations and designers, the project replaces a previously hazardous alley with play areas, public art, and native plantings.
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Beyond the Wheel: BZIPPY Challenges Conventions in Clay
Bari Ziperstein’s socially and historically informed practice helps explain the current renaissance of ceramic furniture in contemporary interiors.
Landscape Architecture Has a Labor Acknowledgement Problem
To better acknowledge, respect, and compensate laborers, landscape design firm Terremoto calls for a fundamental reimagining of how professional practice is structured.
Los Angeles’s Standard Plan Program for ADUs Takes Aim at the Housing Crisis
In response to the growing popularity of ADUs as a way to boost affordability, the city’s plan includes 20 pre-approved designs contributed by 14 firms.
Only Way Is Up Transforms a 1920s Los Angeles Loft
Amanda Gunawan and Joel Wong of Only Way Is Up developed their contracting skills and launched a design-build arm of their firm along the way.
Gigi’s Brings Intimacy and Comfort to Post-COVID Dining
The Los Angeles restaurant designed by Andrew Cosbie creates a convivial atmosphere with the help of local muralist Andie Dinkin.
A New Series of Talks is Shedding Light on the Impact of Architect Paul R. Williams
A new series of talks is underscoring the importance of work by Hollywood's first black starchitect.
Earthy Luxury Is on Display at the Flamingo Estate Harvest Shop
Architectural designer Dutra Brown and ceramic artist Alex Reed's collaboration brings to life the vision of Richard Christiansen's buzzy L.A. property and lifestyle brand.
A Home in L.A. Has an Introverted Facade, but Exuberant Interior
Unlike its neighbors, this Los Angeles residence by And And And Studio turns a cool face to the street but, through repetition of simple arches, is eloquent on the inside.
The LADG’s Highland Park Ranch-House Redux
A series of structures built around a midcentury home in Los Angeles offers a contemporary update on classic California living.
Reimagining Community at Treehouse Co-Living in Hollywood
Soler Architecture and interior and landscape designer Sean Knibb shape a new model of contemporary communal living with Treehouse Hollywood.
The Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios at UCLA Offer a Lesson in Pragmatism and Creativity
Johnston Marklee adapted existing warehouses in Culver City, Los Angeles into a compound of art studios, as well as production, exhibition, and open spaces.
How Strip Malls Reflect the Diversity of Los Angeles’s Neighborhoods
A new book traces the development of this typology, whose ubiquity is unique to the West Coast metropolis.
This New Hollywood Landmark Is Best Understood Inside Out
The Los Angeles LGBT Center, designed by Leong Leong and KFA, packs heart and soul into its secondary spaces—on a nonprofit budget.
Barbara Bestor Rehabs an Unfinished Masterpiece by John Lautner
The Silvertop House was begun in 1956 but never completed to Lautner's original plans; Bestor consulted archives at the Getty to design a sensitive 21st-century extrapolation of his vision.
WTARCH's Elysian Fields Project Embraces L.A.'s Eclecticism
The structure features four completely different frontages that together channel the exuberant urban cacophony that Angelenos love and others don’t always understand.
Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects Designs a Resilient Beachfront House in Malibu
Dubbed House Noir, the house balances the desire for beachfront living with the modern realities of higher seas and bigger waves.
L.A.'s Flourishing Hospitality Industry Is Embracing Historic Architecture
Metropolis speaks with Historic Resources Group, 213 Hospitality, Design, Bitches, and other key hospitality designers and developers working in the city.
1100 Architect Channels Midcentury Modern Design For an L.A. Office
The firm’s most daring design deviation was to expose the modern HVAC systems along the building’s roofline; those elements now acts as a striking industrial crown.
A Slice of New York with a California Twist: Studio Jesse James Designs Roberta's Pizza in Los Angeles
Roberta's, a pizza pilgrimage destination in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, wanted a fresh, locally-attuned look for its Culver City outpost.
