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.
A new series of talks is underscoring the importance of work by Hollywood's first black starchitect.
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.
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.
A series of structures built around a midcentury home in Los Angeles offers a contemporary update on classic California living.
Soler Architecture and interior and landscape designer Sean Knibb shape a new model of contemporary communal living with Treehouse Hollywood.
Johnston Marklee adapted existing warehouses in Culver City, Los Angeles into a compound of art studios, as well as production, exhibition, and open spaces.
A new book traces the development of this typology, whose ubiquity is unique to the West Coast metropolis.
The Los Angeles LGBT Center, designed by Leong Leong and KFA, packs heart and soul into its secondary spaces—on a nonprofit budget.
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.
The structure features four completely different frontages that together channel the exuberant urban cacophony that Angelenos love and others don’t always understand.
Dubbed House Noir, the house balances the desire for beachfront living with the modern realities of higher seas and bigger waves.
Metropolis speaks with Historic Resources Group, 213 Hospitality, Design, Bitches, and other key hospitality designers and developers working in the city.
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.
Roberta's, a pizza pilgrimage destination in Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, wanted a fresh, locally-attuned look for its Culver City outpost.
A couple tapped the firm FreelandBuck to design a 1,500-square-foot house entirely located within the backyard of their existing residence.
Gold-Diggers, an East Hollywood bar/boutique hotel/recording studio, mines its eclectic past while stepping into the future of music.
Metropolis interviews Seleta Reynolds, general manager of L.A.’s Department of Transportation (LADOT), about modernizing transit and making cities more equitable.
Metropolis interviews the renowned Japanese architect, whose retrospective exhibition Futures of the Future is currently on view at Japan House Los Angeles.
The center—commissioned by 9 Dots, which operates a range of after-school and summer programs—has hosted teacher-training seminars, community workshops, and local non-profits.
Since opening last summer in the city's Crenshaw neighborhood, the firm's super-flexible open office has opened itself to local students, artists, and organizations.