Los Angeles architecture
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Project • By Whipple Russell Architects • Private Houses
Bonhill
Designed for the contemporary Brentwood lifestyle, Bonhill brings together open plan living, abundant natural light, and a central outdoor pool terrace at the heart of its design.
From the street, a visually textured exterior of stacked stone, warm wood, and expansive glass beneath deep roof overhangs lends the home a sense of sheltered privacy, while it remains remarkably open.
Inside, the design is exceptionally cohesive. A library, living room, dining room, bar, and kitchen all unfold within a series of interconnected spaces, while a concealed workspace, walk-in pantry, and private guest suite are incorporated into the surrounding plan.
A sculptural wine wall and strategically placed light well add visual interest an... More
News • News • 11 Sep 2023
Kadre Architects transforms former run-down LA motel into vibrant housing for homeless families
Los Angeles-based Kadre Architects has transformed a run-down motel complex in the San Fernando Valley into a colorful and welcoming residential space for homeless families, especially single mothers. The former Woodland Hills motel now provides one hundred transitional housing units for families who are experiencing homelessness. The project is a collaboration with LA-based charity “Hope the Mission” and Los Angeles County.
Kadre Architects
“The Woodlands” is part of Project Homekey 2.0, an emergency California-wide initiative in which dilapidated, underused hotels are purchased and rapidly transformed into both interim and permanent housing for people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. (Los... More
News • News • 12 Jun 2023
RO54 is a streamlined LA home with an air of science fiction
Perched on a hilltop in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, “RO54” is an ultra modern family home with a streamlined futuristic profile. Designed by LA-based Arshia Architects, RO54 is positioned to take advantage of views across the Pacific Ocean and the Los Angeles basin.
Renee Parkhurst
Paul Vu
Arshia Architects
The residence sits gently on top of a buried podium, replicating the pre-exiting natural topography. “This hollow post-war neighborhood has been transforming gradually, overtaken by recent developments that rely on size, rather than spatial quality,” says Arshia Architects. “The concept set out to reduce the massing of a rather large project in order for it to l... More
Project • By Bittoni Architects • Private Houses
Bay Street
A radical remodel of a modest beach bungalow originally built in 1913 and relocated in 1920 to its current location, blocks from the ocean.
Taiyo Watanabe
Taiyo Watanabe
The exterior of the Bay Street Residence remains true to form, preserving its inherent street presence. The interior has been fully renovated to create a streamline connection between each interior space and the rear yard. A 2-story rear addition provides a master suite and deck above while simultaneously creating a unique space below that serves as a terraced indoor dining and living area open to the outdoors.
Taiyo Watanabe
Taiyo Watanabe
The interior has been fully renovated to create a streamline connection between each interior space and the rear... More
News • News • 4 Nov 2022
Bergmeyer unveil a brick-and-mortar tasting room with a modern boho vibe for Truly Hard Seltzer brand in Los Angeles
Bergmeyer is a design collaborative known for creative partnerships that bring architects, branding experts, interior and graphic designers and strategists together to create unique, carefully positioned, and visually arresting spaces. They recently unveiled Truly LA, the Truly Hard Seltzer brand’s first brick-and-mortar Tasting Room, located in iconic downtown Los Angeles. The space draws on the historic artistic and modern boho vibe of the area and offers guests a fully immersive experience, combining innovative and surprising flavour experiences in tasting flights and seasonal share plates, accompanied by performances from local musicians, artists, and comics. Guests are able to select from ten exclusive new... More
Project • By Assembledge • Private Houses
Oakdell Residence
Nestled in the hills of the Fryman Canyon Estates area in Studio City, California, the Oakdell Residence is a remodel and addition to an existing 1960’s mid-century home.
Originally built in 1957, the one-story, 3,900 square feet property remained a kind of a midcentury time capsule until rejuvenated by Assembledge+.
Lisa Romerein
Lisa Romerein
At the heart of the original design was a saw-tooth floor plan that offered views in multiple directions. However, beyond this core, the floor plan was congested and connectivity throughout the home and site was limited. The client’s wish was to create an airy and light space throughout maximizing views of the surrounding landscape while drawing on the home’s... More
News • News • 18 Jun 2022
L.A. style with intimate indoor to outdoor living concept defines the Nova House by Productora
In the Echo Park neighbourhood of Los Angeles, Nova House by Productora doubles the size of an existing house. Leaving the existing bedroom suite and flexible studio/garage largely intact, the addition is a square space divided into three structural bays of approximately 10’0’’. Sloping ceilings with exposed wooden structure and clerestory windows provide an intricate variety of interconnected spaces between new and old.
Onnis Luque
Viewed from the garden, the house has a distinctive saw-tooth silhouette with a regular spacing of openings. The previously existing bedroom by contrast is set back behind a covered patio to provide shielding from the southern sun. Together with a new shaded patio outside of the kit... More
News • News • 20 Dec 2021
Brooks + Scarpa’s Magnolia Hill presents a model for more compact, responsible living in Los Angeles
On the site of a former gas station in Los Angeles, Magnolia Hill is a 19-unit mixed-use multi-family building comprising three storeys of flats and a double-height mezzanine loft apartments. Designed by Brooks + Scarpa, the project is a model for more compact, responsible living.
Tara Wujcik
A perforated aluminium façade creates the effect of an ever-changing screen that sparkles in the sun and then glows at night. The perforated nature of the façade also serves to enhance privacy, while still allowing for views outwards, good quality natural light and the site’s prevailing winds. Perforated aluminium is also used strategically on screens to the east, west, and north-facing walls, lending the exterior a... More
News • News • 2 Dec 2021
Apple at the Grove by Foster + Partners embraces the progressive spirit of Los Angeles
Adjacent to Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, this latest Apple store by Foster + Partners is situated in The Grove, a famous open-air shopping and entertainment complex that is one of Los Angeles’ most popular visitor destinations.
Nigel Young / Foster+Partners
Exceptionally spacious and light-filled, the design brings together the spirit of the film and entertainment industry and the art of illusion within a soaring store volume that is amplified by a feature mirrored ceiling. The mirrored ceiling is made from a special fabric that gives the illusion that the 60-foot height volume is taller than its already impressive height.
Nigel Young / Foster+Partners
Alongside this, five-foot-wide linear roof lights allo... More
News • News • 10 Sep 2021
OMA draws from adjacent dome interior to wrap Audrey Irmas Pavilion with 1,230 GFRC hexagonal panels
Renowned architecture practice OMA are nearing completion on the Audrey Irmas Pavilion, a 55, 000 square foot addition to the Wilshire Boulevard Temple's downtown Los Angeles Campus, L.A's oldest Jewish congregation. The project marks OMA's first cultural project in LA as well as OMA New York's first religious commission.
Jason O’Rear
Named for its lead donor, life-long congregation member Audrey Irmas who launched the capital campaign for the project in 2015 with a record breaking $30 million dollar gift, the Pavilion is expected to open in January 2022 on Hollywood's famous Wilshire Boulevard.
Jason O’Rear
OMA won the bid from a strong field of competitors in 2015 and spent the next six yea... More
News • News • 27 Jun 2021
Apple celebrates the legacy of Los Angeles architecture with their unveiling of Apple Tower Theater
Apple has unveiled its newest retail location at the historic Tower Theater in downtown Los Angeles. The historic theater is now one of Apple’s most significant building restoration projects undertaken to date.
Courtesy of Apple
Originally home to the first theater in Los Angeles wired for film with sound, the building was designed by renowned motion-picture theater architect S. Charles Lee in 1927. The theater however closed and has gone unused since 1988. It is perhaps fitting that the building’s legacy of technological innovation is revived today with Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and Mac, each of which has transformed modern-day filmmaking, photography and music composition.
Courtesy of Apple
Apple collaborated wit... More