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Kelly Wearstler create Ulla Johnson store that captures the “spirit of southern California”

November 30, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

American interior designer Kelly Wearstler has paired a towering tree with speckled burl wood panelling and vintage furniture by Carlo Scarpa at the Ulla Johnson flagship store in West Hollywood. Wearstler created the light-filled, two-storey shop as the flagship Los Angeles location for Johnson’s eponymous clothing brand. The duo worked together to envisage the sandy-hued

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“Do you like it, corporate overlords?” asks commenter

November 29, 2023 Rheanna Hopkins 0

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing an extension of media company Warner Bros’ headquarters in Burbank, completed by LA architecture studio Gehry Partners. The complex features two distinctive facades – glass intended to evoke the form of icebergs is interspersed with steel facades modelled on the art deco-style buildings of early Hollywood. “The

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Leddy Maytum Stacy revamps century-old university building in California

November 28, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Exterior louvres and faceted canopies are among the elements that US studio Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects has added to a 1920s academic facility, helping it achieve net-zero energy consumption, according to the studio. The Walker Hall project involved transforming a “vacant, seismically unsafe building” on the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) campus in northern

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Gehry Partners references icebergs and Hollywood for Warner Bros building

November 22, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

LA architecture studio Gehry Partners has completed the extension of media company Warner Bros’ headquarters in Burbank, which juxtaposes two distinctive facade styles. Called Second Century Burbank, the Gehry Partners-designed complex contains additional offices and studios for the headquarters, which is flanked by a major highway and the studio lot. Its name marks the celebration

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Wildfires diverting resources from earthquake-proofing buildings in California warns John Lesak

November 14, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Climate change is making it harder to prioritise retrofitting buildings to withstand earthquakes, architect John Lesak tells Dezeen in this interview for our Designing for Disaster series. Lesak, a principal at California architecture studio Page and Turnbull, has spent decades making older buildings more resilient to seismic activity. But he warned that rising costs associated with

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Fredrik Nilsson clads his Los Angeles house in oiled cedar

November 7, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Sweden-born architect Fredrik Nilsson has completed a wood-clad residence for his family that incorporates Scandinavian modernism and the “bohemian experimentalism of the LA Eastside”. Located in the Echo Park neighbourhood, the Grafton House sits on a sloped site with views of the surrounding hills and city skyline. Architect Fredrik Nilsson – of local firm Studio Nilsson

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Kelly Wearstler and Masastudio design California home as a “modern ruin”

November 3, 2023 Dan Howarth 0

This sprawling white concrete house in California is laid out like a “village” of open and enclosed spaces, with architecture by Masastudio and interiors by Kelly Wearstler. The home in Los Angeles was designed for clients who are avid art collectors, and have a deep appreciation for contemporary architecture and design. Having amassed a large

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Perkins&Will crowns Californian research centre with series of greenhouses

November 1, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

Architecture studio Perkins&Will has placed a series of greenhouses on top of a concrete structure to create this agricultural research centre in California. Called Riverside Plant Research One 1, the two-storey structure was created for the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) at the University of California Riverside campus east of Los Angeles. The

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HOK to design futuristic Berkeley Space Center at NASA Park

October 31, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

A team of master planners, including architecture studio HOK, has released plans for an office and research complex located within the NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley designed to “expand the frontiers of knowledge”. The project comprises 1.4 million square feet of office and research space and features University of California Berkley, developer SKS Partners, architecture

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Field Architecture clads flowing Sonoma house in copper

October 20, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

California studio Field Architecture designed this Sonoma Valley house out of a trio of fanning copper-clad pavilions with butterfly roofs. Named Madrone Ridge, the 4,920 square-foot (460 square-metre) house sits within the watershed of northern California’s Russian River. Dry in the summers with heavy rainfall in the winter, the area’s geography informed the design, as

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