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earthship, tres piedras, new mexico, renegade architect michael reynolds. atlantis earthship

Your Next Home Could Be an Earthship

academy museum of motion pictures, flop, los angeles, entrance, wilshire boulevard

How the Academy Museum Misses the Mark

scott and angela uriu, uriu architecture, altadena eaton fire, rebuild

‘We Get to Start from Scratch’

eichler homes in the san francisco bay area

The Cult of Eichler

5 architects, frank gehry influence

5 Leading Architects on Gehry’s Influence

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exterior of frank gehry’s santa monica home, featuring corrugated metal, exposed plywood, and chain link fencing—an iconic example of deconstructivist architecture.

Alta Q&A: ‘I’m Interested in Delivering’

the judge harry pregerson interchange opened in 1993 to connect the 105 and the 110, rising 130 feet above the watts and athens communities, its a marvel of freeway architecture

L.A. Freeways: The Five-Stack Beauty

sea ranch chapel

Sea Ranch Chapel: Tiny House of the Spirits

california mini malls, illustration

Mini-Malls: Our Champs-Élysées

hangar one, at nasa ames moffett federal airfield in mountain view, soars nearly 200 feet high and contains 300,000 square feet of cavernous, column free space

Hangar One: A Cathedral to the Future

san bernardino, californiak, afternoon sun shines through one of the 14 alcoves at the curtain of courage memorial that is dedicated to the 14 san bernardino employees murdered on december 2, 2015 inscribed on the stone benches are messages from family members of the victims this one is for sierra simone sunshine clayborn, reckoning with the west, culture, monuments

For Whom the Monuments Rise

rindge dam, land, reckoning with the west, built in the 1920s, malibu creek in the santa monica mountains

Malibu’s Zombie Dam

jason foster, president and chief operating officer of destination crenshaw, crenshaw boulevard, los angeles, reckoning with the west, people

Crenshaw at the Crossroads

cheyla selena, left, and brenden tull, residents of the sunwise co op house, pull weeds in their yard at village homes in davis

Village Homes’s Utopian Model

gimme shelter, chowder, alcatraz

What Could’ve Been: Unbuilt Graveyard

gimme shelter, chowder, zoning laws, public art

Build Me Up, Zoning Laws

michael lehrer, chandler boulevard bridge home village, north hollywood

A Tiny House Alternative

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gimme shelter, chowder, key, doorknob

Leveling with Landlords

nms lincoln

Multifamily Homes Reshape L.A.

maria and jose garibay will receive a lower purchase price in exchange for helping build their new home in orosi

How to Grow Good Housing

gimme shelter, chowder, animal crossing

Animal Crossing

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gimme shelter, chowder, adu

Know Before You Build: California ADUs

architect jason mclennan

Regenerative Design for All?

electric house illustration

Electrification for Beginners

orange county museum of art exterior

Thom Mayne’s Stunning New Museum

gateway, los angeles

Will U.S. Cities Rise to the Vertical Challenge?

heidi zuckerman, director and ceo of the orange county museum of art

Now Open: The Big Orange

built into the slopes of a mountain, with sweeping views of los angeles from downtown to the hollywood sign and beyond, dodger stadium offers a definitive perspective on the city

Dodger Stadium Is the Belle of the Ball

violist katie liu rehearses with a string quartet on an outdoor terrace at the colburn school

A New Concert Hall for the Colburn School

william wurster, thomas church, alvar aalto

San Francisco’s Debt to Finland

liberty canyon proposed wildlife crossing

How Did the Mountain Lion Cross the Road?

alvin huang

Trailblazer: Alvin Huang

patricia lincourt, charlie across the north atwater bridge, one of two new multiuse spans over the los angeles river

Something’s Afoot in the Big City