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California
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Profiles
For Lovers Unite, Architecture is About Lived Experience
The firm is known in Los Angeles for its creative restaurant designs and home rebuilds after the city's 2025 fires.
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Altadena’s Rebuild Begins with Listening
Led by SoCal NOMA, the Altadena Rebuild Coalition is guiding fire-impacted residents through recovery by prioritizing empathy, coordination, and community.
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CannonDesign Revitalizes the Gregory Bateson Building
The renovation of a landmark project by Sim Van der Ryn shows what sustainable strategies have stood the test of time—and what ideas have fallen by the wayside.
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Edith Heath’s Tiled Facade at the Norton Simon Museum Gets a Proper Restoration
In collaboration with Heath Ceramics, Architectural Resources Group helmed the project timed to the fiftieth anniversary of the Pasadena institution.
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Pallet’s Tiny Home Villages Build a Bridge to Permanent Housing
The Washington-based company creates rapid response shelter villages that can be constructed in a matter of days.
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Laura Guido-Clark Wants Designers to Stop Being Afraid of Color
METROPOLIS sits down with designer and color expert Laura Guido-Clark to learn more about her nonprofit Project Color Corps and color methodology Love Good Color.
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Studio Schicketanz Brings Sensitive, Sustainable Design to the Monterey Bay
The California-based firm is attuned to creating environmentally responsive designs for new homes and historic restorations.
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Creating a New Template For the Vet Experience
Design, Bitches' clinics for growing veterinary chain Modern Animal benefit both humans and their four-legged creatures.
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A Richard Neutra Penthouse in Your Own Backyard?
The Spanish manufacturer Kettal is reviving a design by the California Modernist, offering it in a penthouse and pavilion format.
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When the Great Recession Hit, Studio Blitz Saw an Opportunity
Melissa and Seth Hanley worked closely with clients to define a design practice that moves beyond the basics to address the larger why.
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Facing a Limited Budget, This Community College Still Built a Net-Zero Facility
The design-build project—with architects BNIM and builders Level 10—features extensive passive ventilation driven by thermal chimneys.
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Sliding Shades and Natural Ventilation Help This San Diego Office Aim for LEED Platinum
Designed by architecture firm BNIM, the roughly 53,000-square-foot office also eschewed surface parking in favor of pedestrian spaces.
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On the California Coast, Restaurant Jeune et Jolie Blends Classic French Design with a SoCal Feel
Designed by L.A.–based firm Bells + Whistles and located in Carlsbad, the restaurant respects its local vernacular while using elements of 20th-century French hospitality design.
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NOMA-Nominated: Banc of California Stadium by Gensler Los Angeles
Barbara Bouza, co-managing director of Gensler’s Los Angeles office, explains how her firm’s project served the local community as well as the city at large.
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Bestor Architecture Designs “Luxurious Informality” at Pizzeria Near Santa Barbara
Bettina, located the scenic resort town of Montecito, blends L.A.-based architect Barbara Bestor's brand of California cool with upscale coastal chic.
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L.A.’s Milla Chocolates Pairs Its Luxurious Sweets with a Restrained Jewel Box Interior
Custom-blended dark teal walls and tubular motifs repeated throughout Milla Chocolates incorporate the boutique founders' love of Swedish design and 1920s Bauhaus styling.
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Facing a Tight Budget, a California School Transformed Its Architecture With Color
The 800-student Caliber ChangeMakers Academy, built for $144 per square foot, saw architects, a nonprofit, and students collaborate on a vibrant color palette.
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Miller Hull Leverages Indoor-Outdoor Design for Del Mar, California’s New Civic Center
The building—which includes a town hall and city offices—features a 13,000-square-foot town commons that can host events and gatherings, such as the city's weekly farmer’s market.
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This Napa Valley House Blends Modern Design with Farmhouse Vernacular
Located on a 17-acre former vineyard, the project—designed by Field Architecture—combines steel, concrete, and glass with pitched roofs, overhangs, and other barn-like features.
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Ennead Designs Sustainable Home for Stanford’s New Knight-Hennessy Scholarship Program
The 18,000-square-foot headquarters features mass timber, a rainwater capture system, and landscaping catered to an endangered salamander species.