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Montalba Architects adds Japanese garden to California Nobu

August 25, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Local studio Montalba Architects has created a lush Japanese-inspired garden patio for diners at a Nobu hotel and restaurant in Silicon Valley. Located adjacent to the Nobu Hotel Palo Alto, which was opened in 2020, the second phase of the project includes the addition of the open-air dining concept. Tucked between the hotel and a

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Tyreus Design Studio wraps open-air Sonoma farm house in wood

August 25, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

California’s Tyreus Design Studio has completed a timber-clad house and entertainment barn renovation on a farm in Sonoma. Architect Christie Tyreus of Sausalito-based Tyreus Design Studio designed the 2,400-square foot (220-square metre) farm house and 3,000-square foot (280-square metre) outdoor hospitality structure in 2021. The 100-acre ranch features one of the largest organic food farms

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Montalba Architects prioritises connection to nature at Manhattan Beach House

August 24, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

A slender pool lined with a “vertical garden” features in an oceanfront home in southern California designed by US studio Montalba Architects. The house is located within a dense, beachside neighbourhood in Manhattan Beach outside of Los Angeles. Designed for a couple who are long-time residents of the area, the dwelling is imbued with a

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And And And Studio lifts Silver Lake Tree House above Los Angeles site

August 18, 2023 Jenna McKnight 0

Architecture firm And And And Studio has created a stucco-clad, single-level home for a family of six that is raised up to create a “treehouse-like effect”. The Silver Lake Tree House – which takes its name from the Los Angeles neighbourhood in which it is located – sits on a sloped property in a cul-de-sac. Local firm

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Kelly Wearstler designs Los Angeles bar to feel “like it has been there for ages”

August 17, 2023 Jane Englefield 0

Interior designer Kelly Wearstler paired clay plaster walls with Moroccan cement tiles at this eclectic cocktail bar in the Downtown LA Proper hotel. Named after Mexico’s national flower, the Dahlia bar features a blushing interior that was designed to echo the rest of the hotel – also created by Wearstler. The designer looked to the

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John Friedman and Alice Kimm include dining room crane in Los Angeles house

August 16, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Architects John Friedman and Alice Kimm have stacked a white concrete mass with sinuous cutouts into a hillside as a home for their family in Los Angeles, complete with a yellow crane in the kitchen and a pink accessory dwelling unit. Named the JArzm house – using the first initial of each family member –

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Anonymous Architects embeds concrete house into Los Angeles hillside

July 28, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Local studio Anonymous Architects has completed a residence with a concrete plinth that cantilevers off a mountainside in Los Angeles. The Olancha Drive house was finished in 2022 in the Mount Washington district of Northeast Los Angeles. It was designed in response to the site’s steep angle – which reaches 45 degrees in some areas

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Joanne Koch adds cantilevered deck during Sea Ranch cabin renovation

July 27, 2023 Kate Mazade 0

Architect Joanne Koch has refurbished a 1970s wood cabin located in the iconic Sea Ranch development in California into an Airbnb destination in the forest. Originally constructed in 1974 by William Turnbull, Jr, the 1,200-square foot (110-square metre) cabin was renovated in 2022 by Joanne Koch, who leads Berkeley-based studio Koch Architects, as “a bridge

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Largest earthquake test for mass-timber tower successful in California

July 25, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

US architecture studio Lever Architecture and a team of researchers have successfully tested the earthquake-resistant capabilities of a 10-storey, mass-timber building in California. Carried out early this year, the test featured a massive hydraulic table to prove the resiliency of a skyscraper constructed out of engineer timber against seismic magnitudes similar to 6.7 and 7.7 earthquakes.

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Tree-like trellis with photovoltaic panels covers outdoor workspace in Silicon Valley

July 24, 2023 Ellen Eberhardt 0

Oakland-based landscape office Hood Design Studio has created two “treehouses” covered by an expansive photovoltaic trellis on the campus of a software company in Silicon Valley. Located on a four-acre site between two buildings, Hood Design Studio designed the project to provide an outdoor working space for employees of the software company NVIDIA. Two elevated,

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