Los Angeles, California

Places To See

L.A. Theatre
Ennis-Brown House
Hollyhock House
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Getty Research Institute
Los Angeles County Arboretum
The Standard
Los Angeles Convention Center
Heath Los Angeles
Los Angeles Central Library
Autry National Center
Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMOA)
Redcat
La Cienega Design Quarter
The Huntington
Best of Italy Designer Kitchens
bulthaup LA Showroom
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
The Standard Downtown
SCI-Arc Gallery
Figueroa Hotel
Blue Velvet
Welcome Hunters
Katsuya Downtown L.A.
Mountain Bar
Ooga Booga
Seven Grand
Ford & Ching
Cole's
Cafe Stella
El Prado
ReForm School
Materials & Applications
Mohawk General Store
Lamill Coffee Boutique
Skylight Books
Gingergrass
Undefeated
Cinerama Dome
SLS Hotel
Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
Space 15 Twenty
Pizzeria Mozza
Animal Restaurant
Avalon Hotel of Beverly Hills
Sprinkles Cupcakes
Fitzsu
Silent Movie Theatre
Mollusk
Small World Books
Gjelina
French 50s-60s
SPF:a Gallery
Mandrake
Father's Office
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Chango Coffee Shop
ddc
Machine Project
Tortoise
All Shades of Green
Tufenkian Los Angeles
Farmlab
The Aratani/Japan America Theatre
Edward Cella Art and Architecture
Fowler Musum at UCLA
Andlab
KitchenPlus, Inc.
Hammer Museum
Cisco Home
FIX Gallery
Architecture and Design Museum-LA
Pann's
Corky's
Bob's Big Boy
Simply Wholesome
Encounter Restaurant

Articles

"Living in a Modern Way" at LACMA

For their part in the citywide "Pacific Standard Time" exhibition, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has just opened “California Design 1930–1965: Living in a…
Lucky's Break

With a very limited budget and no construction experience, Lucky and Kim Diaz overhauled a wreck of a house into a sweet, 1,100-square-foot Los Angeles home with just $55,000 and a whole lot of…
Light Box

For Tad Beck, making a home out of a stolid, windowless warehouse meant opening it up from the inside out.
Echo Logical

Los Angeles is not all mini-malls and highways. As Eric Garcetti, president of the City Council, shows, it is eminently possible to live green in the City of Angels. By putting solar power and…
Sun Mun Way Cool

In Los Angeles, California, a family of four inhabits a polychrome fantasia in the heart of Chinatown. Formerly a restaurant, punk rock night club, and furniture warehouse, the Berniers’ loft is…
Architectural Adventure

When people ask architects Apurva Pande and Chinmaya Misra where they live, they never get a straightforward answer. The couple's home lies at the end of a cul-de-sac somewhere between Culver City…
Level Best

Los Angeles architect Ray Kappe built a multilevel house for his family back in 1967, and the results still resonate today.
Los Angeles, California

Though Los Angeles offers Lindsay Lohan sightings at Pinkberry and addresses on L.Ron Hubbard Way, Dwell explores a different side of the city with land use interpreter Matthew Coolidge.
Courtyard of Appeal

Like so many L.A. stories, the tale of the Courtyard House begins with a lucky break. One day in 2001, Thomas Robertson got a call from a friend he hadn’t seen in ages. The friend told him that his…
Drumming Up Design

Brotherly love takes many forms; in the case of Rob and Eric Brill, it’s a shared passion for modernism. Rob, the younger of the two and a rock musician, recently completed the second of two…
Pallotta TeamWorks Headquaters

Inside a 47,000-square-foot warehouse, Clive Wilkinson built a veritable campus for Pallotta TeamWorks, a national charity-events company.
Well Thawed Out

At the end of 2000, Tryggvi Thorsteinsson and Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir, Icelandic natives and partners in the Santa Monica–based design firm Minarc, bought what was essentially a teardown in the West…
Taking His Own Advice

When Greg Reitz was ten years old, he was already so worried about the state of the planet that, without prompting from his parents, he spent his allowance to join Greenpeace.
LEEDing the Way

One day last April there was great excitement on Highland Avenue, a quiet, hilly street (on which this writer happens to live) of Craftsman bungalows and 1960s apartment buildings in the Ocean Park…
Kyle Schuneman on Masculine Design

I recently talked over the phone with Kyle Schuneman, interior and set designer of Live Well Designs in Los Angeles. In the course of our conversation he again and again argued for men taking a…
The Exhibitionists

In Los Angeles, Materials & Applications puts design theory into open-to-the-public practice.
LA's Restored Overlook Park

This week LA unveiled its newest park, a 50-acre greenspace that sits 500 feet above the city just southwest of Downtown, on a plot of land that was historically part of the Baldwin Hills oil…
Compound Addition

A pair of environmentally attuned architects combined adjoining properties in a Los Angeles canyon to house their modernist menagerie.
The W Hollywood Residences

A transit-oriented mixed-use development in image-obsessed Hollywood? You bet your Botox. This Dwell on Design partner delivers something the hood's been craving: Sustainable, high-density glitz.
Way Out West

Leaving the bustle of Washington, D.C., architect Joe Day and his wife return to California and discover that life in a single-family dwelling isn't as isolated as they had feared.
Domestic Democracy

In a code-happy L.A. suburb, how do you break the mold without breaking the law? Architects Alice Fung and Michael Blatt steer clear of anarchy with a little democratic design.
Mutual Fulfilment

In Santa Monica, architect and activist Cory Buckner is working to preserve the living monuments of L.A.'s mid-century-modern past, including her own home by A. Quincy Jones.
True Hollywood Story

For over seventy years, through 7,000 photography sessions, and with 70,000 negatives, Julius Shulman captured the elusive spirit of architecture with an unerring eye and indefatigable character. …
Cutting It Up

Los Angeles–based architecture firm Tag Front faces the future of downtown living with an apartment that melds the compactness of a studio with the spaciousness of a loft and finds that…
Two Houses Are Better Than One

Or is one house better than two? For Santa Monica–based architect Jesse Bornstein and his family, both are true.
An Atypical Tree House

When a 40-year-old pine tree fell over at the rear of a Brentwood estate in Los Angeles a few years back, its owner, an art lover and a philanthropist, let it lie. The tree revived itself…