These initiatives on state ballots will decide questions about rent control, property tax, and urban development.

Many architects in California regularly take on the challenge of experimenting with alternative construction methods.

Los Angeles–based architecture firm Tag Front faces the future of downtown living with an apartment that melds the compactness of...

This impenetrable getaway beautifully mixes form and function.

Students dream up modular structures for camping around California parklands.

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with these forward-thinking designs by Chinese firms.

Camouflaged in a conservative setting, this Melbourne home for a foodie family centers on a spacious kitchen with perforated...

Prefab builders across the USA are striving for smarter, faster ways to make homes.

Rerucha Studio adds a wall of glass and a Japanese-inspired garden to Art Collector’s Retreat in Bellevue.

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Laser cutting and its fellow industrial cousins, plasma cutting and water-jet cutting, might sound inaccessible and intimidating,...

KieranTimberlake, Lake|Flato, and Bensonwood are harnessing decades of homebuilding experience to offer “no compromise” prefab...

Asked to design a space for an art collector whose body and walls were already covered in decoration, architect Thom Faulders...

Entrepreneur Kristen Lewis found her ideal family vacation home in Borrego Springs, a dark-sky community nestled in a...

This Danish home’s IKEA kitchen gets a fresh look thanks to Muller Van Severen’s inspired pairing of marble and polyethylene.

So you bought a little art and you kinda wonder what’s in your—and its—future. Read on.

I was down visiting some friends in Santa Cruz, California, a couple weekends back, and one of my hosts--a friend working on his...

Stretching along a waterfront site in Turks and Caicos, this holiday home by Rick Joy is defined by concrete forms, open...

We ask the newly elected urbanist and organizer about his ongoing fight for workers’ rights, affordable housing, and a Green New...