Foster + Partners   United States   Foster + Partners have unveiled the latest schemes, drawn up in conjunction with Arup, for California High-Speed Rail’s first four stations. These will be in the cities of Merced, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Hanford. Located close to the latter, Kings T

Manuel Cervantes Estudio   United States   The natural therapy center merges into a pine tree forest within the Indian Canyons of California. To respect the environment as much as possible, the project proposes a series of light timber pavilions without foundations that could damage the groun

OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture   United States   Located in the heart of downtown Santa Monica, the mixed-use complex achieves a strong interaction between interior program and exterior environment with a stepped building that creates terraces for a broad range of activities... [+]

Ball-Nogues Studio   United States   The wood structure, which was originally the formwork of another building of the studio, was used as a saltwater pool during one of the artistic events of High Desert Test Sites, and was later surrendered to the entropic strengths of the landscape. 

Frank Lloyd Wright   United States   Wright's californian years culminated with a series of four houses in which concrete block took on a preponderant role as a design element. The first of these was the Millard House, popularly known as ‘La Miniatura*(as is, in Spanish), and later came

Louis Kahn   United States   Tras asistir a una conferencia de Kahn, Jonas Salk, el inventor de la vacuna contra la poliomielitis, acudió con él a visitar los Laboratorios Richards y la viva impresión que le produjo la obra le ratifico en su decisión de encargarle el diseño del

James Stirling Michael Wilford   United States   This building is designed to be a campus landmark, seeking both to generate urbanity and increase the variety of pedestrian experiences. Meant to be highly visible from all directions, it will serve simultaneously as a gateway to the Ring Mall Plaza

The New York Times   Erin Griffith   Conor Dougherty   A former Goldman Sachs trader moved to the Bay Area to make it in tech. He ended up buying rural land with money from some of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest people.  What if you built a new city from the ground up? The idea has tantalized urban pla

The Wall Street Journal    Katherine Clarke   Actor Brad Pitt has paid $40 million for a roughly century-old home on a bluff in the Carmel Highlands along California’s central coast, according to public records and people familiar with the deal. Known as the D.L. James House, the property dates

The Guardian   Leslie Felperin   This stylish documentary explores the work of the photographer whose images of mid-century west coast architecture captured an aspirational moment.  This absorbing documentary from 2008 focuses on Julius Shulman (1910-2009), a photographer best known

Google has unveiled the proposal drawn up by the Copenhagen- and New York-based firm Bjarke Ingels Group for a second state-of-the art campus in Silicon Valley, this time in Moffett Park, in Sunnyvale, close to the company’s corporate headquarters at

The myth that Silicon Valley was born in the garages of some brilliant young individuals is the myth that explains the origin of what today are huge and all-powerful multinational corporations. And these technological enterprises now seek to have hea

Richard Ingersoll   The patronage of the Edgar J. Kaufmann, under the astute advice of their son Edgar, Jr., an architect and historian who trained with Frank Lloyd Wright, led to what are arguably the two most important domestic buildings in mid-20th century America: F

Rosemarie Haag Bletter   La arquitectura de Frank Gehry no puede catalogarse a la ligera de moderna o posmoderna; su obra permanece ajena a la censura de lo hecho a medida. La apariencia indómita de muchos de sus edificios irritan a quienes admiran los diseños arquitectónico

Jim Heimann   American Pop Architecture