If you're in Los Angeles this month, don't miss to check out the exhibition Go Figure by LA-based architect Ramiro Diaz-Granados/Amorphis that is currently on view at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Diaz-Granados will discuss the installation with SCI-Arc director Eric Owen Moss on Friday,…

Designed by John Kaliski Architects, in conjunction with Lawrence Moss & Associates, Landscape Architects, and Kimley-Horn & Associates, Civil Engineers, the Ocean Park Boulevard Complete Green Street recently broke ground on December 12, 2011. When completed in early 2013, it will be the longest complete…

Swiss design firm RAFAA has shared with us their entry to the invited competition for Ivanpah, a 392-megawatt solar thermal power facility currently being built by BrightSource Energy Inc in the Californian Mojave Desert. The project - which counts NRG Solar, Google and…

If you're in the Los Angeles area these days, we highly recommend to visit the excellent exhibition Rethink LA: Perspectives on a Future City, currently displayed at the Architecture and Design Museum on Wilshire Boulevard. The exhibition runs until September 4. Created…

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has unveiled the preliminary design for its expansion that will double the museum's exhibition and education space while enhancing the visitor experience and more deeply weaving the museum into the fabric of the city. The new building will both transform…

An ambitious zero-energy retrofit proposal for a downtown Los Angeles federal building has just won the first prize of the 8th Annual Next Generation Design Competition, presented by Metropolis magazine in partnership with the General Services Administration. The brief of the…

If you're in the LA area, don't miss the public forum at the A+D Museum tomorrow night, held by the Arch Is_ competition. The AIA Los Angeles chapter, organizer of this design competition, recently announced the winners of the 2011 edition which invited young…

San Francisco State University unveiled designs for the Mashouf Performing Arts Center, a 242,150 square foot state-of-the-art facility that will transform creative arts education and performing arts at SF State and throughout the region. The new performing arts center will house SF State's programs in theatre, music, dance and…

The University of Southern California’s School of Architecture is pleased to announce the winners of its First Annual Student Charette Competition, which is hosted by the program’s Architectural Guild. This group is the primary support system of the USC School of Architecture, and serves as…

Contract magazine has named Studio O+A principals Verda Alexander and Primo Orpilla as Designers of the Year for 2011. The magazine gives this award annually to individuals whose work and practice raise the standard for excellence in commercial design and exhibit tremendous potential for ongoing…