The story of the Flip Flop House began with a chance encounter in a camera shop.

The history of aviation in Long Beach, California, is legendary—from the landing, on its sandy shores, of the first transcontinental flight to its female-powered aircraft production during World War II and its more recent output of mammoth commercial and military jets.

Concrete can wear many faces. In the wrong hands it goes cold and clinical, the stuff of a thousand Brutalist eyesores.

Driving to Big Sur on coast-hugging Highway 1 — say, south from San Francisco — you have to be cautious.

Two retirees approached architect Heather Roberge, principal of Los Angeles-based firm Murmur, to design their dream house'they wanted a quirky dwelling that connected to the surrounding landscape.

On a tough site, a public school touts its forward-thinking mission with design, while providing a model for sustainability.

A family in Mill Valley, California had Japanese firm Koji Tsutsui & Associates design a structure that would function as both an office and a home so the family could spend more time together.