You can find pretty much anything in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles: a pair of limited-edition sneakers, an obscure gourmet cheese, or a copy of The Da Vinci Code in Mandarin.

A modern residence perched on a Southern California hillside aims for LEED Platinum.

In Los Angeles, where an average house lists for around $700,000, every inch of the city’s 469 square miles is coveted—almost.

Like shooting stars against a night sky—or a glowing game of pick-up sticks—thin rods of white light dynamically charge the black-box auditorium of the Billy Wilder Theater in the Hammer Museum at UCLA.

To the designers at the Los Angeles–based firm Electroland, modern life is a video game.

In Los Angeles, a city known for its dearth of public spaces, architects have expressed the issues of privacy and transparency in the home in often-unusual ways, typically motivated by a perceived break with architectural tradition.