From its record-breaking concrete foundation to its signature sail-shaped roof, the 73-story Wilshire Grand Center started a new era for downtown Los Angeles skyscrapers.
For the team behind the San Francisco Proper Hotel’s historic rehabilitation, the 1904 hotel’s most beautiful features also proved the most challenging.
The Alcatraz Photography Studio in Berkeley, Calif., transformed a century-old box of a building used as a Halloween costume store into an artistic space.
The design of Playa Jefferson Building E combines the industrial look of concrete on the lower level with a steel-and-wood “warehouse in the sky” above.
Taking a cue from computer chip design, NVIDIA’s triangular campus headquarters encourages collaboration among its 2,500 employees in 500,000 sq ft of space spread across two floors.