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Why Are So Many Car Commercials Shot on This L.A. Bridge?

For answers to more of your burning questions, visit the Ask Chris archive. Q: There’s a white concrete bridge where all the big carmakers seem to shoot their commercials. Why there? A: Chris Hoffman,...

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L.A.’s Shuttered Movie Theaters and Venues Are Using Their Marquees to Speak...

Movie theaters across Los Angeles were abruptly closed on March 15 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Soon after, independent cinemas and venues across the city used this pivotal moment to spread...

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Design Pro Emily Henderson on How to Balance Comfort and Style When You’re...

Last year when Los Feliz-based design expert Emily Henderson revealed the dramatic renovations to the 1960s Lake Arrowhead A-frame home that she and her husband, Brian, purchased in 2017, the millions...

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This Man Has Spent Quarantine Making Ridiculously Meticulous Miniatures of...

Kieran Wright has been in Los Angeles for only three years but has fallen head over heels for his adopted hometown’s landmarks. The 28-year-old from New Zealand spent this spring and summer...

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Will the Pandemic Change the Face of Los Angeles Architecture Forever?

In only a decade, downtown architecture and design firm Omgivning (that’s Swedish for “environment or ambience,” according to the firm’s website) has put its stamp on about 400 L.A.-area buildings. The...

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Taking a Closer Look at the Lasting Genius of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams

For photographer Janna Ireland, the essence of legendary mid-century Los Angeles architect Paul Revere Williams is in the details. In her new book of photography, Regarding Paul R. Williams: A...

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We Asked Top Architects for Bold Solutions to L.A.’s Homeless Crisis. Here’s...

Long before the pandemic hit Los Angeles, homelessness was widely regarded as one of the city’s most urgent problems—an ugly fact of life in one of the world’s wealthiest cities. As home prices and...

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Fire at a Historically Black Church in Venice Renews Community Cries for...

A fire was reported overnight at 685 Westminster Avenue in Venice, the former site of the First Baptist Church of Venice, a historically Black and Latino congregation, located in the Oakwood...

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Southern California’s Roadside Architecture in All Its Glowing, Midcentury Glory

Text by Chris Nichols ❉ Photography by Ashok Sinha Ashok Sinha racks up a lot of miles on his rental car when he comes to visit his family in Los Angeles. For the last four years, the New York-based...

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How the Eye-Catching iT House Became the “It” House of the High Desert

Living in the high desert isn’t for the faint of heart. The wild, untamed landscape contrasts starkly with the manicured golf courses and angular architecture of Palm Springs, its neighbor to the...

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