Design in Los Angeles

This jagged colossus of a building is mostly held together by an enormous concrete exoskeleton.

Anza led the first Spanish settlers from Mexico to Monterey, California in the 1770s.

A Romanesque sanctuary of calm amid the bustle of downtown Los Angeles.

A cake-themed art installation tucked away in historic Chinatown.

This house turned museum chronicles the life and work of Richard Neutra.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

This forgotten Frank Lloyd Wright house is an architectural marvel at the end of a sleepy residential street.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

Historic house-museum dedicated to the revolutionary gay graphic artist Tom of Finland.