A celebration of the best in world-class architecture and architects. From the most architectural homes, architectural landmarks and architectural design to case studies from all around world to profiles about and with the incredible people that build and design them.
From optimizing a slender lot and updating a 1950’s ranch home, to creating an instant annex and enlarging a cozy Craftsman, DIGS presents four different takes on maximizing space in the modern age.
The Caverhill Residence, which is nestled meticulously atop a tree-flanked ridge, the highest one, on a private drive just above Trousdale Estates is a bona fide sculpture in space designed by famed architect Zoltan Pali.
Master architect Richard Neutra, a founding father of the modern architectural movement. Richard Neutra was born in Vienna in 1892, he would become a son of Los Angeles, articulating through his designs a blueprint that would serve as the thematic springboard for many who followed.
In 2007, mere months before the nation’s economic collapse, husband-and-wife design team Johann Pauwen and Michaele Simmering launched Kalon Studios in Los Angeles—a manifestly risky move, given the climate of the times, but one of solid resolve indicating a gut-level trust in collaboration and vision. In the years since, the company has merged its makers’ passion for contemporary design, simplicity and uncompromising sustainability into honest, functional furnishings.
Through all its incarnations, Hollyhock House remains quintessential to Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural legacy in LA, and to the city itself. Put another way, Herr says, it “fits comfortably within its era and the urban fabric of a city that is as real as it is ephemeral.”
The new, crisp white home on 1617 Hermosa Avenue—steps from the action on the beach and Pier Avenue—neatly exemplifies an aesthetic that’s been cropping up throughout the South Bay.
Raju Chhabria proves that bigger is better in Hermosa with breezy, white-on-white spaces and ample coastline views
Hollywood Icon and Architect to the stars John Elgin Woolf gets his close up with a new exhibit at Palos Verdes Art Center, a rare opportunity to share a large collection of Woolf’s works, one of the originators of Hollywood Regency style.
And, on a mellow residential street in Rancho Palos Verdes, the finishing touches were being put on a flat-level home designed by a prominent architect of the day, Pierre Koenig.
