Deep dives on cities, architecture, design, real estate, and urban planning. Part of The beginner’s guide to Los Angeles People who don’t know any better like to say Los Angeles has no seasons, but ...

Almost all of the above-ground parts of the 1926 Subway Terminal Building in Downtown Los Angeles were turned into fancy condos back in 2005, but the sliver of the structure that gives the place its ...

In the past decade, the wealthy seaside enclave of Malibu has been dubbed the “Rehab Riviera” and the “Lourdes of Luxury Rehab.” People from all over the world come to the city’s rehabs, often because ...

As a child, Glen Norman had a streetlight directly in front of his family’s house in Westchester. It was a simple concrete post-top model, crowned with an acorn-shaped luminaire. He remembers how, ...

Picture this: You arrive in Los Angeles on a shiny, newfangled train that never blows smoke. As you look out the window, you pass by vistas of vineyards and orange and lemon trees ringed by snowcapped ...

At first, it seems like a lovely mirage, a ghostly green plantation conjured by an overactive imagination. Surrounded by small, utilitarian industrial parks, the Louis Phillips Mansion on Pomona ...