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Malibu's spectacular first beach house
In the days when their family owned all of Malibu, an heiress and a wannabe cowboy built themselves a seaside mansion covered in spectacular tilework. Malibu was eventually sold off piece by piece, but the Adamson House still stands.
Venice Beach wants to leave Los Angeles
The seaside neighborhood, once known for its weirdness and diversity, has gentrified into a wealthy tech enclave. As old and new residents fight for their visions of Venice, could secession from LA be next?
The colorful lighthouse keepers of Los Angeles
The Los Angeles County coast was a treacherous place until the first lighthouses were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s, bringing independent women, heartbroken widowers, drunks, and more to isolated blufftop posts.
In Glendale, an Adams Hill midcentury showpiece feels like home
In this edition of House Calls, meet Andrew, whose love for midcentury is everlasting. "Right now, [midcentury] is a trend that will ... go out of style again, but this is me. I’ll always be interested in midcentury," he says.
Is Frank Gehry finally building his dream home?
Construction is underway on two properties where the celebrity architect for years has talked about building his dream home. At the same time, his Los Angeles portfolio is growing, with prominent projects from downtown to the Westside.
Ancient and modern collide at LA interior designer's home
Inside the Los Angeles loft of interior designer and landscape architect Paiman Salimpour, founder of Sormeh Lifestyle. Salimpour’s personal style mixes the raw with the refined for a forward-looking aesthetic.
How one building put Los Angeles on the map
As Los Angeles boomed in the 1910s, civic leaders longed for a public venue for concerts, events, and, if they were lucky, the Olympics. The LA Memorial Coliseum cost only $800,000, but it helped make the young city a star.
The most scandalous hotel in old Santa Monica
The enormous Hotel Arcadia, built on a low seaside bluff in the 1880s, was Santa Monica’s first grand hotel. Over the years it was the site of fabulous parties, nasty scandals, and a murder attempt by one of Los Angeles's most prominent citizens.
Where Ronald Reagan went to be a cowboy
One of Ronald Reagan’s favorite places was his Rancho del Cielo, where he spent a cumulative year of his presidency, finishing his "Washington homework" in the morning, then riding and splitting wood the rest of the day. The press was not invited.
A daring concrete home rises on—and in—a Los Angeles cliff
A Los Angeles couple commissions a firm to create a home on a steep, narrow site for their family, eventually settling in a dreamy concrete pentagonal house with sweeping city views.