House cleaners, hazardous waste teams, and homeowners don protective gear as they attempt to remove soot, ash, and toxic ...

The California wildfires are still ravaging the Los Angeles area a week after they started. The stories of residents who live in the area and have lost everything are heartbreaking. Against this ...

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LOS ANGELES – Days after evacuating from Pacific Palisades, Maria Alden said, she was watching a TV news report about the wildfires. “They zoom into this house, and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, that's my ...

Los Angeles has Frank Gehry’s glorious Walt Disney Concert Hall, the space-age wonder of the LAX Theme Building and the stack-of-vinyl needle drop that is the Capitol Records building. For some design ...

Seen from above, the damage to the fire-ravaged neighborhoods of Altadena, California, appears endless and unsparing. (Alice Li/TWP) Warning: This graphic requires ...

The fundamental way most homes are built in America — the labor-intensive process of constructing conventional wood framing on site — hasn’t changed much for more than a century, even though more ...

In the architectural age of minimalism and millennial gray, a wild and whimsical antidote made of old clinker bricks and jumbled shingles sits on a quiet street at the edge of L.A. and Culver City.

In Los Feliz, a trendy Los Angeles neighborhood sitting at the base of Griffith Park, tree-lined streets hum with vintage shops, small bookstores, dive bars, florists, a movie theater and neighborhood ...

An iconic symbol of mid-century Hollywood glamor is on sale for the first time in history. The Stahl House, a two-bedroom residence that features sweeping views of Los Angeles, has been listed for $25 ...