WebUrbanist has compiled a list of 10 of the most creative port container homes. Included of course is Peter DeMaria’s famous Redondo Beach design, but there’s also some more colorful selections from around the world. There’s even a house inside of a house.
Still no shining example of port container architecture in Long Beach, though.

Part Estates history, through the ample windows of an early modern house

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
“This was the dog on the block when we got it—avocado green and all overgrown,” says homeowner Sandra Allen, as we tour the sprawling circa-1949 ranch house she and husband Tim bought eight years ago. It’s hard to believe; their 2,000-square-foot [...]

A curvilinear downtown body shop has a high-class history

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Hiten Adhvaryu didn’t realize he was becoming part of history when he leased the old Horn’s body shop location from the Horns a year ago—but he knew he liked 1427 Long Beach Blvd.’s avant garde looks (curvy walls, shark fin sign, round showroom) and [...]

The Boumas’ California Heights Spanish Colonial is a low-mileage museum of style

PHOTO by JENNIFER STOCKDALE
Being named the West’s best neighborhood by Sunset magazine in 2002 makes California Heights probably the city’s most famous historic residential district. But it makes owning a Spanish-style in Cal Heights—possibly the signature architectural style here—spendy, and a lot of work. [...]

Turn these:

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
Into this:

That’s what Manhattan Beach-based architect Peter DeMaria does.
CurbedLA has the story yet again–this one-bedroom, one-bathroom house has a 680 square foot interior, an 800 square foot exterior and is made from two shipping containers, concrete and wood.

CurbedLA reports (via the L.A. Wave) on the progress of the Downey Landing project’s Columbia Memorial Space Science Learning Center: it’s under construction! The building is at the heart of the 160-acre site that Downey purchased away from NASA and Boeing, a massive development that will house everything from retail space (Best Buy, Ross) to [...]

Espirit de Lafayette at the walk thru time

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Two men in blue suits walk the sidewalk at Broadway and Linden, maps in their hands and mumbling about architecture, and then the one stops, turns, and looks up: “Oh,” he says, tipping back to trace the corner of the Lafayette. “Oh [...]

Some of the city’s best-designed buildings can be found at our elementary and middle schools

In lower education they’re still hoping you’ll learn to read, so they never say much about high-end topics like architecture. Which is a shame, as Long Beach Unified schools run the gamut of architectural styles, particularly its elementary campuses—several of which [...]