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Data center developers set their sights on California golf courses, three new exhibitions explore Paul R. Williams’s architectural legacy, and more.

The Hudson-Evans House was built for a shipowner, gifted to a lumber baron’s daughter, home to the founder of a department-store empire, and has spent the last 20 years as a law office. What comes next?

Location: 79 Alfred Street, Brush Park, Detroit, Michigan

Price: $1,999,000

Year Built: 1873

Footprint: 8,969 square fee...

Architect Juan Saez Pedraja peeled back layers of the Highland Park bungalow before blending inspiration from his native Spain and the neighborhood.

Glaring blue paint, textured plaster that looked like it had been applied with a shovel, checkerboard parquet, and linoleum floors aren’t typically inducements to falling in love with a house. But architect Juan Saez...

I added a low-key sound setup to my dining room in an attempt to make it the most social space in the house.

I was lonely. I was lonely in my kitchen, probably chopping onions, because I remember the sting in my eyes, and it definitely wasn’t because I was crying, from feeling alone. Everyone was hanging out in the living room, like they always do, around the corner a m...

Three new exhibitions illuminate how the Los Angeles architect shaped the Southland as we know it, not least of all by connecting our living spaces with the landscape.

Picture Los Angeles the way the movies showed you: French doors pulled wide to blooming bougainvillea, a living room that steps straight onto a terrace, which then steps down to a pool. It’s a vision of t...