Honnold designed the
Dolores del Río House at 757 Kingman Avenue in
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles for Mexican actress
Dolores del Río and Irish production designer
Cedric Gibbons in 1929. He also designed the
Samuel Goldwyn Estate in
Beverly Hills, California, in 1934. Additionally, he designed the Stars' Dressing Room Building and Stage 8 at the studios of
Twentieth Century Fox, He also designed the Westminster Gardens Project in
Duarte, California. With
Arthur W. Hawes and
George Vernon Russell, he designed the Hollywood Reporter Building on
Sunset Boulevard in 1937. A decade earlier, circa 1927, he had designed the Alexander Kiam House in Los Angeles with Russell. With
John Lautner, he designed the Beverly Hills Club. They also designed the Embassy Shop in Beverly Hills, which won an Honor Award from the Southern California Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects in January 1947. Additionally, they designed the Coffee Dan's Restaurant buildings on
Vine Street in
Hollywood as well as on
Broadway in
Downtown Los Angeles in 1946. With
John Leon Rex, he designed the Anderson House at 621 Perugia Way in
Bel Air in 1951. The same year, they designed the Romanoff Center and Restaurant in Beverly Hills. In 1955, they designed the Edward Albert Adams House at 2331 Cove Avenue in
Silver Lake to the designs of
Harwell Hamilton Harris. They also designed the Piness Medical Building in Beverly Hills in 1955. They also designed the Psychology Building on the campus of the
University of California, Santa Barbara in 1965. They designed the William Morris Offices in Beverly Hills in 1955. They also designed the McKinley Home for Boys in
San Dimas, California, as well as the Portola Middle School in
Tarzana, California. They also designed the Los Angeles Federal Savings and Loan Association building in
North Hollywood in 1960 and its Hollywood building on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in 1963–1964. They also designed the Raymond Hommes Office Building in Beverly Hills. With Rex and fellow architect
Piercy K. Reibsamen, he designed the Barclays Bank Building in Tarzana. They also designed the John K. Kenny Library at 5151 State University Drive on the campus of
California State University, Los Angeles in 1969. Additionally, they designed the Campanile, or the Memorial Bell Tower, on the campus of
Pomona College in
Claremont in 1960–1961; ceramicist
Malcolm Leland designed the grillework. They also designed the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company Office Building at 888 West 6th Street in Downtown Los Angeles in 1973–1974. They also designed the Linder Plaza Office Building at 1,000
Wilshire Boulevard. They also designed the Hollywood-Wilshire Health Center at 5505 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood in 1968. With Rex, fellow architects
Frederick Earl Emmons,
Arthur Gallion,
A. Quincy Jones,
Maynard Lyndon and
Raphael Soriano, he designed the San Pedro Community Hospital at 1300 West 7th Street in
San Pedro, Los Angeles in 1958–1960. Meanwhile, Honnold, Rex and fellow architect
Welton Becket designed the Centinela Valley Community Hospital in
Inglewood, California, in 1961. In 1963, with fellow architects
Richard Neutra,
Herman Charles Light,
Robert Evans Alexander and James R. Friend, they designed the County of Los Angeles Hall of Records Building at 320 West Temple Street in Los Angeles in 1963. Honnold declined the offer to design the Golden Arches of the
McDonald's restaurant chain because brothers
Richard and Maurice McDonald were too opinionated about the design. Instead, they hired architect
Stanley Clark Meston. ==Personal life and death==