This home is unique in San Marino in that it is designed to achieve the dignity of the surrounding neighborhood homes built during various periods of history. This is achieved through the overall massing of the building which is very similar to the George Washington Smith home at the corner of Lombardy and Allen. It also utilizes the colors and roof lines of the popular “Andalusian Revival” period of the 1920′s made famous by Wallace Neff, whose own residence is two doors to the east.

The design has accomplished this without mimicry or false pastiche of historical forms and materials. Built to the highest standard of construction techniques, this home is a thoroughbred. The detailing and materials are museum-quality and the building systems are not only state-of-the-art, but organized at a commercial level for access, maintenance, and life safety.

Beautiful Pasadena home complete with floating soffits, custom lower base medal and curtain pockets for electric blinds and curve door jams all smooth wall in entire house

Credits

Architect: Richard Keating Architecture
Structural Engineer: Saiful Bouquet
Landscape Architect: Katherine Spitz
Photography: Nick Merrick, Hedrich Blessing

The project’s ambition lies in its dramatic spatial modulation and the saturation of its interior with the visual and geometric material of the surrounding site. Rather than understanding the views as a way to release the interior to the exterior, the surrounding geometric and topographic features are drawn into the interior to condition its atmosphere. Artificial and natural geometries are characterized as of the same fluid medium, and the house is a vortex into which this material is drawn. This ambition shapes each part of the house’s organization: a five-sided sculpted massing, folded roof and ceiling planes, raked window apertures and an involuted patio.

Beautiful malibu with amazing lines and curved walls throughout home custom riglet for the botttom finish as well as riglet around windows and curved jams on the interior doors also flush AC vent detail and metal around the built in cabinets all smooth wall through out home.

Credits

Architect: Heather Roberge, murmur
Structural Engineer: William Koh & Associates
Photography: Heather Roberge

A Santa Monica home featuring many drywall details with flush baseboard flush tile finished to drywall. Hidden coves for electric blinds. Including beautiful skylights and unending off angels throughout all smooth wall finish.

Primarily composed of renewable materials such as plaster and cement board, the general permeability of the house is reinforced by its green and gray cement board painting pattern, designed to echo the dappled light one sees when looking through a tree towards a sun-filled sky. The wood screens, made of vertically-oriented Ipe, further help to dematerialize the structure’s opaque walls.

Credits

Principal-in-Charge: John Friedman
Project Architect: Bob McFadden
Project Team: Alice Kimm, Claudia Kessner, Valentin Lieu, Ashley Merchant
Structural Engineer: William Koh and Associates, Inc.
Civil Engineer: JMC-2
Landscape Designer: Erin King
Lighting Design: FIRE Ltd.
Cabinetry, Dining Table and Chairs: A Single Tree
Selected Furniture and Artwork: Rumba
General Contractor: Bonomo Development
Landscape Contractor: Nature Care
Photography: Fotoworks

Client

Erin and Matthew King

Awards

2011 AIA/CC, Merit Award
2010 Southern California Development Forum (SCDF), Design Award
2010 Sunset, Custom Home Award
2010 California Home + Design, Residential Architecture Award

Press

2010 March, Sunset, Custom Home Award Winner
2010 February/March, California Home + Design
2010 New Natural Home (Thames & Hudson)
2009 Living West: New Residential Architecture in Southern California (The Monacelli Press)
2009 28 February, Los Angeles Times, “Home of the Times: Out in Front” by Paul Young