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whose previous home was far more
traditional than the Tower Grove
contemporary they now inhabit. And
while their view from the top is certainly
magnificent, so too is the hillside, a thing
of real beauty, honest and humanly
rom Tower Grove Drive, looking
out from a wonderfully designed
home whose precipice is a
hillside in the southern Santa
Monica Mountains, the view
is truly grand—a sweep that
extends dramatically past Los Angeles
to the Pacific. And yet the home itself
is intimately attuned to the site-specific
setting right outside its expanse of its
windowed walls.
KAA Design, a boutique studio in Los
Angeles, helmed the three-year project,
which produced a sustainable two-story
structure at its heart. The architecture,
a warm, elemental mix of wood and
stone, featuring clean lines and other
early-modernist undertones, is best
understood as an engagement with both
the landscape and its homeowners, a
couple much inclined toward nature,
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