Garage

At street level, the wooden garage door opens its toothed maw.

Outside looking in: a look at the door's mechanism.

On Vashon Island, about 20 miles southwest of Seattle, architect Seth Grizzle designed a 440-square-foot multiuse structure for his clients Bill and Ruth True.

The owners are car collectors, especially of “vintage American Mustangs,” Simpson says, so a nearly 23-foot-wide garage door opening was created at the rear of the building to access a space made for six prized rides.

Hooper House II's new owner, Richard North, has altered the house very little, though he did convert the carport into an enclosed garage to provide greater protection for his collection of automobiles. Read more about the mid-20th century Marcel Breuer Hooper House here.

A shot at dusk shows off the garage door’s perfect mix of in and out for entertaining purposes.

Standing-seam copper siding accentuates sections of the structure that provide shear support for the steel moment frame.