The extensive use of natural wood on nearly every surface makes the inside of The Barn feel like an extension of the landscape outside.

The Tinbeerwah house and studio keep a low profile among the site’s eucalyptus trees.

Los Angeles–based photographer Ye Rin Mok captured a sleek, renovated kitchen in the city’s Toy Factory Lofts building, where she fell in love with the “delicate brass trim and shelving.” Her portraits and interiors have appeared in Apartamento, The Telegraph, and WSJ, among others. Aside from photography, she enjoys hiking, pottery making, and taking ballet classes. What is your favorite interior? “Philip Johnson’s Glass House.”

Sleeping nooks that look like the grooves in a block of cheese.

A passage between the walls for hide and seek.

Site work in progress.

Future site view. Overgrown 21+ acre forested site.

Collage of site photos overlaid on top of previous owner's site plan. Site was unoccupied when purchased.

OPA wanted to free themselves from logic imposed by a grid and considered various inefficient configurations of shipping containers. They settled on a combination of options, seen in the trikselion shape here. The Presidio, San Francisco, California. Mobile exhibition pavilion for the For-Site Foundation. © Tim Griffith.

site design group, ltd. The award-winning landscape firm behind sites such as Mary Bartelme Park took over the penthouse of the historic Crane Company Building, designed by Holabird & Roche in 1912, and turned it into a playful, open workspace.

For more informartion on the project, visit gracefarms.org.

The site of much permit-wrangling.

A wider look at the building's siting.

The architects pulled away the roof at the house’s center to create a courtyard where the residents can enjoy meals. The ground sits below floor level, which means that the wraparound eucalyptus deck can also serve as a bench.

This living/bedroom space showcases neutral tones and shades of white to contrast the continued use of natural, treated wood surfaces.