House with car parking.
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New Zealand-born Simon Storey's LA practice combines a love of classic SoCal modernism with the desire to build without reusing familiar styles. Faced with plenty of steep lots in the Californian canyons, it has ample opportunity to work with light and structure. Storey describes the firm's recent Big & Small House as 'a wonderful balance between a tiny budget and a grand living space'.
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Dining area of the House

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Bedroom of the house

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Roof car parking on the house

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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).