On cliff's edge : Skyline residence, Los Angeles / Belzberg Architects ; Hill house, Pacific Palisades / Johnston Marklee ; Rochman House, Los Angeles / Callas Shortridge Architects ; Twin houses, Pacific Palisades / Predock Frane Architects ; Jamie House, Pasadena / Escher Gunewardena Architecture -- Tree house, San Diego / Safdie Rabines Architects -- Urban innovations : Surfhouse, Hermosa Beach / XTEN Architecture ; King residence, Santa Monica / John Friedman Alice Kimm -- 1 + 3 + 1 house, Venice / Steffen Leisner, Syntax ; R3 Triangle Building, San Diego / Lloyd Russell ; One-window house, Venice / Touraine Richmond Architects -- Linnie House, Venice / Michele Saee -- Radical transformations : Los Feliz residence, Los Angeles / Techentin Buckingham Architecture ; 823 Palms, Venice / Daly Genik ; Beuth residence, West Hollywood / Studio Pali Fekete Architects ; Tigertail, Brentwood / Tighe Architecture ; 330 Neptune, Encinitas / Steven Lombardi ; Alan-Voo House, Culver City / Neil M. Denari Architects -- Open and airy : Kelly House, Brentwood / Abramson Teiger Architects ; Point Dume residence, Malibu / Griffin Enright Architects ; Marco Place, Venice / Barbara Bestor Architecture ; 700 Palms residence, Venice / Steven Ehrlich ; Lemperle residence, La Jolla / Jonathan Segal -- Environmentally minded : Residence for a briard, Culver City / Sander Architects ; Seatrain, Los Angeles / Office of Mobile Design ; Solar umbrella house / Pugh + Scarpa ; Off-grid ithouse, Pioneertown / Taalman Koch Architecture -- Mountainside retreats : Topanga Ranch, Topanga Canyon / AGPS Architecture ; Jai House, Calabasas / Lorcan O'Herlihy ; Montecito residence, Montecito / Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects ; Malibu 5, Malibu / Kanner Architects ; Lago Vista, Beverly Hills / Aleks Istanbullu Architects.