The living room's location is unconventional in this home, revealing an ingenious reverse-loft configuration that includes a raised lounge upstairs and a main-floor bedroom underneath.

Residents worry the neighborhood's growth will be too fast for the city and district to keep up with infrastructure.

An overhead view of the Lodge at Sea Ranch, located on a 10-mile stretch of the Sonoma County coastline. The house belonging to the late landscape architect and master planner Lawrence Halprin ...