Cover Architecture turns Pasadena home into sanctuary for daily living

A space for practicing traditional Chinese medicine features in this renovated 1960s home in Pasadena, California, transformed by Los Angeles-based Cover Architecture.

The post-and-beam residence in the San Rafael Hills – which luckily escaped the fires that ravaged the area last year – was overhauled for the first time since its mid-century beginnings.

The entry to this mid-century Pasadena home was relocated and an opening was created above

Cover Architecture revived the single-storey building for a couple in their 30s...