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The monumental Mountain Top House by Batter Kay in eastern San Diego harnesses light and 360-degree views. Here, the architects managed to integrate a requisite water tank into the landscape design, cleverly stacking an office and viewing deck above it architecture | real estate | entertaining Live Design, rejected traditional firms upon graduation. Instead, they established Batter Kay in 1975, using their first home on Balboa Avenue as a design manifesto. This case study — focused on light, sculpture, and space — echoed Le Corbusier's harmonious minimalism. "It's that feeling of 'ahhhhh' we really want," says architect Janice Kay Batter from her Del Mar office overlooking San Dieguito Lagoon. "I want clients to be in their house and feel uplifted." The Del Mar native and her husband, Michael Batter, alumni of the Harvard Graduate School of Curves Ahead FOR 50 YEARS, BATTER KAY HAS PUNCTUATED THE SAN DIEGO LANDSCAPE WITH LIVABLE SCULPTURE BY GILLLIAN FLYNN | PHOTOGRAPHY BY PHILIPP SCHOLZ RITTERMANN >> @ranchandcoast RANCH & COAST MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2025 63