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I’m in love. Incredible.

We need more residences like this IN San Francisco!

freaking awesomely beautiful! jaw dropping delicious, scrumptous, heavenly, and other highly pleasing adjectives!

unreal

Stunning!!!

Where is this house located?

[Editor's Note: On fifteen acres outside of San Anselmo.]

It looks very sterile to me. Nice to look at visually (at first glance), but hardly anyplace that looks like a comfortable home. I have yet to see a Saitowitz design that looks comfortable, they are all just vanity projects with no absolutely regard to livability or dining (conduit restaurant...ugh, need I say more).

Poetry. In. Motion.

Classy! That exterior color is wonderful!

What feels right varies quite a bit between people. Perhaps those who appreciate a building like this are likely to spend much of their time in institutional settings and think of spaces such as airport terminals as being great for getting a few winks? Somehow the spacious and uncluttered response gets blocked out by the not cozy enough reaction with some people, but we all need to live somewhere and hence the variety.

The cost of such an installation would bug me even if I could afford it, also cleaning up the carcasses of birds that are likely to die attempting to barnstorm through the glass. Maybe at a smaller, cozy scale and with some large but still more traditional windows it might work better, but then it would be something completely different.

Wow.

Hideous. It ruins that otherwise pretty hillside.

[Editor's Note: On fifteen acres outside of San Anselmo.]

That elevates the admiration - 15 acres is a nice size lot.

gh - Just about any home this size would "ruin" the pristine landscape. This house is built across a seasonal drainage and at least makes a nod towards Ma Nature.

Though not exactly my style, I'd much rather see something innovative like this than another Faux Chateau or microcastle.

Your complaint should be directed towards the planning commission that approved this site for home construction, not the architect.

Dreamy...

Not feeling it. The bridge I live under near the freeway looks more comfortable.

You're right...it beats a micro castle, but not by much. I'm just too traditional I guess. Alot of the "modern" stuff doesn't age too well either, style-wise, IMO.

If I remember my fungshui lessons correctly, having water run beneath or through your home is not a positive thing. The rushing water will carry your fortunes and luck away.

Other than that, the design is beautiful. :P

I think it's beautiful to look at, if not to live in.
Hopefully the water running underneath won't carry away my golems and unicorns too.

This amazing house is in the neighborhood that I grew up in, on essentially the same street. I have admired it's boldness and beauty on many walks. It butts up against Sleepy Hollow Open Space, and is nicely tucked back away from the quiet cul-de-sac street. The "creek" is really a dry creek. And the rusted metal exterior is really quite pretty in person.

The area is full of 1950's ranch style homes and the new construction has tended more towards the mini-mansion look. I love having something so innovative and inspiring in my childhood neighborhood.

Gorgeous. I'm getting a little tired of the retro-modern box house (I don't how Dwell manages to be endlessly excited about a million variations on the same theme), but this one seems to do it perfectly. Maybe because it seems in harmony with nature in a way that Philip Johnson achieved with his Glass House?

This place is nice to gawk at but would probably be atroscious to live in. Very cold and sterile. Also open to perverts gawking at your every move from in the trees off in the distance.

Looks like living in a museum

It reminds me of Ferris Bueller describing his friend's home. "Cameron's house is like living in a museum. It's very large, very cold, and you can't touch anything."