New York Pound Ridge Mirror House
The same architecture firm behind the U.S. Embassy in London built this Pound Ridge, New York home. Envisioned entirely around a rock formation, it wedges three shifting volumes into a pair of natural "rooms" carved into a glacial ridgeline. The owners bought the original 33-acre property and replaced the 1950s house already on it with this one: a glass, zinc-coated copper, and mirror-polished stainless steel structure sitting on what's now an almost 20-acre parcel, bordered on two sides by roughly 40 more acres of protected conservation land. Floor-to-ceiling glass walls and a floating staircase blur the line between the four-bedroom interior and the granite outcroppings outside, while a walnut-clad kitchen and media room sit nested within a larger gallery-like living space. The home runs on geothermal heating, and its cellar holds up to 2,400 bottles of wine. It won an AIA New York Design Award and was featured in Architectural Record's Houses.
