15 most beautiful glass houses around the world

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• Parker Center
• Photos of Spectacular Glass Houses
• Why stripes are the timeless trend making a bold comeback in interior design
• Stahl House, Los Angeles, USA 1960
• The mother-and-daughter duo behind luxury architecture and interiors studio Thorp
• Rieteiland Amsterdam glass house
• Check out these 8 incredible Los Angeles Airbnb glass houses

Designed by Heusche Inc., this is home is total California all in white with floor to ceiling windows looking out on a huge infinity pool on a cliff overlooking Los Angeles. It was also fun because I absolutely love houses with plenty of glass; I’m a sucker for the modern style and so it was fun looking at all these amazing designs. "Standard" tours last 90 minutes and flash photography is not allowed. There is a pure glass tour that only visits the house and is an hour long. The 49-acre campus is an example of the successful preservation and interpretation of modern architecture, landscape, and art. The Glass House was home to Philip Johnson and his partner, influential curator David Whitney, a place where they hosted many of the most notable architects, artists and designers of their time.

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Just one of many that make this house not only beautiful, but environmentally friendly. This home was built around existing trees and is a sustainable home with unique features. The home is multi-level and an impressive size inside with unimaginable space and openness.

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Photos of Spectacular Glass Houses

This contemporary glass box house is modern beyond belief, every inch of its 4,900 square foot floor plan. The home sits on a steep slope surrounded by beautiful trees you can see from every angle. Originally built as a 1970’s kit house and was later updated with hurricane force protective, fabricated steel panels. The very spacious glass home is a very large, with 3,100 square feet of open space combined in multiple levels of living quarters.

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The new remodel gives the owners a beautiful spacious deck off the master suite, along with a spa-like bathroom and all the awestruck views of the beach and ocean from throughout the home with the over-sized glass windows. This is a very spacious glass home that gives you all the best amenities and luxuries of stress-free, beautiful beach lifestyle. Designede by architect, Hans van Heeswijk, the house was built for himself and is located on the island of IJburg. It is a three-story glass house that faces out of the water and features a large ground floor with the dining room situated there, along with three bedrooms.

Hartford Glass house

They design a lot of homes and their work is amazing. The above home is largely glass – floor-to-ceiling glass with incredible views of the grounds, including swimming pool, from pretty much every room. You’ll also love the interior design of this home.

Perched atop a Bel Air hilltop, Orum is a three-level, 18,800-square-foot home designed to subtly 'float' above its environs. Interestingly, while the property was completed in 1963, a later owner, James Goldstein, commissioned Lautner in 1972 to update and “perfect” the house, a process that lasted until the architect’s death in 1994. With exquisitely balanced dimensions, Glass House stands amid beautiful Connecticut countryside, invisible from the road, and it brought the International Style into residential American architecture. Its architect Philip Johnson lived in the 1,815-square-foot property himself, from its completion in 1949 until his death in 2005.

Alongside steel, wrought iron, and concrete, the material came to define an architectural movement and quickly captured architects’ imagination. Glass structures—with their lightness, transparency, translucency, and reflectivity—intimately reveal their interiors and provide a commune with nature that was previously unachievable. They say that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones but you know what they should do? Rent out their houses as Airbnbs, especially in Southern California where the views of the Pacific Ocean are just not to be believed. From whale watching, to unobstructed morning sunrises, these 8 Incredible Los Angeles glass houses on Airbnb are a true experience in and of themselves. Even if all you do is stay inside these masterpieces, you’ll feel as if you’ve seen the world.

The above home was designed by Paul Bernier Architecte. It’s like a sleek long piece of wood settled on the floor of a forest. The living space of the home enjoys almost all glass exterior. “In the case of the Glass House, the stylistic approach is perfectly clear. Mies van der Rohe and I had discussed how you could build a glass house and each of us built one.

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The light in Los Angeles is very dynamic and can be both calming and energizing. As the site is positioned quite high above the city with almost no impediments, we wanted the house to capture the spirit of these qualities. Orum’s huge panels of glass provide inhabitants with a strong connection to nature and the daily and seasonal arcs of light. In all, Orum rises two stories above ground with its third floor burrowed into the hill. Programmatically, the residence has been split into three levels each consisting of three wings. The ground floor provides the entry and communal spaces for gathering, while the top floor is dedicated to the home’s private spaces.

Cliff-side home with two story towering glass section overlooking the steep property. Cascading mansion down a cliff – 4 floors, most of which are floor-to-ceiling glass overlooking the water. Modern mansion at night with extensive glass spanning length of home overlooking private pool and deck area. Check out the curved glass home on top of a mountain. It appears as if the glass windows has a blueish tint which looks great. Interesting substantial home built with some form of metal and glass on large flat lot overlooking the mountains.

Johnson curated an exhibit of Mies van der Rohe work at the Museum of Modern Art in 1947, featuring a model of the glass Farnsworth House.[4] It was an important and influential project for Johnson and for modern architecture. The building is an example of minimal structure, geometry, proportion, and the effects of transparency and reflection. The estate includes other buildings designed by Johnson that span his career. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997.

Please note this option is not available in November or December. Picnicking, professional photography, tripods, and easels are not permitted. – All children must be at least ten years old to participate in tours and must be accompanied by an adult.