The house
The structural glass corner took Aoki + Vance two years and three engineers to get signed off. Standing in it, the floor simply stops and the water is four hundred feet below with nothing in the way.
Everything else in the house is quiet by comparison, which is the point. The material palette is three items long: pale concrete, blackened steel, and white oak. There is no skirting anywhere in the building.
Shown by appointment only, accompanied.
What makes it
Eleven-metre cantilever over the bluff edge
Structural glass corner with no visible frame
Three-material palette throughout
Shortlisted, Pacific Coast Architecture Prize 2024
Guide price
$8,200,000
5 bd · 6 ba · 540 m²
Architect
Aoki + Vance
Completed
2023
Internal area
540 m²
Plot
3,260 m²
Tenure
Freehold
EPC
B
Neighbourhood
Vashon Bluff
Photographs
The cantilevered living room
Structural glass corner
Principal suite
Approach elevation
Specification
What is
in it
Interior
Blackened steel stair, single stringer
Full-height pivot doors
Concealed climate control
Cinema room
Exterior
Infinity pool at the cliff edge
Native bluff planting
Garaging for four
Cliff-path access to the shore
Services
Ground-source heat pump
Whole-house automation
Battery storage
Backup generator
Where it is
Vashon Bluff
47.4073 N - 122.4585 W
Vashon Bluff
6 listed
41 days median
