This house and particularly the picture on the left is one of my all time favorites. This house was apart of a 20 year case study, challenging the best architects at the time, to create affordable and well designed homes for the housing boom created after World War II . The floor-to-ceiling glass walls gave a panoramic view of Los Angeles and the Hollywood Hills and the use of metal gave the house a modernistic feel. This house was designed by Pierre Koenig and was built in 1959, what sets this house apart from so many of the others at the time (aside from the killer views) is the above photograph taken by Julius Shulman (leading architectural photographer at the time). This house has also appeared in many movies, Corina Corina and Why Do Fools Fall In Love, and most recently it was in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as a safe house. This beauty is definitely on my must-see list once I make it out West!
We would not have all of the the incredible glass houses that we have today if it wasn't for these gems. So if you do live in a glass house...be thankful for the architects above, the design probably wouldn't be here without them.