I'm very excited, tasteful friends

One of the finest houses I have ever seen.

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• What are you excited about, OP? Is that your new home?

• It could be, for the price of a 1 bedroom apartment in Manhattan.

• Fabulous setting.

• Love it.

• I suspect based on the width and depth of the house, they contoured based on the property lot size. Creative yet functional.

• Astounding

• I love it! I want it, and I want to pick it up and move it to a place that has a view worth looking at.

• It's beautiful. I hate the furniture though. And I'm just imagining what the ceiling over the kitchen will be like after cooking in there for a year or two. Ewww.

• I didn't want to like it but after the pix, that is awesome.

• I don't do minimalism.

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• Lovely views. Just too minimalist for me. I do not understand the kitchen.

• Very nice building site, but if they wanted a cave, why didn't they just dig out the hillside?

• How does it stay up during quakes?

• That thing will somersault down the hill in a quake.

• Exhibitionists.

• It would be like living on a subway platform in Astoria.

• Yes, it seems very under-engineered for Japan, unless there are some very serious hidden supports. Love it, though. Love elegant minimalism, small spaces used fabulously, and sweeping views.

• [quote]It would be like living on a subway platform in Astoria. I second that emotion.

• I guess it's ok if you wanna live in a taco shell.

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• Site is not iPad friendly. Could only see 1 photo, the first one. Hate those fucking slide show sites. Just put the fucking pics all on the same page and I'll pick the ones I want to look at. Like those "10 best/worst cities for..." articles that make you load a new page for each city profiled. Fucking poor user interface! OK. Rant over. House looks cool.

• So the smell of cooking permeates the whole space, including the bedroom.

• Lovely setting, great use of glass, but an ugly worm of a building with awkward volumes and unpleasant shapes.

• R2, you seem not to realize that the price depends on those valuable two words at the end: "in Manhattan." Who wants a house in Japan?

• The Japanese, r23?

• I love minimalism but this is boring and ugly. It's like living in a covered bus stop.

• That was lovely, thank you.