Upstater

We don’t know the exact location of this “small vacation house designed as a stairway to the treetops,” which is how Gluck + Architects describes it. It was designed to view what they say is virtually the entire range of the Catskills mountains. “Keeping the footprint to a minimum so as not to disturb the wooded site, each of the first three floors has only one small bedroom and bath, each a tiny private suite. The top floor, which contains the living spaces, spreads out from the tower like the surrounding forest canopy, providing views of the lake and mountains in the distance,” they write. “The glass-enclosed stair highlights the procession from forest floor to treetop aerie, while the dark green enameled exterior camouflages the house by reflecting the surrounding woods, and dematerializing its form.”