On the opposite shore, glass-and-steel structures of breathtaking design were cantilevered over the water, all aglow.
He slipped a long, ribbonlike building along the contours of the ridge, supporting it on cantilevered steel columns.
Kentuck Knob is also down the road from Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece, which is cantilevered over a waterfall.
He likens his construction techniques such as interlocking corner notches and cantilevered roofs to those of frontiersman Daniel Boone, namesake of the county seat.
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The third story is cantilevered out over the two floors below it, so that it felt as if we were floating in space.
The house is cantilevered at the front, overhanging the ground floor in profile, the property looks rather like a stack of teetering building blocks.
The proposal, by Santiago Calatrava, a Spanish architect, involves increasing the building's height by five floors and adding a spire and cantilevered restaurant on top of that.
"Usually when you think of black, you think of a sleek Ferrari or something like that, " he says, standing in front of a wall of the room's cantilevered bookshelves.
Instead of sitting in the dry dock supported by numerous props and stays, it would be suspended in a Kevlar cradle on a cantilevered steel frame disguised to look like the surface of the sea.
The complex is topped by a 340m-long SkyPark with a capacity of 3, 900 people and a 150m infinity swimming pool, set on top of the world's largest public cantilevered platform, which overhangs the north tower by 67m.
Each suite is a totally self-contained wonderland, with multiple tiered outdoor terraces, spa-like shower towers armed with multiple heads, and each has an ornately tiled private infinity pool cantilevered out over the azure blue sea, featuring jaw dropping views of the famed Piton mountains.
Directing our eyes up the slope, we see the monastery complex's 12-story tumble of geometry come into focus: the Little Potala, as it is called, after the original in Lhasa, all stepped roofs and cantilevered walls, scaling the crag like a fairy-tale medieval fortress.
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