The screen stops well above the sidewalk, revealing V-shaped concrete supports and a glass-walled ground floor with views of a double-height sunken gallery inside.
There's little delineation between the indoor and outdoor spaces: The paved entrance path leads visitors directly through a double-height living room and out past the pool toward the open water.
Inside, there is about 3, 000 square feet, with a 28-foot-wide octagonal double-height living room with a library at one end and doors opening out to a terrace on the other.
Apartments with double-height living spaces were all taken, but we found a duplex that was 15 feet wide by 28 feet long on the first level and a little larger on the second.
The Rolls-Royce Ghost rides on a sophisticated double wishbone suspension up front with a multi-link array at the rear and automatic damping height-adjustable shock absorbers at all four corners.