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Swiss architect Heinz Julen designed this three-level Zermatt chalet-style penthouse with plenty of windows or skylights for an open and modern feel.

To further connect the indoor spaces with the New England landscape outside, glass walls in the living and dining areas slide open to eliminate the barriers between indoors and outdoors. Green slate tiles compose the flooring inside.

Living Room

Spectacular belvedere overlook to experience the vineyards

The sunny side of the home is clad in cedar weatherboards and features sleeping quarters on the upper level with living spaces below.

A rendering of the new accommodations illustrate the connection to the site.

Mad tech mogul Nathan Bateman’s home has gorgeous, expansive views of a lake and mountains, but an underabundance of trees, considering the film’s Alaskan setting. Tall trees were imported and placed on twenty meter-high stilts to create an Alaskan vibe. The hotel, perched on a steep levee within a nature reserve, is a minimalist marvel that blends into the wilderness—in building the hotel, no alterations to the terrain or rock blasting were permitted. The result is a series of birdhouse-shaped log houses that jut perilously over slopes and a collection of guest rooms that are stand-alone cubes supported by huge steel rods drilled into the rock, each with one or two glass walls that offer eye popping views of glacial mountains.