Taghkanic House

Thomas Phifer's glass-and-steel pavilion on 400 acres, looking across to the Catskills.

Why we picked itA Thomas Phifer glass house on 400 acres. Architecture at its most ambitious.

Architect Thomas Phifer designed this glass house on a hilltop above 400 acres of lawn, forest and farmland, about 15 minutes from Hudson.

It has six en-suite bedrooms plus a bunk room, an indoor salt-filtered pool, a dry sauna, a theater and a glass living pavilion with a fireplace.