Florida Coast Guard Beach Home!

Florida Coast Guard Beach Home!

Florida Coast Guard Beach Home!

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Casey Keyis a narrow, secluded eight-mile-long barrier island located in Sarasota County, Florida that attracts celebrities and architects. With enviable topography providing white sand beaches with beautiful sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico in the front of the home to the Intracoastal Waterway in the rear of the property for protective docking of yachts, Casey Key provides extensive water opportunities.

This prime location was not lost on architect Toshiko Mori. Educated at Harvard and chosen by "Architectural Digest" to be included in its "2014 AD100 Architects," Mori designed this dramatic contemporary home using an unusual technique with glass, building it on stilts to optimize the Gulf to Bay views. Built on 2.5 acres of beachfront and Intracoastal Waterway, "West Wind" is comprised of 7,121 square feet with six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, den and bonus room on the interior with swimming pool and a two bedroom guest house that was once a Coast Guard barracks. All this is surrounded by lush tropical landscaping, including over 60 varieties of palms, fruit trees and other vegetation. The entrance from the ground is centered under the house’s center atrium with a partial glass floor that ushers in light from the glass atrium roof. Architect James Carpenter designed a dichroic glass prism which diffuses daylight from clerestory windows into a spectrum of colors that change with the viewing angle. For more information.

Contemporary home designed by former Harvard architecture department chair, Toshiki Mori, includes former Coast Guard barracks – now a two-bedroom guest house. Asking $9.9 million.

Source: luxurypropertyinsarasota.com