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Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Price: $575,000
If you?ve been dreaming of a your own Glass House?à la Philip Johnson or Mies Van Der Rohe?it?s time to act quickly. This one-bedroom, one-bath boxy home in Tennessee was just listed and according to agent Barbara Apking, the offers are already rolling in. Built by longtime University of Tennessee architecture professor William Starke Shell, the 1,600-square-foot home features a flat roof, 40-by-40 steel beams, and huge glass panels.
Located on an 80-foot cliff on 1.2 acres in a South Knoxville neighborhood, the home took over a decade for Shell to build by himself; Shell worked as the designer, general contractor, project manager, and laborer. The all-glass walls still feel private thanks to a green forest of pines, dogwoods, and maples and a lack of neighbors. Shell called the house ?a residential pavilion for a retired person,? and in 2015 it won an American Institute of Architects East Tennessee Merit Award for its design.
The home?s clean lines and transparent walls are reminiscent of the style of German-American architect Mies van der Rohe and especially his most iconic building, the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois. According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, ...