If you were making a checklist of all the things you?d have in your fantasy beach house, what would they be" A heated saltwater pool that could be used year-round" Check. Long stretches of sliding glass doors that erase the boundary between indoors and out" Check. How about a sunken conversation pit inside a breezeway that can comfortably seat 30 of your closest friends" Check. Idyllic views of a stunning Art Deco skyline and boats zipping by on the nearby waterways" Check. A 200-foot long elevated walkway that winds over your very own swimmable lagoon" Double check.

All of these features can be found in the very real (and very expensive) Casa Canal, which was designed by Marcio Kogan’s Brazilian architecture firm Studio MK27. Located on Miami Beach’s Pine Tree Drive, this luxury house just hit the market for $29.75 million and measures 15,000 square feet in size ? not including its additional 3,000 square foot building that can be used as an art gallery, athletic center, or commercial space for special events. Currently listed on Sotheby?s International Realty, Casa Canal is about as “Miami” as a modern house can get, but most people won’t be able to see it by simply driving by thanks to that privacy-enhancing secondary structure out front. ?This structure has allowed the design to eliminate the need for a front boundary wall and controls access to the property while maintaining a softness to the street edge,? ex...