An Art Collector’s Vision Set in Rock in Millbrook, N.Y. – The New York Times

The crowning achievement, however, might be his new 4,500-square-foot house, which is embedded within a rock outcropping that towers over a pond and paths running through the rolling landscape. Designed by the New York-based architecture firm Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu, or SO-IL, it is the culmination of more than two decades of study and experimentation. When Mr. Walther bought the land in 1994, he initially renovated the existing farmhouse that came with the property and moved in. Although he dreamed of building a new house from the ground up, he didn’t want it to be any ordinary home and he sensed that he needed to know more about contemporary architecture before trying to break the mold.

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