Details, details, details!  A client who loves them as much as we do couldn't be more fun.  An avid vintage car collector and aficionado, the design became a reflection of the owner's enthusiasm for celebrating the careful and precise machined details found in exquisitely restored automobiles.  Concrete, steel, stone, wood and glass were shaped into a jewel box of carefully considered material intersections; their subtle, multi-layered relationships to be discovered over time.  A post tensioned concrete slab structural system provided uninterrupted 60 foot free spans across the entire site, allowing for voluminous gallery like rooms and a car perched on the stair landing.  The residence is sited to take advantage of the best of a dual personality site...sorta' like a mullet (business in the front, party in the back).  The building's street frontage includes a small retail/office space buffering the living spaces from Kirkland's bustling retail core activities, while the demure residential vestibule calms your senses just before you are greeted by a sweeping but seemingly private view of Lake Washington.