Hats off to the seminal American architect Richard Meier, who last week announced his retirement from his eponymous firm at the age of 86. Here is one of his most breathtaking designs, the Douglas House, situated on the shores of Lake Michigan. Typically geometric and realised in Meier’s signature white, the building appears to hover over the steep slope on which it sits. In the architect’s own words, “The dramatic dialogue between the whiteness of the house and the primary blues and greens of the water, trees, and sky allows [it] not only to assert its own presence but to enhance, by contrast, the beauty of its natural environment as well.”
