A computer-generated aerial rendering, looking down on the site from the south east. The volumes of the building gather around the top of the hill perpendicular to the fall lines down the various slopes.

Computer-generated image from the drive way. We are looking up at the reception hall and home theater.

Looking down on the site from the north east, we can see the stair tower (cylinder), and the reception hall (the vaulted volume), and the other forms grouped around the courtyard.

Looking through the stair tower at the second floor level, openings on opposite sides of the cylinder line up with the center line of the hallway and a window. This frames a view out to the desert beyond (which is quickly being developed, so it is a sea of red tile roofing).

Looking west along the parapet of the guest wing. We are standing nearly at the height of the original hill top.

The shadow cast inside the stair tower, of a figure on the internal stair up to the upper walkway.

Looking out the window of a car pulling into the single car garage at the top. The framed view is of the mountains to the south, which will never be developed.

Looking up at the Home Theater and Reception Hall from the guest parking area in front of the large garage.

Looking from the south west over the Castle on its hill. The development beyond has mostly happened since the beginning of the project in 2001. The Castle is protected by being eighty feet above all of the surround residential areas and by sitting on ten acres.

From the north east, still under construction in November 2006.

The courtyard at the end of 2006.

The view from the bottom of the driveway, to compare with the computer generated version that we created five years earlier.

The Library and Office towers, and the Master Suite stretching to the west.

The curved, glass-railed bridge over the Reception Hall.

The bar in the Reception Hall, seen from the bridge above.

The exterior stair on the west end of the Guest Wing, which lead up to the balconies and catwalk (and the ladder down to the compressors for the air conditioning).

Master Suite, looking east toward the Office and Library.

In the Library looking up into the cupola, where automatic windows open to allow ventilation from above.

Looking into the Master Suite from the hallway between the Office and the Library. There is a skylight that runs the length of the circulation space in the Master Suite, filling the hall with natural light.

The Kitchen, with stools around the island.

Looking up at the north facade of the Guest Wing.

The bridge from the catwalk on the Guest Wing to the stairs and catwalk in the Rotunda.

The front door, which visitors arrive at by walking around the stairs on the exterior of the Rotunda.

The Library, seen from the courtyard.

The Breakfast Nook seen from the Courtyard.

The Home Theater, before the stage was properly painted black.

The Reception Hall, with the billiard table, bar and bridge overhead.