It’s Free to Look: 57 Irving Place

Sometimes life really does imitate art. This new condo building designed by Audrey Matlock, with an all-glass façade designed to reflect the clouds, is almost as mesmerizing as her choppy glass take on the Chelsea Modern.

Not only will you be living in a work of art, the architects of 57 Irving Place guarantee you'll have room to display lots of it, with reinforced walls that can hold up to 1,000 pounds of paintings ... or pretty much anything you'd ever want to hang up. The front and back walls of the living room are made entirely of glass, depriving you of a little hanging space, but providing over 100 feet of natural light.

At just under 3,000 square feet, the seventh-floor unit, listed by Corcoran Sunshine Marketing, has three bedrooms, a kitchen big enough for six, a private balcony off the master bedroom and a spa shower. That's assuming that $7.95 million later you don't spend most of your time sitting outside and watching the clouds go by. Hopefully, your envious neighbors won't stand between you and a coveted key to Gramercy Park, one of the city's few private parks. — Laura Kusisto

Alanna Gladstone.