cantilever

It shows the home at night, with two young women sitting inside in a cantilevered corner, its floor-to-ceiling windows revealing the lights of the L.A.

“I wanted it to feel cantilevered and light because I didn’t want it to block the views,” she says.

In this manner, the cantilevered base of the building need not carry any load beyond the first eight stories, a solution that would make the base lighter and cheaper.

At one point he even threatened to chop off a cantilevered corner of the building if the complications around its construction were not quickly resolved.

His striking home was perched above the boulevard, its wood and glass cantilevered over a concrete base.