This Clear Lake home overlooking a golf-course-adorned stretch of Horsepen Bayou to the north is now for sale for $1.75 million (dropped in February from the $1.8 million requested when the house first hit the market last July). If you are allowed into the walled inner garden, you’ll find the yellow-and-cerulean structure above perched at the top of a glass-brick staircase. Ivy-League-turned-Rice-turned-University-of-Virginia architect Peter Waldman, who designed the 1990 home, referred to the multicolored elevated landing as a Trojan Horse “invading” the larger space. Roll right in through the front gates to see for yourself:

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The gates open to a porch and main entrance facing the bayou and the Bay Oak Country Club golf course:

The terrazzo-floored great room includes a dining area and living room looking out on the invaded inner courtyard:

Outside, a set of water features beneath the Horse are surrounded on all sides by additional patio and lounge spaces:

The kitchen’s island includes a range and bar seating:

The breakfast nook also has a view of the scene outside:

The master bedroom’s bed is orbited by a set of planetary sculptures:

The transparent glass bricks of the staircase may allow a view of comings and goings into the Horse itself, for those on the lookout in the courtyard:

The Horse’s space opens into a gallery room, which in turn opens out to a small enclosed patio on the other side of the house:

The second bedroom has an ensuite bathroom:

Bedrooms 3 and 4 (of, potentially, 6) share a bathroom:

You can watch Waldman’s early 1990s academic lecture that discusses the house here; the house itself first appears around the 39-minute mark of the 2-hour lecture.

• 14303 Harvest Glen Ct. [HAR]
• Peter Waldman – October 17, 1990 [Sci-Arc Media Archive]

Photos: HAR