In addition to the private terraces, its newer buildings have two common areas: a second-floor courtyard garden surrounded by park benches, and a rooftop area with lounge chairs, barbecue grills and a two-sided glassed-in fire pit.
AMENITIES: Surround-sound and a gas fire pit.
The Vik group's original beach property has an extremely modernist feel, all glass facades, fire pits, and artwork, most notably a James Turrell light installation and a Zaha Hadid-designed table in the main house.
The outside barbecue is glass-enclosed with a fire pit.
And I walked home to a fire pit, a glass of wine, and my aging dogs leaping over each other around a huge yard.
The Gardens' 30 Italian-inspired villas, which start at $2.95 million, are built around private courtyards with features like sliding glass walls, landscaped fire pits, fireplaces, and water walls that blur the lines between indoors and out.
Designed for intimate entertaining, a subterranean courtyard set within a two-story steel-and-glass curtain features an artful fire pit and water feature.
What once was an alley providing access to a wholesale furniture marketplace has been transformed into a pedestrian plaza with an astroturf lawn, reclaimed wood boardwalks, a gas-fueled fire pit, and a glass gate that can be locked at night.
I sat by my fire pit of stones on the sand, glass of wine in hand as the enormous face of Knight Peak shouldered in snow and mist, drifted through the pink light of the setting sun.
Hedged by mature palms and bamboo, the 1950s bungalow sits on more than a third of an acre with a swimming pool and spa, a fire pit and a garage/studio with a glass door.
