Home & Property Built into Nyack’s rugged cliffs, The Looking Glass is a $1.8 million property that blurs the line between structure and nature through bold composition. Photos by Maksim Akelin Media. Courtesy of Corcoran Baer & McIntosh Although cliffside architecture can be tricky to accomplish, one Hudson Valley architect has it mastered. Charles P. Winter is known for his residential and commercial properties that blend the boundary between structure and nature with geometry and walls of glass.