New book shelves and a translucent shelf wall lead visitors to the main living space while obscuring direct views into the kitchen. The cubistic etched glass shelf wall is backlit by daylight, or it can glow from within by way of cleverly concealed accent lights built into the vertical supports.The site was a strangely configured one-room residential loft on a high floor overlooking New York Harbor. Our role was to relocate the kitchen, create two new bathrooms, two new bedrooms, and a study while weaving central air conditioning into the project.