Home to a former professional rock climber and an Australian businessman, the Syncline House comes by its name honestly: “It is an unusual edge condition between the city and mountain park, private and public space, and a geologic fold in the earth between the Great Plains and the Rockies,” says E.J. Meade, principal architect at Boulder-based Arch 11. Syncline House opens directly onto the foothills of the Front Range and the 45,000 acres and 144-miles of trails the city of Boulder has set aside as Open Space & Mountain Parks yet is still only a few minutes' bike ride from downtown Boulder.