John Lautner Silvertop house
The noted Lautner-designed home is a midcentury masterpiece, which recently experienced an extensive restoration, completed by Bestor Architecture over the course of three years. ... Commissioned in 1956, construction of the residence spanned from 1957 to 1976.

Architect John Lautner is legendary for inventive, boundary-pushing designs including the Malin Residence (Chemosphere) in the Hollywood Hills. His design for the Reiner-Burchill Residence, better known as Silvertop, is nearly as iconic as the Chemosphere, with a similar embrace of the curve and the vista. Silvertop is slightly less known because it is perched out of view atop a hill and can best be seen from East Silver Lake Boulevard, across the reservoir.

The Organic Modern house features a huge, arching concrete roof over a wall of glass opening the interior to the views all around, enhanced by a cantilevered swimming pool that seems to flow directly into Silver Lake Reservoir far below.

Commissioned by industrialist and engineer Kenneth Reiner as his home, Silvertop was Lautner’s first major use of monolithic concrete as a sculptural as well as architectural component. It was largely completed in 1963, after nearly seven years of construction.

The sweeping concrete driveway is only four inches thick and dramatically cantilevered from the house’s base without any supporting columns.