The realtors at Eklund Stockholm New York describe the apartment as a:

truly spectacular and definitely a must see cause there is no other place like this one. Enjoy your own private outdoor space, a lofty feel, nice open spaces and great renovations.

With its white and bright background, the apartment steals the attention with an interesting mixture of natural colours, accentuated by red and black. In the middle of the living room, a hammock dangles from the double-height ceiling, offering the possibility of relaxing in an unusual way. The large open rooms of the loft create a modern space with everything you need: a double-height living room, a fully equipped kitchen, a bedroom and a kids room, a contemporary dressing room and an open office space/library.

Architect Thomas Wienands made great use of the existing structure and material character of this wide-open loft space, leaving as much of the wall and vaulted-ceiling brickwork exposed as possible – as well as massive steel columns, reinforced with I-beams and held in place by giant-sized rivets.

The newly-added elements are intentionally minimal, providing a smooth contrast to the roughness of the original space. In some cases, white walls enclose rooms or serve as half-height partitions between areas. In other instances, their tops curve to conform to the gentle slopes of the old ceilings.

The kitchen is less like a room and more like a loosely-defined zone, and other rooms follow suit to the extent possible – even the bathroom balances privacy with openness. This is definitely a design situation in which less is more – and new is not so much ‘better†as it is a foil for showing off the best of both worlds, perhaps analogous to the overall mixture that defines the wider area of Berlin itself (as shown in this remarkable exterior photograph).

The kitchen cabinets are made of brushed anodized aluminum. they are without handles and are opened through interventions or pressure.

a piece of purple Brazilian slate was selected for the countertop of the kitchen was

The oven is invisibly integrated into the furniture block. when in use, the front panel slides into the cabinet body .

An individual solution built-in sockets in the free-standing kitchen island.

the color of the concrete sink was achieved by adding pigments, the surface is only oiled and waxed.

The open loft space splays out to fifty feet at the far end, while the roof‘s angular trajectory culminates in a 24 foot wall of glass through which southern light pours in to illuminate the space.  A row of original long leaf pine columns support the massive antiques beams of this former manufacturing loft, while a fifty foot long storage wall which follows the splayed exterior wall serves a modern interdiction providing privacy for the bedroom and bath, and serving the storage needs of the owner.

The main floor of the sleek modern apartment is dominated by four working clocks housed in four 14-foot-high round windows, which provide nearly unobstructed views (well, except for the clock faces) out to the four points of the compass.

The penthouse sits atop one of the tallest buildings in Dumbo, the cobblestoned neighborhood that sprang to life in the 1980s in a former industrial area between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.

The buyer of the apartment need not worry about the nightmare of having four giant clocks each showing a different time. The four clocks are electronically synchronized to show exactly the same time.

The 3,000-square-foot main floor has a huge open living room, dining room and kitchen with 16-foot-high ceilings. The loft also includes a glass elevator and a staircase made of stainless steel, glass and oak. A glass-walled elevator and a three-story floating staircase at the center of the space lead to smaller floors that narrow toward the top of the tower. There are three bedrooms on the 2,300-square-foot second floor (watch your head as you walk along the exterior walls), and on the floor above that, a 988-square-foot open loft with a 15-foot ceiling. Finally, up a narrow staircase at the very top of the building is a tiny (well, compared to the loft, it’s actually 400-square-foot) windswept crowâ€s nest roof deck.

The windows provide nearly unobstructed views (except for the clock faces) out to the four points of the compass.

A glass-walled elevator and a three-story floating staircase at the center of the space lead to smaller floors that narrow toward the top of the tower.

The master bathroom.

There are three bedrooms on the 2,300-square-foot second floor (watch your head as you walk along the exterior walls).

Finally, up a narrow staircase at the very top of the building is a tiny windswept crow's nest.

The apartment was created by David Walentas, the creator of the Dumbo neighborhood itself, in an old industrial building built by a cardboard box manufacturer. Mr. Walentas renamed the factory the ClockTower Building and converted it first into offices for the New York State Labor Department, and then, in 1998, into 124 condominiums.

Mr. Walentas kept an apartment in the building, where he lives with his wife, Jane, as well as the apartment with the clocks on the 16th floor. He negotiated a deal with the condominium board a few years ago to incorporate the tower space into the 16th-floor apartment.

In an interview with the New York Times, Mr. Walentas shared a few insights about the apartment:

Mr. Walentas, 71, is the founder and principal of the Two Trees Management Company, which has developed and managed more than four million square feet of commercial and residential real estate, mostly in New York City. Mr. Walentas is also credited with establishing the Dumbo neighborhood in Brooklyn.

Q. Could you explain the genesis of the Dumbo name?

A. We were in SoHo almost 40 years ago, and then we did the Silk Building in NoHo. When I was in NoHo, I asked one of the artists, one of the kids, SoHo, NoHo, whatâ€s next? And somebody said, “Dumbo.” I said, Where the hell is Dumbo? He said, “Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.” So I came over one day, walked around the neighborhood and said, Wow!

Q. And thatâ€s where the bulk of your development has been since — by the Manhattan Bridge.

A. We bought two million square feet 30 years ago for $12 million, about $6 a foot, which today seems incredibly cheap. But for 20 years everybody thought I was the dumb in Dumbo; now they think Iâ€m a genius.

Q. What are you getting per square foot now?

A. We routinely sell condos for $1,000 a foot. We have a 6,000-square-foot triplex at One Main for $25 million — the Clock Tower.

Q. Do you think someone will pay the $25 million asking price?

A. I donâ€t know. Itâ€s kind of an icon — somewhere between real estate and art. Itâ€s really a spectacular space, with the best views of Lower Manhattan, the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, and New York Harbor. It has four 15-foot-diameter clock faces in each direction on the first level. It has a private elevator that goes up three levels in the center of the space, with a staircase around it. It has a private roof deck, which is half enclosed and half open.

Q. Did you and your wife, Jane, ever consider moving there?
A. Itâ€s just too big. Itâ€s really a showplace, a party place, a statement. We live right below the Clock Tower.

Q. Why do you have “No Guts No Glory” on your cuff?
A. Itâ€s on all my dress shirts. To succeed in life you have to take chances — no risk, no gain. People used to ask me what I do, and I said, I go to battle everyday.