Nine houses at the end of the land, bound as one book

I want a beautiful book on the world's most extraordinary cliffside and clifftop houses, homes built where they arguably should not be, hanging over the sea, cut into rock faces, perched on the edge of the world. A real publication, image-rich, the kind you open again and again.

Take me to houses that live on the edge: the modernist glass boxes cantilevered over the Pacific, the whitewashed villas stacked down Mediterranean cliffs, the concrete masterworks bolted into Atlantic headlands, the stone houses clinging to Greek and Amalfi rock, a lonely modern house on a Nordic fjord. Choose eight to ten, real or archetypal, and make each one breathtaking.

For every house, give me:

• The setting and the daring of it: how it holds to the cliff, what the architect did to make it possible, what it feels like to stand inside with nothing but air and water beyond the glass.
• Stunning photorealistic imagery: the hero shot of the house on its cliff at golden hour, the view out over the sea, the pool at the edge, an interior full of light, an intimate architectural detail. Several images each, so pictures carry the book.
• The character of the place: the materials, the light, the relationship to the water, what makes this one unforgettable.
• A few lines of evocative writing that make me want to live there.

Then a closing verdict: if you could wake up in one of them tomorrow, which and why.

Design it as an elegant architecture book: a stunning cover, generous layout, the images given the whole page where they earn it, quiet typography, the houses sequenced to build.

The standard: image-rich, breathtaking, one photographer's eye across the whole book, beautiful enough to sit next to the best architecture monographs on the shelf.