The first few minutes at Morning View are almost unfair. You walk across a koi pond, then into a soaring two-story glass atrium. Look up and the ceilings climb roughly 25 feet. Look west and the Pacific takes over. Then somebody tells you the house was designed by Buff & Hensman, and suddenly all that glass, volume, indoor-outdoor movement and Japanese-influenced landscaping makes even more sense. But here’s the part that really gets us: Zuma Beach is about a three-minute walk away. That changes the whole story. This isn’t an architectural house where you admire Malibu from a bluff. You can wake up, grab a towel, walk down to one of Southern California’s great beaches, come home for lunch and spend the afternoon by your own ocean-facing pool. Great architecture and actual beach life don’t always arrive together. Here they do.