New Delhi, March 29 -- A 9,000 square feet house in New York's East Hampton recently got sold for $17.77 million, breaking a record for the town's Northwest Woods section. The modernist building, known as the Bar House, is named after the two bar-like structures stacked in perpendicular style to form an L-shaped structure.

Real estate firm Brown Harris Stevens agent David Tenenbaum, who got the buyers, said that the deal broke a local record for the house located between Sag Harbor and Springs, New York Post said in an exclusive report.

The house is made of glass and steel, with floor to ceiling windows wrapping it up. A section of the house provides treetop views of the landscape and acts as a cover for the outdoor living space adorned...