#brutalist house

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Brutalism in the desert. This is Joshua Tree, California.  It has 3bd. 3ba. and they want a whopping $12M for it. Look at this. Someone recognized it as rendering, so for $12M you don’t even get the house, just the plans.

Looks like something out of Star Wars, even the landscape.

Nice view.

This home is confusing and as usual, the real estate photos are all mixed up. I THINK that’s the kitchen island thru this door.

And, this is the cook top. Have you ever seen such a kitchen?

That might be a glimpse of the kitchen, but that’s all they show. 

There are quite a few built-ins, but they’re mostly made of cement, except for the shelving in the living room.

B/c it’s in the desert, a part of the living room was left completely open. 

I don’t know what this structure is. 

This is the living room’s open wall. You could jump right off the floor.

The living room is on the 2nd level with stairs to the 3rd level of the house, which is the last level.

Some of the spaces appear dark. 

The bds. look basically the same except for the shape of the light above the bed.

The main bed. It has a large overhead light, curved glass wall, and built-in nightstands with lights. 

Round tower window in the bedroom.

One of the baths. 

A second bedroom has sliders to the patio.

Here’s a cement bench with a nook at the entrance to the pool.

Entrance to the home.

There’s a mesh gate, or maybe it’s glass.

Here you can see the 3 floors. 

The pool looks kind of small, unless it’s reflection pool feature.

The courtyard is private and walled in, but id doesn’t offer any shade and the cement floor must get very hot. 

https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/ca/joshua-tree/5156-benji-ave/pid_52274184/

[ultimatepad]

Casa Paracho, Dedo de Dios, Michoacan, Mexico,

Courtesy: GAM & ZUN-ZUN

[arc-hus]

Chi's House, Dalat, Vietnam - Tad.atelier

[germanpostwarmodern]

Alsteens House (1967-69) in Overijsse, Belgium, by Renaat Braem

[humanoidhistory]

Ashington House, London, photographed by Simon Phipps.

[londonedge]

A closer look at the service tower at Balfron Tower, Poplar

[stil-lindigo]

a girl i went to high school with is on holiday to the US at the moment, and she recently posted a photo of her in front of the White House, smiling. I can't stop thinking about it, because my first thought seeing it was "what is there to smile about?"

[marzipanandminutiae]

still not over the absolutely braindead take that "if you say brutalism looks dystopian, you care more about your aesthetic than people having homes!!!!"

like

can't criticize Shein or you must want their workers to be unemployed

oh you don't like that restaurant? guess you want the people eating there to STARVE

fuck both roses AND bread; nutrient-dense gray EnergyCubes would keep you alive so wishing for a better sensory experience is basically capitalist bootlicking

(I agree that considering Soviet-era brutalist apartment buildings in the context of "shit we need housing; put something up quick" is important for those specific structures- though I think that can coexist with "wow that's ugly" -but. this person did not stop there)

[nestedneons]

By jilt with stablediffusion

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Cyberpunk art commissions

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[toyastales]

I could live here.

[moodboardmix]

The House at Lizard Island, Australia,

JDA Co

Photos by Peter Bennetts

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Kanye West, legally known as Ye, is selling the Malibu, California home he ruined, for $53M (He bought it for $57M). The house was designed by one of the world’s most eminent architects, Tadao Ando, and Ye stripped it clean of windows, doors, electrical, and many of the architect’s signature interior finishes.

Sitting since 2021, the mansion is now rotting. Wait. This is $53M for a cement shell, basically. The brutalist style home has 1,200 tons of poured concrete and 200 tons of steel reinforcement to hold it all together with 12- 60 ft. pylons sunk into the sand.

The beachside house was once the epitome of artistic ingenuity.

The floor-to-ceiling windows facing the water have long been removed, leaving the rear of the building entirely open to the elements.

All of the interior photos are before it was gutted. The alleged plan was to try to turn the mansion into a “Bat Cave” so he could “hide from the Clintons and Kardashians.”  

Ye’s new celebrity realtor believes the renovations are a selling point b/c he left a blank canvas, making it easier for the new owners to design the home exactly to their liking.  

The house needs windows and doors, along with plumbing, electrical, HVAC and interior finishes, b/c they've all been removed.

Although Ye removed the interior finishes, “this creates an unbelievably rare opportunity to buy a Picasso on the water," said the agent.

“This architect is known for his concrete work, which is what remains,” he says, "It was a very minimalist interior previously and will likely continue to be that in order to allow the architecture to speak louder than the finishes.”

The plan was to go off grid. The contractor said, “Ye wanted no electricity. He only wanted plants, candles, battery lights; and to have everything open and dark. You can’t keep food in that house, because you had no refrigerator left. You had no windows. I had seagulls flying in.” 

The former architectural tour de force was only one of the few private homes in the United States designed by the renowned Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect. Best known for his minimalist structures and “smooth-as-silk” concrete.

The upper-level terrace pictured here comes out from a main bedroom suite that takes up the entire top floor.

I don't know what to think. Everything is gone- no utilities, none of the original elements the architect is known for, not even any windows. And, he's only knocked off $4M from what he paid for it, complete.

It's rotting from the inside out. Here's a collapsed concrete wall and rusted railings. On top of all of this, it's unsafe b/c concrete is falling. It's like a total knockdown.

[ultimatepad]

Oceanic Solitude, Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland,

Monika Pancheva

[arc-hus]

Module House, Rocha, Uruguay - Brandl Huber

[germanpostwarmodern]

House Van Wassenhove (1970-74) in Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium, by Juliaan Lampens. Photo by Roger Laute.

[lividiah]

Alexandra Road Estate

Neave Brown, 1979