Posted on 11/15/2017 4:06:54 AM PST by ETL
The estate of the late, great Dick Clark has just price-chopped his beloved Malibu hideaway by $250,000, bringing the price down from $3.25 million to $2,995,000.
After two years on the Malibu housing market, this Flintstone-esque home atop a bluff got a price cut for the second time, as first reported by Curbed. It came down $250,000 in the summer of 2013, and without a buyer in sight, the price has been reduced by a quarter million dollars once again.
One of Malibu’s landmark properties, Clark’s stone home features unparalleled 360 degree views of the Pacific Ocean, Channel Islands, Boney Mountains, Serrano Valley, Los Angeles sunsets and sparkling city lights.
This unusually imaginative architectural creation is nestled atop a mountain on eye-popping 22.89 acres and features 1 bedroom and 2 bathrooms, as well as breathtaking ocean and mountain views. Truly exceptional and one-of-a-kind from within and without – the architecture of this home seamlessly marries form and function.
The interior space is extremely voluminous and features an expanse of glass to capture the views from every room of this home. Vaulted ceilings enhance the living room and dining room with its wood burning fireplace intimate seating areas. The master suite is at spacious and intimate. According to the listing agent, “this is art as architecture at it’s finest.”
Clark’s Malibu retreat offers seclusion, privacy and serenity, but it still just minutes from the beach. Before his death at age 82 in April 2012, Dick and his wife Kari used this home as a weekend getaway.
Ditto. To all three.
"See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil..."
One bedroom, two baths, world’s youngest teenager, hmm, guess what HE used to do when the cameras weren’t rolling...
You’re kidding right? That place is freakin’ awesome :-)
Plus, you knock it down and the coastal commission might let you build a subterranean shack in ten years of wrangling.
Clark was married three times. His first marriage was to Barbara Mallery in 1952; the couple had one son, Richard A. Clark, and divorced in 1961. He married Loretta Martin in 1962; the couple had two children, Duane and Cindy, and divorced in 1971. His third marriage, to Kari Wigton, whom he married in 1977, lasted until his death.[48]-wikipedia
Apparently you've never lived in a place like this. It's aged. It's ugly. It's unusable.
To renovate and leave it looking like it does would cost an arm and a leg. It would still be cheaper to tear it down and rebuild it just like it is than to renovate.
Will! Mah!
Now we know why they named the town “Bedrock”!
Fay Jones, influenced and perhaps an understudy of Wright, has no leaking houses or buildings in his portfolio and was certainly daring.
...and...and...and don’t even get me started on that idiot Frank Gehry.
I’ll bid $50 for it, ten of which would be from the embarrassment of living there.
Yeah, that liberal jerk doesn't seem to know anything about engineering or mechanical stuff. He just comes out with whatever dopey crap that pops into his head and has the engineers and builders do the real work of somehow figuring a way for the ridiculous structure to work.
When the Hyatt Regency Skywalks Collapse occurred, we had quite a bit of self examination between designers, architects, owners, construction managers, fabricators and builders.
An old industrial design expert was being interviewed on a radio forum. He said that a lot of problems were built into any project by what he called “Gee-Whiz Factor.” The interviewer asked what he meant. He said that problems started with the Architect or Designer desiring a moment when the Owner, User or Viewer would look at an aspect of a building and say, “Gee Whiz, I wonder how that damn thing stays up there.”
Solving the material selection, engineering, methods of construction and other various aspects to achieve that desire was a trail of land mines to a successful project. Many projects would be more successful, less costly and certainly less risky if that Gee Whiz Element as never conceived as it is generally unnecessary in the end use of the project. Guys like Gehry come up with this stupid stuff for just those reasons.
The price surprised me too-————why so cheap?
The location is awesome.
Just out of curiosity I notice that both of your images of Fallingwater are in a close to 21:9 aspect ratio, (2.28:1 vs 2.33:1). It’s one of my favorites for pannos (wide but not too wide) but one doesn’t see too many images published in that format. Are you a fan of 21:19 ?
BTW, I very much like your fantasy house. In my case a friend owns an island about 200 km. north of Toronto. One of the features is a large granite dome with glacial groves. The back part of the dome drops about 20 feet with old-growth forest at ground level. The front of the dome slopes gradually at first and then drops rapidly to a bay.
I’ve hiked up there many times and in my mind’s eye I can see a geodesic dome of roughly the same dimensions on top of the existing one with the floor of the geodesic dome extending past the drop-off to make the rear half of the upper floor a kind of tree-house with stairs leading down to the forest level where there would be a jalousied, screened-in porch where you could sit in the forest without being chewed up by no-see-ums and deerflys.
Finally, an elevator to get people and supplies from the boat house up to the dome & I’d be set, although it would probably take a lot more to make it habitable over the Canadian winter, so, at best it would be a real neat Summer cottage.
The only other problem is that it’s in Canada. ‘Nuff said.
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