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Price hit an all-time low for the "lifespan-extending" Bioscleave House on Long Island

2021-07-01T20:31:00-04:00

Prices for a famed duo’s only realized US home seem to be on a permanent decline this month after hitting the market almost three years ago.

The Bioscleave House sits amongst exclusive real estate in the Hamptons and was the planned home of a pair of artists who together formed an entity now called the Reversible Destiny Foundation in 1988.

Arakawa and Madeline Gin were able to complete the house as an extension of an A-frame Carl Koch design from 1964 present at the one-acre site. The couple added two bedrooms, a bathroom and a sunken kitchen to the 2,700 square foot home they painted 52 different colors at a cost of over $2 million.

Image via Madeline Gins and Arakawa.

The house is now being listed on Zillow for $975,000, a 60% decrease from its original 2018 listed price. Buyers willing to try the bold experiment in living can enjoy the challenge of living in a home with uneven floors and a sloped front door. The design of the house is meant to challenge the occupants body and i...

Arakawa and Madeline Gins' avant-garde, Life-Span Extending Villa hits the market at $2.5 million

2018-08-22T14:13:00-04:00

The Bioscleave House (Life-Span Extending Villa), designed by avant-garde artists Madeline Gins and Arakawa, has hit the market, the four bedroom, two and a half bath house asking for $2,495,000 via Brown Harris Stevens.

Building upon the couple's fifty year body of research into solving death—what they saw as the ultimate design flaw—the house comes with the unique promise of staving off mortality. Commissioned by the art collector Angela Gallman back in 2007, it has been designed to empower its inhabitants to resist their own deaths and reverse the downhill course of human life.

Image via Madeline Gins and Arakawa.

The East Hampton home features walls of more than three dozen different colors and an undulating, dunelike floor that challenges the body in unexpected ways. Windows are placed at varying heights, there is an open flow of traffic, and the kitchen is sunken at the center of the house—all designed to rejuvenate whoever moves in.

The house, which cost slightly less than it...

Madeline Arakawa Gins, Visionary Architect, Dies at 72

2014-01-13T14:41:00-05:00

Madeline Arakawa Gins, a poet-turned-painter-turned-architect who publicly forswore mortality — and whose buildings, by her own account, were designed to pre-empt death for those living in them — died on Wednesday in Manhattan. She was 72. The cause was cancer, said Joke Post, the manager for architectural projects at the Reversible Destiny Foundation, which Ms. Gins and her husband, the Japanese-born artist known simply as Arakawa, established in 1987.