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.
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 improve the immune system in the hopes of a longer life.
“It has to do with the idea that you’re only as old as you think you are,” Stephen Holl said of the house after the couple’s 2008 purchase.
The price had already been reduced twice in 2019, falling to $1.495 million and again to $1.295 before eventually bottoming out at $1,125 in October 2020 after failing to attract a buyer for 26 consecutive months.
Now, with the price under $1 million the hope for Arakawa and Gins fans is that realtor Brown Harris Stevens will find an interested buyer and will give the age-reversing home a new life.
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^ These look like photos of the lesser-known "kill me now" house. Maybe there was a mix-up.
Miles, you're our Hamptons correspondent. What's the story here? It looks like the two artists who built this hated each other, and that each used parts of the house to make the other one suffer.
There's a whole philosophy behind Arakawa and Gins, who are more artists than architects. They wanted to explore how the (built) environment could extend longetivity via constant stimulation of body and mind - thus the whacky colors and geometries.
Imo a rationalization for a badly built house.
It's still priced above land value. And that would have to be discounted for the cost of demolition.
Pretty common story for Starchitect houses. No one wants to live in someone else's dream of a perfect life at this price point.
Nah, this house just suck. Those Hampton modern contemporary custom designed house actually sells way higher.
Man WTH, this tiny boring house in the same area sells higher than the "starchitect house". That is sad.
Oh man shouldn't have went in. Now its making me drool and cry at the same time. $5000 psf at that price point. What?
https://www.zillow.com/homedet...
Not a starchitect house, a crazy artist house. And that price is bottom of the market.
52 million to live in something that looks like it was built for a retail development in Orange County.
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