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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... View full entry
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... View full entry
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.
— mobile.nytimes.com
