Tasteful Friends: 68M for your very own penitentiary

This makes me sad.

We like it!

That place is horrifying!

Land Value only.

Charming...so cozy.

There’s a Spinal Top joke in this, but I can’t come up with it.

just let those poolboys try to get out!

The fireplace looks like something Freddy Kruger would have in his living room.

I swear they filmed AHS Apocalypse here.

Can anyone read what it says on the bathtub? "Please drown me and end this torture", maybe?

If you see “runes” embossed or engraved on something, you know the owner of that thing is some kind of supremacist or batshit crazy.

WTF

The pool looks nice.

This will probably appeal to some rap artist (who's actually been to prison) and can also appreciate those kind of thick concrete barrier walls to prevent a drive-by shooting.

R13 = Century 21 Employee of the Month.

Also, many of the rooms look like they can be easily hosed down in case there's ever any blood splatter.

Wow. That's horrific. I know it's attempting to replicate brutalist architecture, though, even in that respect it seems to fail and mixes in some unbelievably cheesy design choices like those bathrooms. What the hell is the story behind this place? Who commissioned it? Who is the architect??

East Berlin communist chic.

Like living in a post - apocalyptic video game

R16 This article at SFGate talks about the property and its owner, James Jannard, "scion of Oakley sunglasses and sportswear" and what he was trying to accomplish in building it. It sounds like there was more than one architect involved. It's main inspiration is supposed to be Stonehenge.

Dissection room?

This is the most autistic fucking house I have ever seen.

That there is a LAIR

Yasss, Queeen

A dissection would certainly give it some much needed color.

The view and pool are nice.

We've found our new Datalounge World Headquarters! -+

Zees would be very nice home for me and Barron after I divorce fat orange retard husband.

50 Shades of Gray - The House

The owner, James Jannard just broke the California record for home pricing when he sold his Malibu estate for 210M. Unbelievable.

He could have hired Richard Meier for that kind of money and he went with this instead?

Mid-century Mengele - stunning!

Gawd. It looks like a bad Star Wars set.

OMG, R28, is this a Strip Mall or a residence?

Truly R128 this is the most hideously designed mansion I have seen in a long time. It's like a parody of classical architecture. Who signs off on something like this?

R8- I was just thinking that they filmed one of the final episodes of Beef there... Wasn't this Maria Bello's character's home????

Very Kehlsteinhaus look to the place.

No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die!

This fucker creates some of the tackiest sunglasses on Earth and then creates...two of the most hideous mansions I've ever seen. The interior of the Malibu place is actually fine - but the outside looks like a cheap McMansion.

Make is make sense!

I sorta like the outside but OMG the inside, it feels like a prison.

R20 Is this the room from the mob movie Hostel? Or an attempt to recreate it. Scary realistic.

The listing says "industrial accents"!!

I can just hear Robin Leach now , “with Nuremberg wishes and steam punk dreams!”

“Saw” meets “Purge”

Good locale for a skin-heads and punks orgy.

Is there a panic (attack) room for when you become absolutely frightened of your own house 😱

There should be criminal charges...

That Jannard guy is very “I’m 70 but everyone tells me I look 35”.

Architect: "What would you like me to design, you did mention modern. What did you have in mind?" Customer: "I want it cold. Sterile, as sterile as possible. As brutal as brutalism can get. I want a place to store my Batmobile too."

It looks like something out of a Justice League episode at least. I'm sorry, but whoever designed this, really wanted to look like something out of fiction. And it's not fun at all!

If they ever do a remake of Wizard of Oz and need a castle for the Wicked Witch of the West . . .

Now all of you morons who pay ridiculous prices for $5 worth of sunglasses can see where your money went.

What the ever-loving fuck is that monstrosity? It does look like the lair of some super villain. Does it have rooms where the walls close in with blades coming out?

Even the pool looks cold and unwelcoming.

I think it is an improved version of this stunning structure in downtown Chicago.

Ish all shmenn?

I have a friend, a very beautiful woman, who dates a guy who’s friends with Jannard’s son, Jim Jr.

She has been there many times and has posted pics of the place, and some of its stunning view.

She told me she was really turned off by the place when she first got there, saying something like “brutalism is supposed to be for the outside only!” But she said the place really grew on her and she slept like a baby the second time they slept over.

^^^ sorry, I forgot to say where she’s posted the pics. On Instagram. She lives in LA now buy used to live here in nyc. I saw the pics and asked her about the place because the views are stunning.

Fuck this is absolutely hideous. OP, I think you have found the ugliest house ever. Thanks, I hate it. I've actually seen prisons that look nicer inside and out. Living in this would be a punishment in itself

As R3 says, its a land value only proposition, although I guess you could gut it and make it into a huge carpark, cover it all with greenery, and then plonk an actual nice home on top of it. Otherwise I'd flatten it and start over

[quote]If you see “runes” embossed or engraved on something, you know the owner of that thing is some kind of supremacist or batshit crazy.

R10 Why not both?

R20 I wondered about the purpose of that room too, and yes, it DOES look like a room where dissections would be done. And maybe have been, I would not be surprised

The house at R28 isnt great either, but at least it isnt an absolute monstrosity and is actually livable inside. The exterior is bad but at least it isnt offensive like the one OP posted

If I had to choose something in a modern style that Falling Water knockoff that was the subject of a thread here linked below is far far nicer, not sterile like this horror

[quote] I wondered about the purpose of that room too, and yes, it DOES look like a room where dissections would be done. And maybe have been, I would not be surprised

It looks like some kind of gallery or something. It’s set up like a little museum. Probably used to have things out on display.

I just don’t know where to start

Reminds me of the house from The Invisible Man. Steve Martin likes concrete houses...maybe they could sell it to him.

That's about as hideous as it gets. The only person I could see buying that monstrosity is Kanye West, and he doesn't have the money for something like that anymore.

It looks like something from a sci-fi horror movie. I predict it will go through many price reductions before it ever sells.

Needs more books.

It looks like a Vin Diesel film set on Crematoria.

It looks like something that would be created by a Patrick Bateman type, if he wanted to live in his very own Galactic Empire's Death Star. It's a horrendously ugly concrete and cement monstrosity that doesn't have an ounce of warmth and I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me that it has a hidden trophy room in some corner, where the current owner keeps mementos of his victims.

Who would EVER want to waste USD 68 million on this aberration that will have to be demolished so they can build a decent home in tis place, when they could get a MUCH nicer house with actual land surrounding it for a modicum of that price? It just doesn't make any sense.

Of course, some Saudi degenerate or Indian crook will love it and cover everything in gold, add rococo furniture and hideous 1980s sofas and keep some of their enslaved staff there, after they've stolen their passports.

He basically built it as a storage locker/meeting space. It looks a bit like a conference center, so that makes sense. There's way too much building for the plot of land and I'd imagine that it creates drainage problems for nearby properties when LA gets one of its occasional driving rains.

You can't say it didn't commit to the bit.

[quote] It's main inspiration is supposed to be Stonehenge.

Are ancient monuments allowed to sue for slander?

Asking for a friend.

Because Stonehenge has an infinity pool and is made of cement?

It tells you something when people can't live with art. This place looks like the android factory. I'd kill myself here.

[quote] That place is horrifying!

‘Tis.

Maybe, Elon will buy this to imprison his daughter Vivian.

Now's the time on Sprockets when we dance.

It would be easy to clean up the guts and blood spatter. I like it!

It needs a little color.

Finally, a place to store my Millennium Falcon.

In that one article, it says Jannard uses this place as his "urban pied-à-terre."

I'm going to get you, Austin Powers!

Tax the rich

Looks like it was designed by Delia Deetz and Otho Fenlock from Beetlejuice.

I think it’s what Eraserhead predicted

Brutalist. The design whose time should never have come.

Perfect for an Elon and Grimes love nest.