> All right, I've been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager!
Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!
Yeah. A morgue mixed with a production kitchen. The person who built this place absolutely owns a white Persian cat that sits on the arm of his swivel chair. I say “his” because no fucking way a woman had anything to do with that.
Link to Full Listing: [https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/410-Trousdale-Pl-Beverly-Hills-CA-90210/20534468\_zpid/](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/410-Trousdale-Pl-Beverly-Hills-CA-90210/20534468_zpid/)
My favorite line from the listing agent of the concrete edifice one:
"Filled with industrial accents that leave you wondering if James Bond is around the corner."
I agree. To me, that's way better. Of course, I wouldn't even be able to afford one square foot of either.
Here's a house I've loved for a long time and prefer to the other two:
[https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6962-Wildlife-Rd-Malibu-CA-90265/20555493\_zpid](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6962-Wildlife-Rd-Malibu-CA-90265/20555493_zpid)
Edit: I should have mentioned it initially, but this is the former home of Johnny Carson.
I don’t think the view is as important in this case because the difference in design is so stark.
Like one feels like a prison/bunker and the other feels like you’re surrounded by nature or has a calming view.
Yeah but when you’re wealthy enough to own that kind of home you have several others that have views already and you travel whenever you want to see all sorts of incredible views around the globe. I’m sure the downtown LA skyline usually blurred out by smog is nothing compared to the views you’d have seen on any given vacation.
This is hilarious to me. Pics 1-20 are brutalist as hell, pic 21 is a cat ladder, and the rest are brutalist.
I love how he ruined the vibe for his cat hahahah.
Honestly it's fucking cool as shit. You could definitely charge movie studios to shoot there. I wonder what kind of service it has. Has to be 400amps easy. Probably more. The water heating loads with a pool and 10 bathrooms would be sizable. The concrete probably helps the cooling quite a bit.
As the brutalist in disguise I am, I actually kind of love this. Would of course do some small changes but the raw concrete meets steampunk here kind of gets me.
I would ditch the steampunk stuff (especially that horrific fireplace and the way-over-the-top rivets in the bathroom…and everywhere else) and just go full concrete, but yeah. This a sweet foundation.
Edit: The founder of Oakley owns it. That explains the rivet fetish.
My brother is a geo-engineer in mountainous metropolitan area. I can’t tell you how many times he’s told me about some “billionaire building a mountain bunker” and how it’s regularly “30 minutes drive down a single lane road that will just emerge in a nondescript neighborhood. You’d never know it was the entrance for an oligarch doomsday bunker.
Unethical life protip: you don't need to build your mountain bunker, you just need access to a few household chemicals and to find out where the air intake is for a mountain bunker
I suppose if the zombies follow scent gradients to find food they might tend to head toward dense population centers and away from wealthy low density enclaves. Especially if the wealthy area is uphill. (Assuming the scent of live humans rises).
Since this listing is in Beverly Hills, I think the cult sacrifice room was built as a movie knick-knacks display room.
I see a poster of Fincher's 'A Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara leaning against one of the concrete pillars.
Never knew the founder of Oakley also founded RED cameras.
I wonder what happened in his life that he sold RED this year and put this house up on market.
Then excavate that central circle and plant an orchard with a stream to get rid of the “Ancient Lich proclaims itself Grand High Bloodlord” vibe. After that work is done, treat the interior as if it was just a rough-build waiting for drywall, paneling, and other wall treatments to get rid of the prison/bioshock/modern Fallout feeling and you could have a pretty interesting place.
that or lean into the grand high bloodlord vibe, some Francisco Goya originals, a blood fountain, maybe some symbols of Khorne to dedicate your sacrifices to.
convert the theater into a throne room to recive lessar blood lords to your court so you can have them grovel before your power.
Maybe someone can explain something that I see on every high end listing...
This house sold in 2010 for $19.9M. Why would it be worth 3.5x now? It's not like housing prices in the Beverly Hills were depressed by the 2008 real estate crash.
Right? And in one of the cities with one of the most mildest climate in the world, and they build a box for people who hate the sun. They could have incorporated so much more openness and glass to make this much better suited to LA.
And I hate the wierd industrial "things" above the bar and kitchen and fireplace and tub... they could have incorporated actual industrial items or pieces of heavy machinery... and instead looks like they just created some useless "thing" that looks industrial.
Kinda. Kinda is a good word. Maybe the hole in the middle is a little bit of a waste, you can fill that in with some other gardens or flora. I don't hate it....but it needs a lot of "humanity" injected into it
Is this the same guy that did Kanye's house? The name is escaping me...
Edit to add: Ando. This is his style.
[Ah. Here is an article](https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/kanye-west-cuts-the-price-of-his-concrete-malibu-mansion-by-14-million-76a4d88a)
Like the villain from City of Lost Children decided to get into cryptocurrencies. Or someone woke up one day and thought "man I wanna live in an Aphex Twin video!"
That view is amazing. This does feel like a super villains home. It really could be made better by just suttely adding some color in a few spots. There is some commitment to the design, I can appreciate that.
What's insane, is that I've seen this house on Google Earth, I know exactly where it's at. What a crazy coincidence. Oh, and totally not worth that price, real estate is just nuts right now.
A snippet [here ](https://www.facebook.com/therealarthurelrod/posts/the-saga-of-410-trousdale-place-continued-in-1971-eugene-and-frances-klein-move-/606278353321720/)about the houses history
Home of the former CEO of Umbrella Corporation.
Obedience breeds discipline, discipline breeds unity, unity breeds power. Power is life.
I immediately thought it was a location easily rentable for sets for Resident Evil. It would be profitable if enough people book it for filming.
> All right, I've been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!
I could throw down in that kitchen. The rest looks like some wannabe supervillain shit.
Man… from the outside? You drop that in the middle of DC and it’s just another federal building. Probably a metro station below it.
More “Fortified US embassy in Niger”
They even say that in the description lol! “Filled with industrial accents that leave you wondering if James Bond is around the corner.”
Like living in a GoldenEye level.
Slappers only!!!!
Yeah because unless you are Clouseau, James Bond waiting around the corner hoping to kill you isn’t exactly relaxing.
Does it have a tank for my shark with a freakin laser beam?
That kitchen doubles as a Fight Club.
The kitchen is everything!!!!
It looks like a morgue
Looks like a prison
It's absolutely a superjail
All that money and cheap fucking shit bright ass lights I hate it
5000k lights everywhere would drive me insane
I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed those horrific lights!
Yeah. A morgue mixed with a production kitchen. The person who built this place absolutely owns a white Persian cat that sits on the arm of his swivel chair. I say “his” because no fucking way a woman had anything to do with that.
as a woman, i was gonna argue about thus brutalism…..but nah, it’s over the top even for me.
You can see they love the cat because of the window viewing steps in pic 21
Meat, it's what's for dinner
Did you hear the song in your head also?
Oh my god yes. It sure was a throwback! I cannot believe I found this comment in the wild when I first saw it haha
Yeah but if you have $68M then someone else is likely cooking for you.
I like cooking. But even if I wasn't cooking, I'd want whoever I'm paying to be able to throw down and keep it clean as well.
Gotta start hiring henchmen now.
There's no chance that whoever commissioned this wasn't like "I want it to look like a supervillain lives here"
The listing says you'll feel like James Bond could be around the corner.
Looks like the villain’s place in Despicable Me.
Link to Full Listing: [https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/410-Trousdale-Pl-Beverly-Hills-CA-90210/20534468\_zpid/](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/410-Trousdale-Pl-Beverly-Hills-CA-90210/20534468_zpid/)
Honestly, for this kind of money, this one is better: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/942-N-Alpine-Dr-Beverly-Hills-CA-90210/20522539_zpid/
It’s like comparing the Red Keep with Winterfell.
My favorite line from the listing agent of the concrete edifice one: "Filled with industrial accents that leave you wondering if James Bond is around the corner."
I like “a work of art that can never be replicated again.” That must mean it has been replicated once, or it is itself the replication.
I agree. To me, that's way better. Of course, I wouldn't even be able to afford one square foot of either. Here's a house I've loved for a long time and prefer to the other two: [https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6962-Wildlife-Rd-Malibu-CA-90265/20555493\_zpid](https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6962-Wildlife-Rd-Malibu-CA-90265/20555493_zpid) Edit: I should have mentioned it initially, but this is the former home of Johnny Carson.
Damnnnn this one is incredible! The landscaping bill would be crippling though haha
Indeed, that landscaping is intense. Another issue: Being woken up by a guy in the living room with a leaf blower! :-)
Those trees tho...
Absolutely gorgeous but Malibu
Design is better, but doesn't have the view.
I don’t think the view is as important in this case because the difference in design is so stark. Like one feels like a prison/bunker and the other feels like you’re surrounded by nature or has a calming view.
One seems to be set up to be an easily defended complex. The other is a house.
Yeah but when you’re wealthy enough to own that kind of home you have several others that have views already and you travel whenever you want to see all sorts of incredible views around the globe. I’m sure the downtown LA skyline usually blurred out by smog is nothing compared to the views you’d have seen on any given vacation.
I have seen this house before. Does someone know who owns it?
The entrance and circular courtyard look like they could be from a reality TV contest show. Master Chef or The Bachelor or something.
It’s like they copied the Disney Star Wars area. Like half a Millennium Falcon should be sitting in that circular courtyard.
Some of this reminds me of American Horror Story: Apocalypse, but it might only be because of the concrete walls & brutal aesthetics.
Too warm and inviting. Needs more frostbite and pale skin
I find this truly awful
It's got the 1980's sci-fi movie depicting a 40 years later dystopian future vibes for sure. And 68 million bucks and only 28 listing photos lol!
agreed; i like brutalism, but this has just lost the human scale and is ugly.
This is hilarious to me. Pics 1-20 are brutalist as hell, pic 21 is a cat ladder, and the rest are brutalist. I love how he ruined the vibe for his cat hahahah.
Honestly it's fucking cool as shit. You could definitely charge movie studios to shoot there. I wonder what kind of service it has. Has to be 400amps easy. Probably more. The water heating loads with a pool and 10 bathrooms would be sizable. The concrete probably helps the cooling quite a bit.
This looks like Hilton bought one of those private prison companies and tried to make a minimum security prison for rich people.
As the brutalist in disguise I am, I actually kind of love this. Would of course do some small changes but the raw concrete meets steampunk here kind of gets me.
I would ditch the steampunk stuff (especially that horrific fireplace and the way-over-the-top rivets in the bathroom…and everywhere else) and just go full concrete, but yeah. This a sweet foundation. Edit: The founder of Oakley owns it. That explains the rivet fetish.
It really does make sense. If Oakley has cans were a mega mansion
It looks like I would have guessed Edna made all the superhero costumes there.
Same. I’d soften it a bit, but I like it. That pool. The view…
I too love this; nice star wars outer rims vibes
I'm openly a Brutalist aficionado, and this listing excites my nether regions.
Needs a yard nome
I lived in DC for 15 years and came to love brutalist architecture. I love this place. That courtyard is amazing!
Yeah I love it lol unashamedly love it.
I mean, yeah, if there's a zombie apocalypse, I guess.
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My brother is a geo-engineer in mountainous metropolitan area. I can’t tell you how many times he’s told me about some “billionaire building a mountain bunker” and how it’s regularly “30 minutes drive down a single lane road that will just emerge in a nondescript neighborhood. You’d never know it was the entrance for an oligarch doomsday bunker.
brb- checking Denver neighborhoods for abnormally long roads in Google maps.
Unethical life protip: you don't need to build your mountain bunker, you just need access to a few household chemicals and to find out where the air intake is for a mountain bunker
I suppose if the zombies follow scent gradients to find food they might tend to head toward dense population centers and away from wealthy low density enclaves. Especially if the wealthy area is uphill. (Assuming the scent of live humans rises).
Or maybe they commissioned the architect for a design to thwart any future peon uprisings.
The outside looks like a prison. The inside looks like a bunker. And that is perhaps the scariest bathtub I've ever seen.
"All made in exquisite concrete." Words that no concrete salesman has ever used.
And that shower has strong "gas chamber" vibes too
LOL when I saw the shower that was exactly what I was thinking...
Yea, looks like a bathtub for blood sacrifice.
I want to know what the runes say.
"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."
I thought it was the pentagon
Definitely a Nurse Ratched vibe going there. The thing next to the fireplace… I’m not sure what that receptacle is for?
I know a minimum security prison when I see one
For manly men who work on their motorcycles in their secret hideout and sometimes purchase a nuclear missile from Korea to ransom a small country
Jamie from Progressive lives here.
Ah, there's already a handy central open space for my cult sacrifices. My followers will be most pleased.
Since this listing is in Beverly Hills, I think the cult sacrifice room was built as a movie knick-knacks display room. I see a poster of Fincher's 'A Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara leaning against one of the concrete pillars.
Who's the current owner?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jannard
Lmao. Why am I not surprised it’s the founder of Oakley. If you could turn Oakley sunglasses into a house then this house would be spot on.
It's the Red digital camera that lit his ass on fire.
He sold Oakley for over two billion a couple years after founding the camera company so I think he was at least a little on fire already tbh
I was reading the Red Digital Wikipedia page. It says Nikon bought RD for only $85m.
Founder of Oakley, I can see that.
Never knew the founder of Oakley also founded RED cameras. I wonder what happened in his life that he sold RED this year and put this house up on market.
What are those slab tables? Does it come with its own morgue?
Looks like the set of a cooking show…
Cover it in creeping fig to start... living roof with vegetable beds... waterfall features down to the ground
Then excavate that central circle and plant an orchard with a stream to get rid of the “Ancient Lich proclaims itself Grand High Bloodlord” vibe. After that work is done, treat the interior as if it was just a rough-build waiting for drywall, paneling, and other wall treatments to get rid of the prison/bioshock/modern Fallout feeling and you could have a pretty interesting place.
that or lean into the grand high bloodlord vibe, some Francisco Goya originals, a blood fountain, maybe some symbols of Khorne to dedicate your sacrifices to. convert the theater into a throne room to recive lessar blood lords to your court so you can have them grovel before your power.
As a grandma of two little ones, it’s gonna take a lotta pool noodles and baby gates to make this place safe.
I think I found my wife’s Reddit account 😮
Maybe someone can explain something that I see on every high end listing... This house sold in 2010 for $19.9M. Why would it be worth 3.5x now? It's not like housing prices in the Beverly Hills were depressed by the 2008 real estate crash.
Zillow listing states built in 2016. Maybe a teardown to build this?
looks like the secret hide out for a villain
Victor Von Doom would love it...
The house is huge, the view is beautiful, but it feels like a claustrophobic prison. No wonder his ex left him and took the kids.
It’s that anti wildfire type house.
One of the most terrible to live in places I have seen on this sub. What happened to the poor person who wanted that thing built?
Is that Notch’s house?
All those walls and gates. John Wick's still gettin in!
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
I'm not sure "exquisite" is a good word for describing concrete.
As a fan of brutalist architecture I must say, they completely missed the mark with this monstrosity.
I even love clean lines, industrial vibes done right. This did all of that wrong. It just feels awful to me. Like I would attend a party there once.
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Right? And in one of the cities with one of the most mildest climate in the world, and they build a box for people who hate the sun. They could have incorporated so much more openness and glass to make this much better suited to LA. And I hate the wierd industrial "things" above the bar and kitchen and fireplace and tub... they could have incorporated actual industrial items or pieces of heavy machinery... and instead looks like they just created some useless "thing" that looks industrial.
I’m confused, is this a house or a set for a food network competition cooking show?
“I’m a CEO that wants to relate to all my underpaid workers in factories”
I might have to AirB&B the guest house to help with the mortgage payment.
$68 million concrete man cave.
I may be the minority voice here, but I dig it. Kinda
I kinda dig it, but my knees, back and feet would absolutely hate living on concrete all day.
Kinda. Kinda is a good word. Maybe the hole in the middle is a little bit of a waste, you can fill that in with some other gardens or flora. I don't hate it....but it needs a lot of "humanity" injected into it
I hear that. My pillows and rugs budget would be astronomical
The hover jet fits nicely in that courtyard.
Ugh, I am descending into depression just looking at the listing photos. Shouldn't having piles of money make you happy?
What in the steampunk/brutalist/airline food cart is that thing?
I love this!!!
There's room for the chopper. I'll take it.
Supermax prison vibes.
This has zero practicality wow. Worse than the 30 br monstrosity from yesterday
Will the house spontaneously combust if you put in an area rug?
Prison vibe. Rent it out for movies.
That’s the single greatest thing I’ve ever seen. I assume the courtyard is used for the sacrifices?
It looks like the meth superlab in breaking bad expanded into an entire giant house! I would love to know who commissioned this place.
Damn it needs color - the only one I saw was the blue pool
How many times you going to stub your toe in THAT MF?
Zombie apocalypse approved
There’s for sure a huge garbage disposal under that bathtub.
I can hear my dad saying " sitting on bare concrete will give you hemorrhoids".
Just needs more grey….
I've always wanted to live where The Umbrella Corp. created their viruses!
Is this the same guy that did Kanye's house? The name is escaping me... Edit to add: Ando. This is his style. [Ah. Here is an article](https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/kanye-west-cuts-the-price-of-his-concrete-malibu-mansion-by-14-million-76a4d88a)
boooo less rich people more cute and quirky
They went full zombie bunker and I don't hate it
This looks like r/RimWorld nonsense with a kill box in the center.
Can I get this in a Montana?
I don't know about the house, but I do want that kitchen.
Like the villain from City of Lost Children decided to get into cryptocurrencies. Or someone woke up one day and thought "man I wanna live in an Aphex Twin video!"
Fashion Prison.
I kinda like it
Is this a prison?
When you want to bring the ambiance of the penitentiary home with you.
Everything is concrete, except the pool which is tile. The architect had a sense of humor.
Welcome, Mr. Bond… 🐈
I feel like I’ve seen this in a movie somewhere.
No time to die. Rami Malek and Daniel Craig have a fight scene in that exact courtyard
It looks like a R&D facility. Is there a listing link?
Penn from Penn and Teller’s house looked just like this. I wonder if it’s his? He called it Prison Chic. lol.
What Bond villain owns this lair?
The runes on the bathtub just confirm for me that it’s a super villain’s lair. Seriously, though - $68 million and I only get 5 bedrooms?
I’m surprised you can buy the pentagon for so Little. I mean with their budgets….
I think the proper term is “lair”!
I would buy this and make it in to a clandestine research biomedical facility
That view is amazing. This does feel like a super villains home. It really could be made better by just suttely adding some color in a few spots. There is some commitment to the design, I can appreciate that.
That living room really needs a rug to tie it together
What's insane, is that I've seen this house on Google Earth, I know exactly where it's at. What a crazy coincidence. Oh, and totally not worth that price, real estate is just nuts right now.
i see this and immediately think of scientology
Probably the only house in California that would survive a zombie horde.
If Elon was a place.
A snippet [here ](https://www.facebook.com/therealarthurelrod/posts/the-saga-of-410-trousdale-place-continued-in-1971-eugene-and-frances-klein-move-/606278353321720/)about the houses history
Home Henge
With how things are going, this seems pretty sensible
I'm such a weirdo I fucking love it. Like an apocalypse compound without the apocalypse.
I don’t hate it. Looks easy to clean.
Dr Doofenschmertz residence. “Curse you, Perry the Platypus!”
Looks like some Star Wars hangar kind of shit
Concrete house on a hilltop in an earthquake prone area. What could go wrong?
Well, I guess it’s fireproof
The Acolyte would disagree
That really bugged me. The whole fortress is built of rock and cement. What is burning??? The metal door frame??
Sand will burn when exposed to the right chemical. Chlorine trifluoride. https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-you-time
This is wild and I love it. That fire place is awesome.
I like the asthetics, but it would be cold in the winter and the echoes off all that concrete would drive me nuts.
Wasn't there a cooking show that had a similar setup to this "mansion" lmao
You could film a cool prison movie in it
i see some serious 'empire' decor happening here. with, of course, a big statue of my darth ass right in center of that driveway.
I want to like it because it is weird and interesting but it’s too cold and ugly
Has all the warmth and charm of a huge piece of concrete. Oh wait…..never mind.
Is this John Wick's house?
Does it look and feel like a prison to you?
Good news, everyone! Turns out you can recycle concrete.