You certainly don't see something like this everyday. There’s a lot to like but.....the spiral scares me.

I was right! Before I read the description I said it was built as a party house. And that's exactly what they did. I sure couldn't live there full time though. Stormy night, all alone, all those windows...hee.

Not sure why they scrimped on the bathrooms though.

I agree the bathrooms are a little small and it seems to me like the kitchen and bathrooms have been renovated unsympathetically.

Better pics on the listing

https://louzucaro.bairdwarner.com/details.php?mls=103&mlsid=11116425#rslt

Unfortunately location (sorta), Taxes, pool, round master bedroom, unalterable character are all relative negatives. The location is okay but its not exactly as easy a commute into Chicago as some areas.

Yes, what are ya gonna do with this! Not exactly something you can easily change up!

Wow that is some 70s ultra cool right there!

The decking & views are pretty neat - it's a very pretty spot. Wonder what the the bathrooms looked like originally?

“Beam me up, Scotty.”

I like it, but cannot believe that fireplace could meet code. It looks like the bottom of the boards above it are charred. Yikes!

The in kitchen eating area looks cool but IMPOSSIBLE to get seated in and what a waste of space LITERALLY inches from a table and chairs!! They made the public spaces party city and the one bedroom--the rest is pretty builder grade basic. I don't need a "spa" experience, when using the bathroom, so I see it as money well spent for the demands of the spaces. We looked at a MUCH more modest cement home once up a time and the truths of adding on updating CEMENT kept us from going for it.

Fun to look at.

"kitchen and bathrooms have been renovated unsympathetically." Well said.

I like it. The bathrooms don't bother me a bit and look like they may be original to the house. Much prefer that to ostentatious ones these days. I think children would have great fun growing up in a place like that and the grounds/outdoor space are delightful. I would, however, remove the kitchen eat-in table and seating as well as those glass and wood dividers. If I could move the entire property here, I would buy it.

ETA: I am also picky about street names (some, no matter how nice the home, would be non-starters for me) and the one here is nice as is the town name. Win-win.

Cool! Not practical, but decidedly cool.

I was expecting a Brutalist interior to go with that exterior.

I generally thought it was great, though what they did to the kitchen showed a complete lack of awareness or appreciation for the style of the house. Architecturally, I thought the repetition of the circle/spiral motif was done pretty effectively (though I agree that it creates all kinds of problems for furnishing the space).

I like it a lot, but I could not live with those fluorescent lights. I don't like the dropped ceiling in one of the rooms either. Of course the house would have to be in Malibu or Pacific Palisades for me to want to live in it.

Re the fireplace, for the flue to draw properly, the area of the flue should be 1/12 the size of the firebox opening. It would be hard to measure because there is no firebox, but lets call the diameter about 3 feet around and 24" high from hearth to chimney. The perimeter of that circle would be 114" minus maybe say 14" at the back, so call it 100" of opening X 24" high so the area would be 2400 inches square or 16+ feet square. So the flue would have to be 200 inches square or about 10 x 20 inches, which is a big flue. It Might be that big, but I would be surprised. I lived in a house that was originally heated by fireplaces and the flues are Very big by modern standards and what happens is that you light a little fire in it--you aren't heating a 26 foot long room-- the chimney draws because it's big, but it's so big compared to the relative size of the fire that you get condensation in the chimney down the sides which is acidic and also a lot of soot forming. This chimney probably does not work. It either smokes with a smallish fire or the fire is big enough that it scorches the cladding. You could probably burn this house down with the chimney without trying very hard.

I thought the fireplace looked very cool - tho it seems hazardous to be sure.

Enjoyed looking at this unique house. Very cool for the right buyer.

I, too, was looking at the very singed cladding around the fireplace. Thanks for that great explanation about flue size, pal.

Omg, one of the groups I left on FB before I decided to dump social media altogether was a Brutalism group, or they may have closed the group, I don't remember, because with thousands of members there are only so many buildings in the world you can post a picture of. Mostly populated by people who would post "Not Brutalist" as a response to practically everything posted.