Investor shores up Tadao Ando landmark along Pacific Coast

Newport Beach, Calif.-based Belwood Investments is set to close on an oceanfront Malibu property, near Los Angeles, designed by legendary Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Of 24844 Malibu Road, original owner Richard Sachs, an art collector and financier, said: “This is like a Picasso, a cubist painting, very important and very rare.” With four bedrooms and five baths, the architectural cast-in-place…

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Investor budgets $5M to restore architect Ando’s concrete masterwork

Sources: Belwood Investments, Newport Beach, Calif.; CP staff An investor is set to acquire 24844 Malibu Road, a southern California oceanfront residence designed by legendary architect Tadao Ando. Substantially completed in 2013 but compromised by subsequent work, the home embodies 600-plus yards of concrete on a 4,000 sq.-ft. floorplate. Belwood Investments secured a contract for the Malibu property in the…

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