Bold by Design at Cape Schanck
A visionary statement by architectural firm Denton Corker Marshall, the award-winning Emery Residence is the ultimate juxtaposition of contemporary design surrounded by a raw rural landscape.
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Just listed with Kay & Burton Flinders agents Sasha Romensky and Tom Barr Smith, the unique coastal retreat at the southernmost tip of the Mornington Peninsula has a price guide of between $5.5 million and $6 million.
Winner of the prestigious Robin Boyd Award in 2000, this bold architectural landmark was created for prominent graphic designer Garry Emery, founder of Melbourne-based EmeryStudio, which shut in 2016.
Unsurprisingly, the Peninsula weekender of a prominent creative mind cuts a striking asymmetrical figure within its soft bush setting inside the gated National Estate surrounded by the Cape Schanck Golf Course.
Crafted from concrete, glass, and stainless steel, the designer home starkly contrasts its natural environment and the rolling fairways of the golfing green.
Known for their highly contemporary creations, Denton Corker Marshall have been behind an eclectic collection of commercial projects including the Stonehenge Exhibition and Visitor Centre in the UK, the Australian Pavilion in Venice as well as the Anzac Hall and Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
The four-bedroom two-storey house is essentially two rectangular boxes, one perched atop the other, with the upper level rising above the tree tops.
As essentially one free-flowing space, the upper floor hosts the combined living and dining room with a suspended steel hearth wood-burning fireplace.
At its heart, a sleek modern kitchen features a long freestanding island bench, stainless steel surfaces and hidden appliances behind contrasting warm timber cabinetry to promote a sense of minimalism.
The main bedroom on the same level has an ensuite, a walk-in wardrobe plus an elevated centre stage position overlooking the land and out to the ocean.
Downstairs, via a glass-encased, polished concrete staircase, two more bedrooms feature strategically placed angled windows capturing water views.
These rooms with built-ins share a full bathroom and laundry while a separate self-contained studio space with a bathroom and kitchenette, built-in cabinetry, workstations, and a communal meeting area, making it an inspired home office or a guest suite.
Enveloped by more than 4000sq m of lush landscape, the property’s low maintenance grounds feature established native trees and low lying shrubs allowing for the panoramic ocean and gold course views.
Fingal and Gunnamatta beaches are close by, and the 100km Mornington Peninsula Walk or the shorter Two Bays Walking Track or Coastal Walk, offer locals an alternative way to witness the wild ocean coastline and Cape Schanck Lighthouse.
The house is about 72km from Melbourne’s CBD and about 15kms from the townships of St Andrews Beach and Flinders.
Emery Residence at Cape Schanck is listed with a price guide of $5.5 million to $6 million through Kay & Burton Flinders agents Sasha Romensky and Tom Barr Smith.
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A five-bedroom Palo Alto home designed by Steven Ehrlich is listed for $44 million, making it the city’s most expensive listing. Built around a dramatic concrete spine, the home features four courtyards and a pool.
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For years, tech entrepreneur Asher Waldfogel and his wife, Helyn MacLean, dreamed of building a modern house in Palo Alto, Calif.
The couple, however, worried about clashing with the Mediterranean-style architecture typically associated with their neighborhood of Old Palo Alto.
So they tapped architect Steven Ehrlich to create a design that paid homage to its surroundings with stucco, mahogany and titanium zinc cladding. They spent $20 million over several years building the house, completed in 2005.
Now looking to be closer to their adult daughter on the East Coast, they are putting the five-bedroom home on the market for $44 million—the most expensive listing in Palo Alto.
Waldfogel is an angel investor who co-founded Redback Networks, a telecommunications-equipment company. MacLean previously had a career in fundraising.
The couple purchased the roughly 0.4-acre site for $7.1 million in 2000 and demolished a circa-1930s Spanish Colonial home. The house they built pinwheels around a central staircase. It has 7,900 square feet of livable space, with four distinct courtyards and a pool.
A key feature of the home is a cast-in-place concrete wall, or spine, that is two stories high and about 80 feet long. “There’s a little bit of controlled chaos in what comes out of the form,” unlike a perfectly uniform surface, Waldfogel said. “If you want that, you do it in plastic.”
Waldfogel said he and his wife are thinking about the next phase of life now that their daughter is grown, although they have not decided where they will move. They also have a home in Sun Valley, Idaho.
“Right now we’re just trying to emotionally let go and decide what to do next,” he said.
Palo Alto, an epicenter of venture capital and tech startups in Silicon Valley, is home to some of the country’s biggest tech titans. Sales volume and prices are rising, with a median sale price of $3.5 million for the three months ending in August, up 5.8% year-over-year, according to real-estate brokerage Redfin.
Arthur Sharif of Sotheby’s International Realty—San Francisco Brokerage has the listing.
The grand harbourside residence combines sweeping Sydney Heads views, resort-style entertaining and refined designer finishes with a reported $36 million price guide.
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