The Razor Residence by Wallace E. Cunningham
Architect Wallace E. Cunningham designed the Razor Residence in La Jolla, California.
The house has been listed for sale by the agents at Hurwitz James – here.
From Hurwitz James:
Constructed from white polished concrete and floor-to-ceiling glass, this magnum opus suspends the boundaries of ordinary living and commands amazing uninterrupted views of the ocean, open sky and natural landscape. Resting high above Torrey Pines State Reserve, this 11,000-square-foot piece de resistance showcases 4 bedrooms and 6 baths, fabulous two level guest house and features private access to Black’s Beach.
Visit Wallace E. Cunningham’s website – here.
David on 02 Apr 2009 at 1:40 pm #
Wow this is just mind blowing stuff right here. The garage style remind me of an old shopping centre car park in my town. Great post!
Los CA on 02 Apr 2009 at 2:33 pm #
Just awesome! A true masterpiece in one of the finest places to live. Great design. I would love to see this place in real life, but the pictures are great.
diraekk on 02 Apr 2009 at 2:38 pm #
WOw!!
Will Matias on 02 Apr 2009 at 4:56 pm #
I don’t think it’s the same house, but this reminds me of the house used in the “Ironman” movie. I absolutely adore it!
Los CA on 02 Apr 2009 at 10:13 pm #
Nope, not the same house. This house is in La Jolla, CA (San Diego area) & the house in Ironman is in Malibu, CA (Los Angeles area). But both houses are flat out awesome!!!
Adelle on 03 Apr 2009 at 2:51 am #
OOh, total Bond evil dictators lair, I want!
Andy on 03 Apr 2009 at 9:38 am #
I would not want to clean all of those windows, and there would only be a few days in the year you could do that satisfactorily because of the fog, wind and rain that keep those windows dirty.
Very interesting home though.
Dora on 03 Apr 2009 at 11:27 am #
Wow…It’s a dream??@-)
Lance on 03 Apr 2009 at 2:10 pm #
If you can afford the house you probably have someone on staff to come clean them daily.
The master bedroom is absolutely stunning. Not that the rest of the house isn’t as well.
Nice! on 03 Apr 2009 at 11:32 pm #
Well … this certainly isn’t an architect’s home now is it; he lives in a basement suite in Watts. Wow! Does Tony Stark live here?
Nice! on 03 Apr 2009 at 11:35 pm #
Wow … just checked, only $32 mil … recession, what recession, I’ll take 2. The concrete work alone looks like it cost $32M. That garage definitely needs a Bugatti Veyron.
Rosie on 04 Apr 2009 at 11:45 pm #
I want that house. Now.
Only thing I don’t like are the hard concrete walls.
James on 05 Apr 2009 at 1:22 am #
A modern house that I would actually consider living in! Probably would add carpets and more furniture.
Cunningham’s work is always spectacular.
housefinders on 05 Apr 2009 at 9:09 pm #
We spent the whole day looking for this freaking house. It is amazing, but really: Everyone can look right into your bedroom from the hill across the canyon. Definitely needs curtains… So we figure a discount is in order. The whole place feels more like a museum than a house. Oh man. Grateful for my small bungalow (for less than 1% of the costs).
Ashley on 06 Apr 2009 at 4:50 pm #
OMG This house is amasing.It’s like neverending scenery in your bedroom. Wow. I love it!
kast on 06 Apr 2009 at 7:00 pm #
its a huge massive house ( mansion ) that beautiful and big…if we didnt mentioned it as a house ,maybe people will consider its as a furniture mall…with a garage like a car park…can park a plenty of its..terribly awesome
Mikie Dennis on 09 Apr 2009 at 3:58 pm #
32 million huh, well not this year.
Minimally Modern on 13 Apr 2009 at 6:52 am #
$32M? Wow!
I have to say, although i love modern architecture, i feel the excessive use of concrete makes it look TOO stark (not to be confused with Stark industrys, like ironman comments above). The garage is rediculous, man i would love that. I would buy cars just to fill it.
Spencer on 13 Apr 2009 at 1:48 pm #
Very well done…the fountain that extends right to the edge, with that great reflection. Just well done. That being said, it’s just too friggin big. Somebody with that kind of money probably has 5 houses like that and doesn’t spend any time there anyway, so it seems like a bit of a waste. As a hotel, then maybe.
Bob Hurwitz on 15 Apr 2009 at 8:41 pm #
Hi,I am the listing agent for the Razor house. It is spectacular. However FYI, the Ironman house does not exist. It is CGI. Another client of mine in Malibu was involved in the production. MANY people who have contacted me from the advertising for the property, including overseas parties, mistakenly believed Razor was the house in Ironman.
I’ve never seen the movie myself but a clip involving the garage really looks like a knockoff of the real one.
Best,
Bob Hurwitz
http://www.hurwitzjamesco.com
Trillion on 17 Jun 2009 at 8:06 am #
I notice there is no pictures of the master bathroom and kitchen which are usually a key selling point of any estates.Why so?
Razor on 02 Jul 2009 at 4:08 am #
My price was reduced to $28.5 Million on June 23, 2009. Make an offer now to Bob Hurwitz at the website above!!
Qiluin on 11 Jul 2009 at 11:02 pm #
I’ve seen a video on the making of the Tony Stark (Iron Man) house, watched the movie twice, and then looked at the pictures again and believe there are just too many similarities between the two for their not to have been some sort of residual inspiration from The Razor.
It’s not a house for the timid, and if I had my choice between Tony Stark’s “bungalow” and The Razor, the TS would win, but I’d take the above masterpiece on a very close second. Brilliant. I’d very much like an invite to the house warming of the new owner, please. Good luck, Mr. Hurwitz.
Archie on 15 Jul 2009 at 2:50 pm #
I love La Jolla, and to live in this house @ this address makes it “the house”! I sure hope to win mega millions and buy this myself
anna on 17 Jul 2009 at 5:26 am #
It reminds me of the house from Charlie’s Angels (1 or 2 I can’t remember haha)!
Oleg on 26 Jul 2009 at 11:04 pm #
Is it possible to see any floor plans of this monolith?
chad on 28 Sep 2009 at 4:39 pm #
DOES ANYONE CONSIDER SHADING THE GLASS IN LA JOLLA, WHERE MILLIONS MAKE YOU IGNORANT?
As art its beautiful, but its FREEKIN hot in that home with direct sun hitting the glass walls 12 hours a day. Can you say air conditioning bill?
Its time to design with Nature preservation in mind, or you won’t have such beautiful views anymore.
hZ! on 13 Nov 2009 at 2:30 am #
This is a fantasy house, designed for people who glide around barefoot wearing white clothes, where everybody stays healthy and beautiful forever, and everything stays clean and new (notice; no pics of the kitchen- someone does your cooking for you, or in this fantasy world nobody needs food). In this fantasy world there are no other humans to look in at you; nothing to mar the view as you look out over a vast land and seascape with impossible cliffs of static water, and sunsets.
In this world there are no global warming or energy conservation imperatives, no waste to dispose of, no uncomfortable temperature fluctuations, no need even to bathe, much less evacuate. Just restful plays of light, stairways and layered stages to transcendence in which Great Sculpture could be placed to guide the way, spiritual circular spaces, reveries in which the mind falls into reflections on water and everything shimmers. You are inside the chambers of a nautilus…And you never have trouble or look like a gawky idiot, pulling your elegant, Z-shaped chair forward to sit at the table, because chairs and tables are aesthetic things, not things to be used, in the fantasy house.
The basement is in this context the proper place for something so base in several respects, as an expensive fantasy automobile or twenty.
I would love to be alone here for a few days in white clothes just to dream and explore…
Maybe the house could be donated to an organisation that helps exhausted poor people find peace and space for a little while, in the illusion of inexhaustible abundance.
al on 06 Jan 2010 at 6:00 pm #
Well a few of your are just brilliant. To me the house looks setup for sale and photos. Just like any other house, who said you cant bring in your own furniture or art? I am sure if you had 30m to spend on a house, you are going to bring in your taste. No Kitchen? Geez… logic like this is why you will never own a home like this. Curtains or blinds… install them. Cmon people.
The house was just built and has been setup to sell and create photo ops morons.
lynn on 11 Apr 2010 at 8:20 pm #
some aspects of this remind me of the tugendhat house by mies van der rhoe. amazing house!
Amanda on 16 May 2010 at 2:15 pm #
So…was this house in the movie Gamer? It looks just like the house of the evil guy.
atlas on 06 Aug 2010 at 8:20 pm #
just out of curiosity what happens when you want sleep in and all that light is comming into your bedroom?
DRAMAFAN on 21 Sep 2010 at 7:09 am #
Oh, come on. How many years will it take until this ‘masterpiece’ sinks way in the Pacific? Huh?
Look at it sitting off that cliff…Um, no. I would rather spend my $25.000.000 on something safer!
Diana on 26 Sep 2010 at 3:12 am #
I love it. It is truly breathtaking. My friends hired Wallace E. Cunningham, and he has been working on their house in Mexico for more than 6 years. It is almost as beautiful. It also has 4 bedrooms and 6 baths, as well as a walk-in closet for each of their 3 children. Most of the rooms have walls of glass. It will be finished quite soon.
Maira Evans on 07 Oct 2010 at 1:11 am #
Stunning. Definitely needs roller shades.
race on 24 Oct 2010 at 8:26 am #
it does look like the iron man house especially the garage!!! awesome house one day i wish to own it.
Ted on 31 Oct 2010 at 1:15 pm #
Hats off to Mr. Cunningham for creating a masterpiece- it is an inspiration. And many thanks to Bob Hurwitz for making these photos available. -Ted
Ian on 01 Nov 2010 at 3:39 pm #
its unbelievable how some people can still say something ugly about this beautiful work of art. people, learn to appreciate!
Vince on 09 Dec 2010 at 6:34 pm #
This house is unbelievable!!! Was this house featured in the first Ironman movie?
Monako on 10 Dec 2010 at 5:53 pm #
@Vince-No it wasn’t.
Jackie on 28 Dec 2010 at 11:39 am #
Ironman house is in Beverly Hill where is the top of the hill.
All Wally Cunningham’s works are excellent!
JJ on 29 Dec 2010 at 6:16 pm #
Awesome piece of architecture here Mr.Cunningham. I’ve been looking for the ideal home for the family cause i’m into modern/contemporary designs, furniture’s etc. If this house stays available i will definitely be calling in next year between Oct and Dec to buy this house, but for now it’s work and no play for me. It’s incredible.
gypsy on 10 Jan 2011 at 9:35 am #
It’s ice but wheres the pics of the kitchen?!?! ;P
TAR on 10 Jan 2011 at 11:57 am #
Absolutely beautiful but I would hate to be the one has to clean it, lol
Takia on 10 Jan 2011 at 11:57 am #
Beautiful. I would definitely enjoy waking up in a house like that everyday day.
James Majestic on 10 Jan 2011 at 11:58 am #
That is a amazing house