Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger Are Building a Brand New House in Place of a Historic Midcentury Modern Pad

Look away or face heartbreak, followers of midcentury fashionable structure. Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger have been at work overseeing the development of a model new 15,000-square-foot residence within the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles since late final yr. In November, the Every day Mail reported that the couple had been constructing the mansion on an empty lot, conveniently positioned proper throughout the road from the property of Schwarzenegger’s mom, Maria Shriver. Nonetheless, a current Robb Report article reveals that when the Guardians of the Galaxy star and the self-help creator purchased the property, it featured a historic residence, which they’d razed.

The abode in query was referred to as Zimmerman Home, a 1950 construct by acclaimed modernist architect Craig Ellwood, who participated within the well-known Case Examine Homes program. Spanning 2,770 sq. ft, the single-story dwelling had 5 bedrooms and three loos. Unique landscaping by designer Garrett Eckbo was additionally reportedly torn up.

Photographs of the previous dwelling on US Modernist present a lounge with a brick hearth, sliding glass doorways that open to the yard, and an eat-in kitchen with a light-weight fixture formed like a flying saucer.

Instead, Pratt and Schwarzenegger commissioned architect Ken Ungar to design a sprawling two-story residence, with every degree measuring in at roughly 5,000 sq. ft. The couple, who paid $12.5 million for the practically one-acre property in an off-market January 2023 deal, additionally obtained permits for a three-car storage and a poolside ADU. The vendor was the property of Hilda Rolfe, the late widow of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. co-creator Sam Rolfe.

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Pratt and Schwarzenegger, who share two youngsters, are nonetheless making an attempt to promote a virtually 13,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style Pacific Palisades residence that they listed final summer season for $32 million.