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Living on the edge: Casa Brutale combines brutalism with Bond villain-chic

• Gizmag

More than mere fanciful rendering, it's about to begin construction in Lebanon and is expected to be completed in 2018, with an estimated budget of US$2.5 million.

The home will face northwest into the Lebanese landscape and not the sea as shown in ...

Love or hate its striking styling, it's certainly a change from the norm and is sure ...

It's early days yet but construction has begun, with ground recently broken on the Faqra mountainside ...

The home will face northwest and be built at an altitude of 1,600 m (5,249 ft)

Casa Brutale is the work of Greece and Netherlands-based OPA (Open Platform for Architecture). The project initially started out as an exercise in conceptual architecture not unlike Modscape's Cliff House. However, the firm was contacted by Demco Properties CEO Alex Demirdjia, who wanted to commission it, so engineering firm Arup was duly enlisted to help make it happen.