The Robert Bridges House was a single-family house designed, built, and occupied by Los Angeles architect Robert Bridges. The home stood on tall concrete pillars above Sunset Boulevard in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. It was destroyed in the Palisades Fire in January 2025.
[1][2] The Brutalist -style house, located at 820 Chautaqua Boulevard, was visible to drivers on Sunset Boulevard and. The Bridges House, designed and built by the architect Robert Bridges, was a famed part of the scenery on the iconic Sunset Boulevard route. This beloved Sunset Boulevard House, also known as the Bridges House, was also one of the casualties of the wildfires, the Los Angeles Conservancy confirmed on Facebook.
'Bridges House' by Robert Bridges in Los Angeles, CA - Virtual ...
The Robert Bridges House, which was a quintessential example of brutalist residential architecture, was destroyed by the Palisades fire in LA. Photo: Brian van der Brug/Getty Images. The house appears to float on the horizon, but is anchored by 68 driven steel pilings, each 13-inches in diameter.
Barring force majeure, it's not going anywhere. Robert Bridges at his home in Los Angeles. Built on concrete columns and cantilevered over the hillside, Bridges' brutalist home has become a Sunset Boulevard landmark.
'Bridges House' by Robert Bridges in Los Angeles, CA - Virtual ...
Bridges House: Anyone who has driven down Sunset Boulevard toward the coast will remember the Brutalist Bridges House, by architect Robert Bridges. After working on homes including his own. Sunset Boulevard House in Los Angeles, California, was built by Robert Bridges.
The two-story, brutalist, timber. Bridges called it "a man's type of house," though her husband did use wood for the floors and walls to add warmth. The effect is like being inside a treehouse designed by Robert Moses.
Bridges and blocks - Brutalism in the North East in pictures ...
Steven Kurutz profiles a home familiar to many Los Angelenos, but whose architect since turned academic, Robert Bridges, perhaps is not. Located just before the Pacific Palisades off Sunset Boulevard, it is a "concrete-pillared house" many have driven by. The Bridges House (1989), designed by architect Robert Bridges, destroyed by the Palisades fire, January 8, 2025, in Pacific Palisades (California).
I've always loved this house in the Palisades. It kinda reminded me of a location from a Michael Mann movie. This modernist / brutalist style home, located above Sunset Blvd, was built on cement pillars & stilts by architect Robert Bridges.
Bridges spent years building this masterpiece using the same technology you would use for a parking.