33604 Pacific Coast Hwy, Malibu, CA 90265

An architectural treasure and an icon of Malibu design with 122 feet of beachfront, Sandcastle was the hand-built home of visionary architect (and surfer) Harry Gesner. Offered for sale for the first time, this tranquil Western Malibu oceanfront property is, according to Gesner, "a dream place, built with love." When the young architect set out to build his family home, he had big ideas, little money, and an abiding passion for the natural beauty of the secluded cove with a nearby surf break and an empty plot right next door to his most famous building, Wave House. With a roofline inspired by a sandcastle, Gesner was determined to build a home that would fulfill what turned out to be a lifelong philosophy: "You have to have a view. You want perspective to your life." The home's texture was determined in part by the materials he salvaged as an early evangelist of sustainable construction: telephone poles, reclaimed bricks, wall panels made from aqueduct pipes, birdseye maple from a high school gym, old-growth redwood harvested in the 1800s, and windows and doors saved from one of Hollywood's silent film theaters. As Gesner said about Sandcastle in Houses of the Sundown Sea: The Architectural Vision of Harry Gesner, the book about his life and work, "The spirit in the design and materials are what you immediately feel in this house. All people who enter and spend a brief period or long time here immediately feel at home and relaxed.