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Munger Hall was a planned residence hall at the University of California, Santa Barbara designed by billionaire businessman Charlie Munger. The building's design meant that most rooms would not receive natural light, eliciting a negative reaction from students, architects, and community members.
The couple also donated to the Polytechnic School in Pasadena and the Los Angeles YMCA. [42] On December 28, 2011, Munger donated 10 shares of Berkshire Hathaway Class A stock (then valued at approximately $1.2 million total) to the University of Michigan. [43] Munger and his late wife Nancy B. Munger were major benefactors of Stanford ...
Charlie Munger, who passed away this week at age 99, could have afforded a mega-mansion—or several of them. Instead, the billionaire investor stayed put in the same relatively modest home in Los ...
Critics have blasted Munger's plans as resembling a prison more than a dorm, as over 90% of the building's 4,500 students would have windowless rooms.
The Chemosphere is a modernist house in Los Angeles, California, designed by John Lautner in 1960. The building, which the Encyclopædia Britannica once called "the most modern home built in the world", [1] is admired both for the ingenuity of its solution to the problem of the site and for its unique octagonal design.
Image credits: the_60s_interior #2 Karl Kamrath House In The 1951 That Was Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright
As described by Michael Broggie in the 2005 book “Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger,” Munger’s family fared comparatively well during the Great Depression ...
The house is situated in East Gate Bel Air on Copa De Oro Road ('cup of gold' in Spanish), which was "coined to reflect the millionaire status of its inhabitants". [1] Copa De Oro Road was named in 2015 as one of the "15 Priciest Streets in America", with a median home value estimated at US$10.264 million.