Sitting right on the beach in Malibu, a distinctive architectural concrete home designed by Japanese architect Tadao Ando is coming on the market for $75 million.

The modern three-story house extends from the road and juts out over the ocean, with pillars supporting it from beneath.

It required 1,200 tons of concrete, 200 tons of steel reinforcement and 12 massive pylons driven more than 60 feet into the sand, according to Tyrone McKillen of Compass.

The owner, former Wall Street heavyweight Richard Sachs, said he’d long dreamed of building an Ando house and finally made moves to do it after he retired from the finance world in 2005.

"This is not just a house. This is like a Picasso Cubist painting, very important and very rare," Mr. Sachs said.

Across the three levels, every room has a view of the ocean. The lower level has three bedrooms, the middle floor has the kitchen and living room area and the upper level has the master bedroom, which has been set back to make a terrace.

While it’s primarily a residence, the home was also designed to function as a gallery-like space to house Mr. Sachs’s extensive contemporary art collection and has a warm feeling despite the concrete, said Ron Radziner of Marmol Radziner, the local architecture firm that worked with Mr. Ando on the design.

This Malibu property, which has 4,000-sq-ft of interior space and 1,500-sq-ft of outdoor decks, was completed in 2013 after about seven years of planning, permitting and construction.

Via KATHERINE CLARKE - WSJ