Premise: The Weeknd’s “Starboy” video featured platinum records, a neon crucifix, a panther, and exotic cars, but its moody setting was perhaps most intriguing: the Caverhill house in Beverly Hills. Designed by Zoltan Pali—architect of L.A.’s Getty Villa, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, and forthcoming Academy Museum of Motion Pictures—and completed in 2009, the house has spectacular views of the city and canyons from its glass-walled perch, but it also offers privacy from the street with a colonnade of Neutra-esque light-diffusing “fins.”
Hypothesis: “Starboy” is a video for a hit song.