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DIANELLA’S “Disco House” is to be added to Stirling’s heritage inventory.

Officially known as Marsala House, it is the youngest home on the WA heritage register and a classic example of brutalist-style architecture.

Built in 1976 for the Marsala family, the split-level home has a Las Vegas-inspired dance floor.

The house was designed by highly-regarded WA architect Iwan Iwanoff,  a Bulgarian immigrant who became renowned for working with concrete blocks and his Brutalist style.

Richard Offen, from Heritage Perth, says the building’s design is divisive.

“Marsala House has been on the state heritage register for five years now, a fact which celebrates this exceptional late 20th century house,” he says.

“Like it or hate it, this house designed by internationally renowned architect Iwan Iwanoff, is an amazing example of the brutalist style of architecture which was all the rage in the ‘60s and ‘70s.”

Mark Etherton and Christopher Beer bought Marsala house for $725,000 in 2005 and renovated extensively.

They sold it in 2012 for around $2.2 million to street artist Stormie Mills and his wife, PR expert Melissa Lekias.

by STEPHEN POLLOCK