The Good & Horrible Architecture Thread

[Dropbear]

One for the Stranger Things fans here:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/149-Coastline-Rd-Fayetteville-GA-30214/52272588_zpid/

 

[Dropbear]

FLW up for sale:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1425-Valley-View-Dr-Mount-Pleasant-WI-53405/52242737_zpid/

 

[Dropbear]

Yankee Candle founder’s home for sale:

113 Juggler Meadow, Leverett, MA, Leverett, MA, for Sale | Douglas Elliman

View details for 113 Juggler Meadow, Leverett, MA Leverett, MA 01054 including photos, home size, videos, amenities, and estimated monthly costs.

www.elliman.com

 

[Dropbear]

https://www.redfin.com/CA/Sacramento/2510-Coleman-Way-95818/home/19424475

 

[ter1413]

Mark Wahlberg takes $87.5M mansion off market as interest rates soar

The “Father Stu” actor listed this Beverly Hills behemoth for a pretty penny, but as mortgage rates soar, he’s decided to pull back and hang onto the property.

nypost.com

While it may have a few nice touches(who doesn't want a pool and full basketball court on their property), that is one ugly house. And to think, they designed it!

 

[Dropbear]

Putting the master in master bedroom. And of course it’s in the DFW area:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/324-Cripple-Creek-Dr-Celina-TX-75009/122293023_zpid/

 

[Grand Potentate]

Putting the master in master bedroom. And of course it’s in the DFW area:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/324-Cripple-Creek-Dr-Celina-TX-75009/122293023_zpid/

What the fuck that bathroom???

 

[Dropbear]

What the fuck that bathroom???

They edited the listing and removed the bedroom pics with all the sex stuff!!

 

[ter1413]

Putting the master in master bedroom. And of course it’s in the DFW area:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/324-Cripple-Creek-Dr-Celina-TX-75009/122293023_zpid/

That's an ugly interior!

Agent should get a bonus with a home staged like that.

 

[Dropbear]

That's an ugly interior!

Agent should get a bonus with a home staged like that.

They edited the listing - pics of the bedroom showed an absolute ton of sex toys and furniture, etc.

 

[güero]

Someone had a house designed by Ray Kappe shortly before he died and it turned out very nice:

 

[ter1413]

 

[Dropbear]

When Sex & Kitsch Collide: A Brief Compendium of Weird Retro Tubs

It’s time to take a breather circa 1975, courtesy of the best bygone, groovy bathrooms – which would be nothing without their larger-than-life tubs. These babies were the heart of the retro restroom. We’re talking tubs with jets, and psychedelic tiles; tubs with matching shag rugs, and enough...

www.messynessychic.com

 

[Dropbear]

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/7436-Mulholland-Dr-Los-Angeles-CA-90046/20802590_zpid/

 

[Dropbear]

Nice FLW for sale:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/21200-Center-Ave-Los-Banos-CA-93635/2130481128_zpid/

 

[Dropbear]

Hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright's Designs Were Never Built. Here's What They Might Have Looked Like

So far, David Romero has digitally reconstructed more than 20 of the famous architect's unrealized projects

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[Dropbear]

Check out this Detached house for sale on Rightmove

Detached house for sale in Old Defensible Barracks, Pembroke Dock, Dyfed, SA72 for £500,000. Marketed by Strutt and Parker, Ludlow

www.rightmove.co.uk

 

[Dropbear]

2501 Clifton Ave, Saint Louis, MO 63139 | MLS #22071261 | Zillow

For sale This 7866 square foot single family home has 6 bedrooms and 8.0 bathrooms. It is located at 2501 Clifton Ave Saint Louis, Missouri.

www.zillow.com

 

[ter1413]

Exclusive | A trailer in a Hamptons billionaires’ bunker sells for a record $3.75M

Montauk Shores is known for its high-priced mobile homes — and a new sale just broke another record for the area.

nypost.com

 

[güero]

Exclusive | A trailer in a Hamptons billionaires’ bunker sells for a record $3.75M

Montauk Shores is known for its high-priced mobile homes — and a new sale just broke another record for the area.

nypost.com

Reminded me of this story:

Drawing 120G line in Hamptons sand

He was in it to win it. A Manhattan millionaire shelled out $120,000 for a one-foot sliver of Hamptons property as a personal vendetta to make sure a fellow financier stayed off his beach, sources …

nypost.com

I’m too dumb to calculate the price per sqft though. I did a project with the dude from Centerbridge some time ago, he seemed quite nice?

 

[Dropbear]

When Florida drug dealers play Candy Crush:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2601-NE-36th-St-Lighthouse-Pt-FL-33064/42932626_zpid/

 

[Dropbear]

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2055-S-Joshua-Tree-Pl-Palm-Springs-CA-92264/18030011_zpid/

 

[Grand Potentate]

‘A gas-guzzling villain’s lair’: welcome to LA’s grotesque new high-rise

Inspired by Yeats and Wagner, the (W)rapper tower was meant to reawaken the city skyline. But is this monstrous erection just a monument to its designer’s ego?

www.theguardian.com

who the fuck would want one of those units where the concrete blocks your windows???

 

[Dropbear]

I love this, but I’d feel guilty for letting anything from the 21st century into the house:

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1935-Stonehouse-Rd-Sierra-Madre-CA-91024/92579922_zpid/

 

[Dropbear]

 

[Grand Potentate]

He was so cool

 

[kneeshuh]

Architecture - Ben Pentreath Ltd

We are renowned as one of the foremost designers of new traditional buildings and country houses working in the UK. Whether you want a large or small house, in a classical or vernacular language, we are thrilled to work with interesting sites and with clients who want to create buildings which...

www.benpentreath.com

The work of the architect who won this year's Driehaus Prize, basically the traditionalist's version of the Pritzker.

 

[Dropbear]

The Brady Bunch home is for sale!!!

11222 Dilling St, North Hollywood, CA 91602 | Zillow

11222 Dilling St, North Hollywood CA, is a Single Family home that contains 2477 sq ft and was built in 1959.It contains 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.This home last sold for $3,200,000 in September 2023. The Zestimate for this Single Family is $3,844,000, which has increased by $90,187 in the...

www.zillow.com

 

[Dropbear]

Time for a lowball bid? The DW Dungeon of Disease Party House?

Imaginative Retreat Project at Brough Lodge, Fetlar | Estate Agency Shetland

Exciting opportunity for a philanthropic individual or organisation to secure the future of Brough Lodge, an historic Grade ‘A’ Listed property set in around 40 acres in an idyllic coastal position on the island of Fetlar, which lies off the east coast of Mainland Shetland.

www.estateagencyshetland.co.uk

 

[Fwiffo]

I keep walking by the construction site for this on my way to the driving range. Condos and offices made with wood.

 

[güero]

https://www.coldwellbanker.com/ct/new-canaan/432-frogtown-rd/lid-P00800000GGJIBJYvBSVGQqfaBTd24CPrLYe5Hcp

 

[Fwiffo]

Inside a 455-square-foot Yorkville apartment brimming with art deco antiques

Not a single piece of furniture in art dealer Matthew Stokes’s studio was made after 1940

torontolife.com

For $1000 CAD a month to live in a posh neighbourhood with all the retirees it sounds nice. How he manages to do anything with all that furniture crammed in the space is another story.

The kitchen looks horrible. I reckon that door leads to the bathroom which must be in an even worse state.

 

[Dropbear]

https://www.sfgate.com/realestate/article/las-vegas-underground-bunker-house-18623632.php

 

[Dropbear]

Frank Lloyd Wright - Massaro House
Petre Island - New York

"Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright"

Massaro House is a residence on privately owned Petre Island in Lake Mahopac, New York, roughly 50 miles north of New York city. Its construction was inspired by designs of a never-built project conceived by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

In 1949, architect Frank Lloyd Wright received a commission from A. Chahroudi to build a house on a 10-acre (40,000 m2) island the engineer owned in Lake Mahopac, Petre.

Wright worked on designing a one-story, 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) house for three months, but the project was cancelled when Chahroudi realized he would not be able to afford either the $50,000 budget that Wright envisioned for the project or a second more modest version he requested.

In 1996, Petre Island was purchased for US$700,000 by Joseph Massaro, a sheet metal contractor. Though he had seen the original Chahroudi commission drawings for the main home years earlier, he initially intended merely to restore the island's Wright-designed guest cottage.

Those drawings– a floor plan with ideas for built-in and stand-alone furniture, a building section, and three elevations–were included in his acquisition of the island. He hired Thomas A. Heinz, an architect and Wright historian, to complete the only partially realized design.

Heinz employed Archicad Building Information Modeling (BIM) software to model aspects of Wright's design not self-evident in the original renderings.

Throughout the construction, Massaro was in conflict with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which had been established by the architect in 1940 to conserve his intellectual property.

Instead, Massaro hired Heinz and the foundation filed a lawsuit, which ended in a settlement that limited Massaro to referring to the structure as merely being "inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright".

 

[Dropbear]

Bob Hope’s house. Palm Spring, 1979

 

[Fwiffo]

The final floor plans came out for my dream home...

 

[Fwiffo]

Behold the sunken living room.

“'Sometimes homeowners resist the idea of a railing because they’re worried about aesthetics,' adds Hill. 'But especially near a kitchen, I often insist on it. You don’t want someone tipsy tumbling into the couch. That’s not a good scene.'"

Must have been a lot of broken or twisted ankles back in the 1960s...