WESTPORT, Conn. — At the end of a road lined with freshly minted, oversize colonial-style homes surrounded by carefully tended lawns is a jarring sight: an unusual 1970s house with shredded strips of its tar roof and quartz-covered walls torn away and spread about the yard....In this stylish town where residents are waging what seems to be an all-out campaign to bolster its colonial image, teardowns are hardly an unusual sight. But many people are horrified that a Modernist home designed by a renowned architect is about to be razed. NYT
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but fully wired and stocked with gewgaws.
So they want a log cabin with no electricity and an outhouse?
What they will probably build is this:
Sickening.
Now Now LB. Did you know Michael Bolton lives in Westport? As does Martha Stewart?
the owner's statement evokes some violent feelings in me.
it is like demoing the fallingwater house because the new owners didn't like the cantalivers.
that house should be declared a national treasure. shame.
there should be a federal fund available to save structures like this.
it's comforting that stern has supported the protection of the house, but his name seems to keep popping up whenever a rudolph project is about to be destroyed. because he's dean at yale, the reporters come to him...
so he's getting some juicy quotes, but is he able to do anything? probably as helpless as the rest of us.
there's some irony, though, in idea of stern becoming a primary champion of preserving modernism.
by the way, when i read the headline i got my hackles up ready to hate on some godawful christmas yard decorations that needed tearing down.
perfect, Steven. 'tis the season.
ya, maybe stern because of the recent reno of Rudolph's Art/Arch bldg at Yale...
it may still be nostalgia on his part, although more authentic in this case.
is this pattern of modernism vanishing to contemporary money holders a possible suggestion to current architects that ephemeral (perhaps easily recycled or transplanted) structures could have a place in current or future design trends?
Why doesn't somebody just buy the building and have it moved to another local site, obviously it's not going to be saved where it is. I'm sure if someone was willing to take it off their hands they would be more than happy to let you. It will save them $$$. If I had enough Money I would Buy the house and reassemble it on another similar site, unfortunately I couldn't even afford the transportation costs...
Better yet, how sweet would it be to buy up a farm somewhere and start a town, and the entire town will be made up of modern homes that would have been torn down, but were saved by some citizens and brought to the town. It would be like, a museum of modern architecture. Amazingness.
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