Archinect - News 2024-11-21T11:12:50-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/127579373/update-frank-gehry-s-winton-guest-house-auctioned-for-750-000 Update: Frank Gehry's Winton Guest House auctioned for $750,000 Justine Testado 2015-05-19T13:14:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/lh/lhrunrdgl6273x9n.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><strong>UPDATE: </strong>The Winton Guest House sold for $750,000 today at Wright's "Design Masterworks" auction in Chicago. During the approximately 40-minute livestream that began promptly at noon Central Time, the Winton Guest House was auctioned among several furniture pieces including a <a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/36602926_charles-eames-and-eero-saarinen-chair-crow-island-school" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Charles Eames &amp; Eero Saarinen Chair</a> and <a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/36602928_eames-and-saarinen-table-organic-design-competition" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Table</a>, and a <a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/36602934_george-nelson-and-associates-rare-marshmallow-sofa" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">George Nelson Marshmallow Sofa</a>. Although Wright's website listed $850,000 as the starting bid for the Winton Guest House, the bespeckled auctioneer Richard Wright opened up its bidding lot at $500,000 and increased it by $50,000 increments. As silence filled the room, the auctioneer nearly deemed the house as <a href="http://www.sothebys.com/en/Glossary.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pass/Unsold</a> until a phone bidder named Michael purchased it for $750,000. "This is a bargain on an architectural masterpiece," Wright commented. Not too surprisingly, the pacing of bids for the Guest House was neither as competitive nor as enduring compared to the furniture pieces. However, the House's bidding lot closed on a small celebratory note as att...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/73172249/eric-owen-moss-will-be-a-guest-on-huffpost-live-today-at-3-30-pst-to-discuss-cities Eric Owen Moss will be a guest on HuffPost Live today at 3:30 PST to discuss cities Archinect 2013-05-14T17:59:00-04:00 >2017-07-07T17:21:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/tq/tq1a5m5dakn7bi0u.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Eric Moss gets to play a real-life game of Sim City. The architect's 1986 master plan for Culver City proposed 43 buildings and half are completed today. Eric joins us along with others from across the country to discuss urban revitalization.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>