I will make it my job to find that architect and make him feel how real, biting, and festering his guilt is. Slowly, turn the guilt into hate and sit back and watch as he exuberantly spreads his abscess. A hord is born.
The house looks functional, the architect "maxed out" the property providing the owner with the most built area for the site, and also "created" a necessary change in the rhythm of what was a very boring streetscape. The AIA has been notified and receipt acknowledged with distinction.
my thoughts as well Chili -- presuming the photo wasn't scaled out of proportion, the owners must be motorcyclists. no way that car on the street could fit.
I just checked the sat photo of this house (it's in Pittsburg). The surveyor and foundation contractor have the foundation rotated counterclockwise planview. I'd sue those incomps.
That is Eisenman's football trophy bedroom (both bottom pictures are the same room for dialectic puposes). I haven't seen those photos published in years.
kyll's 3rd picture is rather nice, fanciest storage unit I've ever seen! the tinted bay windows give it that guard tower-esque feeling i find so hard to capture
you know tree, my wife and i went to look at some apartment complex's right off the plane that reminded me of some of this, but while the amenities were attractive we decided against the lithium like environs for something with a little more walkability and great spaces to boot.
My girlfriend was watching Extreme Makeover - Home Edition last night and thought the house was "pretty." I had to slap some sense into her. Anyone else see this?
man... cad program at officemax? this whole effort is an after-effect of the home channel "trading spaces", and "fixafuckedup house" show (or whatever its called)
where people are beginning to think that it just takes some new sheetrock, studs, a kooky design with 38 inventive uses for an old trasure chest, and a paintroller to "design" - thus making them "designers" or worse yet "architects"
like being proud of those homes i posted above- i'm sure theres alot of people who would love to live in them- which is fine. not knowing you live in crap is just as blissful as the next thing....
A local developer built this piece of work for himself on a small island in a critical habitat area without obtaining any of the required permits or variances. He claims (keep in mind his line of work) he didn't know he needed permits. If he had gone through the proper channels he would have only been able to build something a fraction of the size.
I did a job in Long Island a few years back, we had to go to a zoning hearing for it. Another applicant at the hearing was a builder who had managed to sneak through a permit for a house that had no access: it was a land-locked site behind another house, and the permit reviewer missed that fact because the site plan showed a driveway. Then when the house was done he told the county that since they had issued him a building permit, they were now required to build him a road/utility easement across the neighbor's property so that the new house could have a street address and county services.
It had been tied up in zoning for a long time and was still not close to resolution when the meeting I was at ended. But the balls of this guy, to build a house first, knowing that it was premised on a bogus permit, then demand taxpayer money to make his investment viable. People are jerks sometimes.
bryan4arch your developer guy should have to demolish that hosue himself plus pay for environmental remediation. Jeez.
Not just taxpayer money, but he's fucking over the neighbor, as well! That sucks. I hate developer/builders sometimes. Actually, most times. Almost all times. Argh.
I recently lost an attempt to have a non-permitted structure allowed through a minor variance of the bylaws. It was built a few years ago (I had nothing to do with it). The offensive portion had to be removed.
On the plus side, it resulted in a nice new project for me (same client).
Many authorities are now refusing to approve these things after being built, more on principal (and as punishment), it seems.
the dimpled rind of remorselessness
show us your photos of architecture capable of lowering property values in the neighborhood. what is bad?
Oh my God, I think I'm gonna be sick now.
I will make it my job to find that architect and make him feel how real, biting, and festering his guilt is. Slowly, turn the guilt into hate and sit back and watch as he exuberantly spreads his abscess. A hord is born.
I sincerely doubt that an architect was involved in that project - I see "builder" written all over it.
ironically, won't that actually RAISE property values in that neighborhood?
The house looks functional, the architect "maxed out" the property providing the owner with the most built area for the site, and also "created" a necessary change in the rhythm of what was a very boring streetscape. The AIA has been notified and receipt acknowledged with distinction.
It it just me, or do those garage doors look about three feet wide??
I just received word that the garage doors are special Prius dimensions anticipating the new wave of owners in the neighborhood.
my thoughts as well Chili -- presuming the photo wasn't scaled out of proportion, the owners must be motorcyclists. no way that car on the street could fit.
Is it odd that the front door appears to be the same height as the double-hung window on the house to the right, too?
"Firmitas, utilitas, venustas"
Wow, the proportions are just perfect.
LB I thnk you give to many arch's the benefit of the doubt.
I just checked the sat photo of this house (it's in Pittsburg). The surveyor and foundation contractor have the foundation rotated counterclockwise planview. I'd sue those incomps.
They should rotate it 90 degrees clockwise along the X axis.
the image is stretched peeps. chill out. heres some more painful stuff..
back
inside. note the wonderful wall trim. love it.
my favorite. i mean- wow.
[img]http://photos.njmls.com/2633832.1.jpgimg]
inside. bedposts of heaven...
That is Eisenman's football trophy bedroom (both bottom pictures are the same room for dialectic puposes). I haven't seen those photos published in years.
Actually, that's Philip Johnson's bedroom.
Eisenman's football trophy room and P.J.'s bedroom are one and the same? Wow!
cf
Good Eisenmalign
Eisenglass is steel, man!
kyll's 3rd picture is rather nice, fanciest storage unit I've ever seen! the tinted bay windows give it that guard tower-esque feeling i find so hard to capture
I will have nightmares tonight.
not so pricky about good american design. eh. cheers
more eye candy...
http://www.texastwisted.com/attr/munstermansion/
Your altered states of being don't cut the Munstered.
i do love the title of this thread...
beta -welcome back! did you see any specimens worthy of this thread in Mpls?
you know tree, my wife and i went to look at some apartment complex's right off the plane that reminded me of some of this, but while the amenities were attractive we decided against the lithium like environs for something with a little more walkability and great spaces to boot.
My girlfriend was watching Extreme Makeover - Home Edition last night and thought the house was "pretty." I had to slap some sense into her. Anyone else see this?
chili- did you slap her with phaidon's 10x10 again?? she was in a coma last time dude - sheesh...
Nope, I went all out this time...
this is the shit that 'design review boards' love, btw
this is the shit that 'design review boards' love, btw
ouch, that mother has sharp edges and weighs a ton
btw, there is no actual driveway
this smacks of that cad program that you can buy at officemax for $12.99...they sell it next to the staplers, i think
man... cad program at officemax? this whole effort is an after-effect of the home channel "trading spaces", and "fixafuckedup house" show (or whatever its called)
where people are beginning to think that it just takes some new sheetrock, studs, a kooky design with 38 inventive uses for an old trasure chest, and a paintroller to "design" - thus making them "designers" or worse yet "architects"
like being proud of those homes i posted above- i'm sure theres alot of people who would love to live in them- which is fine. not knowing you live in crap is just as blissful as the next thing....
A local developer built this piece of work for himself on a small island in a critical habitat area without obtaining any of the required permits or variances. He claims (keep in mind his line of work) he didn't know he needed permits. If he had gone through the proper channels he would have only been able to build something a fraction of the size.
Someone should report him, at least he'll get a shitload of fines slapped on him.
He shoud be fined for building a house with its own lighthouse.
Last I heard, he probably will be fined and maybe even made to demolish the lighthouse and pool.
I did a job in Long Island a few years back, we had to go to a zoning hearing for it. Another applicant at the hearing was a builder who had managed to sneak through a permit for a house that had no access: it was a land-locked site behind another house, and the permit reviewer missed that fact because the site plan showed a driveway. Then when the house was done he told the county that since they had issued him a building permit, they were now required to build him a road/utility easement across the neighbor's property so that the new house could have a street address and county services.
It had been tied up in zoning for a long time and was still not close to resolution when the meeting I was at ended. But the balls of this guy, to build a house first, knowing that it was premised on a bogus permit, then demand taxpayer money to make his investment viable. People are jerks sometimes.
bryan4arch your developer guy should have to demolish that hosue himself plus pay for environmental remediation. Jeez.
Not just taxpayer money, but he's fucking over the neighbor, as well! That sucks. I hate developer/builders sometimes. Actually, most times. Almost all times. Argh.
what do you mean i needed a permit?
it's MY land!
Are those palm trees or windmills?
And is it just me, or does the water in that swimming pool look a little funky?
you people really hate american values...
I recently lost an attempt to have a non-permitted structure allowed through a minor variance of the bylaws. It was built a few years ago (I had nothing to do with it). The offensive portion had to be removed.
On the plus side, it resulted in a nice new project for me (same client).
Many authorities are now refusing to approve these things after being built, more on principal (and as punishment), it seems.
light house....hummm think it is his desired penis size which may have been the real concept behind this house....Dick House that is!
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