After a short day of demolition, the Lloyd Wright-designed Moore House in Palos Verdes Estates is gone. The city council denied an LA Conservancy appeal of the demo last night and the Conservancy's Director of Communications Cindy Olnick tells us she's just heard from the city that the deed is now completely done.. the current owner bought it in 2004 and says he never even knew who Wright was. For years now the owner has been trying to tear the house down and build a Mediterranean-style house... — la.curbed.com
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Excellent...really needed another NEO-mediterranean!
wow. this world is going to shit.
"calling for a new home that meet the owner’s personal aspirations and of a design within the Mediterranean style"
Here is the problem. The public does not know the difference between design and style.
Just another stale McMansion. The owner never heard of Wright? Was he/she a third grade dropout? Idiotic!!
even if this wasn't a flw house, it makes no sense to demolish a house that looks like this just to build another house in its place. people with the means to be ridiculous often are ridiculous.
Mediterranean-style house?!! What the fuck does that even mean? The Med is a huge region spanning dozens of cultures across millenia of styles. Damn near anything other than an igloo could be described as Mediterranean, yo!
Just to clarify, this house was designed by Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright's son.
mediterranean... great.. another out of place mcmansion.
ah, thanks for clearing that up. dumb moment. and still, the waste. i mean, technically all new work is contemporary, but it's hard to argue that a mediterranean-style house built on an entirely different continent than the mediterranean is going to be more important to culture than the moore house. this is definitely a case where the people involved should be concerned with preservation. ugh.
WOW, WHAT A SHAME.
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