"NEAR the 18th hole of the Bighorn golf course in Palm Desert, publishing tycoon Duane Hagadone laid out his vision for a dream home to his architect. It would be set high on the bald mountain rising near the green yet be so inconspicuous that he'd have to point it out even to golf buddies. Instead, the home has brought a load of grief for this city now that it is just about complete. Visible from miles away and set on a prominent ridgeline, its frame resembles a wayward space station parked amid the picturesque foothills." latimes | guy dreier designs
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I've seen car dealerships pulled off with more warmth and sense of scale than that polished turd.
holy shit! did palm desert lose a bet?
this project is very consistent, however - it eats shit at all scales. check out pics of the landscape "design" on the architect's website...it looks like the garden department at home depot.
flw afterbirth
yeah, i have to say, the architect's work (from what i've seen on the website, anyway) isn't too bad, although he seems like a lautner knock-off to me. my main issue with it is, as israel touched on, the scale of it!
read the article, it's pretty funny!
i'm trying to figure out who inspired the mcsprawling mansion more- holl or gehry. it's just really ugly. guess money can't buy good design even if it can buy the building permits.
WAIT...how can the entire write-up and a good portion of the article be about how much of an eyesore the thing appears up on the pristine ridge when viewed from a distance and then the slide show doesn't show even one freakin' picture that illustrates this complaint?!?
Do newspaper/magazine writers and their photographers ever talk to one another? This seems to be a common problem...
Damn ugly house, too.
Oh oh oh, and from the website, that pic where from sitting inside the hosue at the dining table you can see the cars parked right below you? I came up with that idea once too - when I was in high school!!!
(OK, mine was through a glass garage door not a floor, but still.)
ha ha ha, liberty bell!
i hate websites with music.
the first thing i look for is the stop button.
They should have stuck it ON the 18th hole...
When your list of acolades include being featured in Architectural Digest and Home & Garden TV you cannot use the phrase 'dramatic innovation' in a sentence, proof again that all guys named 'guy' suck, see guy pierce for proof.
"A tri-level pool bedaubs the rear area of the mansion." -- 'bedaubs' is right!! Isn't it? Actually has anyone ever heard of "bedaub"ing?
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