We never would have expected Tom Kundig to be embroiled in legal battle with a community of conservationists, but the characteristically eco-minded architect was slapped with a lawsuit a few weeks ago by residents of Methow Valley, WA. As it turns out, one of Kundig’s newest construction, dubbed the Flagg Mountain Hut, protrudes into the viewshed of a pristine ridge in the valley... the community is not happy with the project and they’ve launched a campaign asking the owners to move the hut. — inhabitat.com
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Move that hut!!!
At least it's not an E+O claim...
Rich people with commanding view entitlements and cabins they only visit for two weeks in a year, their white architects, their white ecological activism neighbors and the fucking Beverly Hills Ridge. Why they don't all fuck themselves and leave us alone?
Fuck.
LED, who are we talking about here? the rich white people complaining, or the rich white people building?
^ Exactly. I can never keep straight which of the rich, white people we're supposed to hate more. It's so confusing.
I only complain about rich people of all colors who don't pay their Bill.
I can see where the frustrated comments here are coming from. I like the project very much though. It stays off the ground and formulates an impressive overhanging gesture at the ridge line. The problem with zoning in the US is that the citizen living in the meadow shouldn't probably live there either! Construction within pristine wilderness should be entirely restricted to specialty uses- a chalet for hikers and skiers for example. I understand that this goes against the American spirit of ownership. But it makes me sick driving by spectacular red rock formations south of Moab , Utah, and seeing some trashy Mac cheese single family home development in front of it.
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