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SDR
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A souvenir, something made for a gift shop ? One wonders when, where, and by (or for) whom ...
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Roderick Grant
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Which one is it? The monochrome or colored? What happened to the trellis on the uphill side of the house?
I would buy it, but I already have a gold, bejeweled model of Mt. Rushmore, which is quite enough. |
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Paul Ringstrom
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DavidC
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Roderick Grant
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| Though you may be inclined to do so, don't mute this video. The angry music is perfect for this vast, sterile mess of a house. I can imagine the cast of "Game of Thrones" settling in comfortably. |
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DavidC
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SDR
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Both these houses derive their exterior composure---the unity of form, the consistency of detail---from Wright's example, and this gives them whatever quality they possess as architecture.
And one has to admire, in the La Cañada example, the integration of second-floor terraces into the hipped roofs of the main level. It surprises me that Mr Wright seems never to have considered this possibility, inherent in his chosen roof form ?
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Roderick Grant
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| The hip roofs, truncated to allow for second story terraces, is one detail that I find extremely unattractive. I am glad FLW didn't fall into that trap. |
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Paul Ringstrom
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Roderick Grant
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| Interesting house, but there is no focus. It's a collage of bits and pieces, without any control. |
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JimM
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| Roderick Grant wrote: | | The hip roofs, truncated to allow for second story terraces, is one detail that I find extremely unattractive. I am glad FLW didn't fall into that trap. |
Have to agree. A second level terrace similarly concealed between two fully ridged single floor wings would be fine, but not as a primary feature as is the case here, IMO. |
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SDR
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"The hip roofs, truncated to allow for second story terraces, is one detail that I find extremely unattractive. I am glad FLW didn't fall into that trap."
Funny, I don't see it that way; but I respect that it could seem so to other designers. To me it seems the logical solution to the problem created by the
choice of roof pitch, the desire for a no-taller-than-necessary building profile, and the difference (when it occurs, as here) between first-floor and second-
floor enclosed footage.
The design doesn't suggest convenient drainage---and perhaps the discontinuity of the ridge of those lower roofs, from the body of the house, just
feels wrong---or looks wrong from the ground ? It makes for tidy elevations, of course . . .
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