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post #16 of 26
6/16/07 at 7:13pm
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Unfortunately, not true at all. It all comes down to who owns/buys what, regardless of whether it is a major work or a minor work. Many modern masterpieces were built on prime pieces of property, so if someone buys one and wants to tear down the existing structure and build a fake Tuscan villa, there's nothing stopping it.
The irony is that the Travertine House was sold by New York's MOMA. Look where it ended up--in Modern House heaven. Some of Frank Lloyd Wright's concrete block houses are decrepit as well.
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post #17 of 26
6/16/07 at 7:19pm
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The Paul Rudolph house certainly had some potential, starting with getting rid of that hideous pool. It looks to be in terrible condition.

JB

If I recall, the new owners who bought the house said it wasn't "family-friendly" or some other nonsense.
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post #18 of 26
6/16/07 at 11:26pm
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If I recall, the new owners who bought the house said it wasn't "family-friendly" or some other nonsense.

The obvious question is: Why the hell did they buy it?
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post #19 of 26
6/17/07 at 12:27am
The lot? I had a pre-earthquake house in San Francisco,circa 1870,-in original condition-and tried very hard to get someone to buy and, at the minimum, keep it looking original. I landed up selling it to a developer.
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post #20 of 26
6/17/07 at 12:56am
Now, if only Harvard Law School could raze the Gropius Complex.

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post #21 of 26
6/17/07 at 4:28am
There's a lot of animosity for new traditional homes.

What's wrong with building a Federalist style house, or a typical French chateau with the vaulted ceilings?
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post #22 of 26
6/17/07 at 4:42am
dude....this is why you can't get laidl.
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post #23 of 26
7/9/07 at 3:18am
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Here's another travesty by those totems of progress: the demolition of the Ambassador Hotel in L.A.

http://ambassadorhotel.blogspot.com/
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post #24 of 26
7/9/07 at 4:49pm
This thread sounds like The Fountainhead
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post #25 of 26
7/10/07 at 6:15pm
Aesthetics of modern is so dead that people find it hard to protest the demise of those "landmarks". Some recent one was Department Store in Moscow that was completed in 1913 and was one of the largest modern buildings in Russia and EU. Well it was ugly. Modern did not survive the test of time I guess.
Unless it is very early modern like this:
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post #26 of 26
7/10/07 at 10:52pm
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Originally Posted by dkzzzz View Post
Aesthetics of modern is so dead that people find it hard to protest the demise of those "landmarks". Some recent one was Department Store in Moscow that was completed in 1913 and was one of the largest modern buildings in Russia and EU. Well it was ugly. Modern did not survive the test of time I guess.
Unless it is very early modern like this:

It's always interesting to me how these 50-80 year old movements still get people so riled up.
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