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What an amazing house
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Well given its age..... The original owners renamed it "Rising damp" apparently.up for anything wrote: »The location is very picturesque and the waterfall is lovely but all that greenery is claustrophobic and the damp in the house in 10 years time will be appalling.
More down to the construction methods more than the design. If built today you could make it a lot more damp proof.
As a design and how it fits in the landscape it's pretty damned impressive. Originally the client wanted a weekend getaway house further down the river, a favourite spot for summer picnics. Wright,integrated the house into the scene in a very clever way. Made an average enough looking site so much more. He did it very quickly too. He only sketched it when he knew the client was coming to see him with an hours warning. He was supposed to be working on it for months, so it as a rush job initially. Originally he wanted to clad the sticky out bits in silver or gold leaf, but thankfuly the client went WTF to that notion.
Eh no. You wouldn't. You really wouldn't.You'd see more amazing buildings on Grand Designs any day of the week.
I would tend to agree. It's brave, but it mixes too many angles for the sake of it IMHO. What appears to be the nod to the white bungalow in the facade is ok as a joke, but as architecture? Im not so sure. It does fit into the surroundings more than usual though.That house looks like a school or something,just looks so cold and out of place.
It's location is spectacular, but its overall design for me is pretty dire IMHO. Typical lets build big vibe to it. Feck all balance and doesnt fit the surroundings. No wonder they keep outside views of the house to a minimum. A talented architect and visually open client could have made so so much more of that site.
Now each to their own, but this thread and some of the comments within it are reminding me why our recent architectural heritage is pretty damn sparse and why bungalow blight ruined the Irish landscape. Then the celtic tiger came along and we had such out of balance monstrosities as the one in that ad. As a culture, we really lack a visual eye in a lot of ways. We either build cheap or follow the mainstream american notion of more is more. Yet we do have a historical vernacular we could refer to. One going back 1000's of years too.
I'm not one of those who just wants modernist stuff. A lot of it is dire. I like balanced architecture, old and new. Some of our Georgian stuff is gorgeous in it's balance. Ditto for the Dutch style houses that preceded them(but were often updated). Most of the new builds Ive seen, expensive and more reasonable tend to be either godawful or clumsy attempts at modernism.
Then again each to their own and if that's what the majority want.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Oh yea I agree, its lost a lot of the human in it. Putting people in the pictures would ruin it in a way. Very sterile.I couldn't imagine living in it though,it just doesn't give off a homely feel.
Do you think so?I wouldn't really agree,it's just so big and imposing in that field imo.
I do love the windows though.Maybe,just the thought of a house so close to sea though,I love it,plus the wooden spiral staircase looks great too.
I should just make like Blue Lagoon and buy a houseboat.:pac: Yea I'd love it if it fitted in to the environment, had a touch more local stone, less floors, maybe in a long curve to fit int and mirror the bay.
Yep and the bungalows were pretty hideous to start with. Though most were built at a time when we had no money so understandable.I'd have to agree with the massive houses appearing during the boom times.
I live down the country and up untill a few years ago you'd rarely see a huge house around here,was all bungalows mostly.
Down the road though these monsters of houses were built among little bungalows and holiday homes,most of them just ruin the whole atmosphere,all grey and half built.:(
+1000 shows up a serious taste bypass.Feckin 7 bedroom houses beside modest little farms and sheds,looks so weird.Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Think it might be a bit overdone though. 
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