Simply beautiful!
I live in a low-profile home. It's sad to see these type of homes being distroyed to make room for the fugly "McMansions" that have little character.
http://www.eichlernetwork.com/nbrhd_rivercity.html
I'm
I'm calling the agents in the morning to see if they know who the architect was, then getting onto the 20C Society and English Heritage, if neccessary
themodernhouse.com should see if they can become joint agents, then at least they'd get a sympathetic buyer..not a developer
It'd be a tragedy to see this knocked down
Good idea Robert. I would...
Good idea Robert. I would seriously go and view the property if it was within 30-40 miles of my current base - would look fantastic with some tlc, and the tripple garage would make a great (and fitting) showroom for me. Please let us know the outcome of your calls!
Some of us
just get excited by any "original Modern" house, I guess. I know I do. This one is a bit minimal, perhaps -- "less is more, but nothing is. . .nothing" ? It's also a bit sunk into the ground ? But when you've been salivating over Case Study houses for fifty years, and a cousin is threatened, the Pavlovian response kicks in. . .
We trust that it may have charms -- based on the experience so often had in simple forms and sympathetic materials -- that aren't revealed in a few indifferent photos.
It would be nice to see the early photos of this one, before it disappeared within its cocoon of foliage -- the usual state of affairs.
Because Mr wilson...
Folks on this site go gaga for a flat roof and white walls. In Australia of course, flat roofs are not all that successful, because we get lots of big rain (rather than English drizzle) and unfortunately they tend to leak unless you spend squillions getting them just right.
Hmmmmmm...............................
I thought the house was really cool (and still do!) until I realized that in the USA that would be around $1.5+ million!!!!!!! I couldn't read what the square feet of the home is but the lot size is nice! I really can't see tearing it down if it is a home of significant design, but I was thinking, redo kitchen, redo baths, redo floors, redo landscaping, ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching$$$$$$$$ No wonder everyone and his brother from around the world are taking tours to the USA just to snatch up bargin homes! I guess we are just giving them away with the way our housing market is plummeting! Oh, to be a rich American again living in the USA!!!!!!!! I all of a sudden feel so out of touch! "I'm sooooooooo depressed!!!!!!" ~L
Of course it needs...
Of course it needs restoration and updating, if you read my OP, I say that.
I have the advantage of a magazine on my desk with some original photos. As for the price, the UK is small and crowded and, in spite of many of Her majesty's subjects longing to move to Spain, New Zealand or anywhere else with a better climate, there are still more people than houses, especially in villages as close to a good route to London as this one (without being spoiled by that proximity).
On
On population versus space, and therefore price..
The UK has approximately 1/5th of the popualation of the US
(so we don't actually all know each other, and even fewer of us have met The Queen)
We are all crammed on to quite a small island if you look at the map
Properties like this are fairly rare, there are probably more Modernist Art Deco properties, than good architect designed 60s and 70s domestic buildings.
There was a lot more un-built on land and space then.
The price immaterial...
unless you know the market, which I don't.
When I first started in real estate in San Francisco, 30 years ago, lease rates for certain London commercial property was the highest in the world.
Then Hong Kong skyrocketed beyond London.
Then Tokyo.
Then things got pretty high in NYC.
Markets are unrelated to architectural merit, IMHO.
This house seems pretty weak to me, no matter its location.
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