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Architecture

FLH03RIDER

FLH03RIDER

Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
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Uptown, Penthouse #3
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Up to two now.
I left the title simply as "Architecture" as I didn't want it strictly related to this initial post, id est, "a house for sale".
The Philip Johnson House in Newburgh, N.Y. is for sale at $2.9M. Built in the late 1940's and was fairly recently restored.

The Mid-Century Modern, Craftsman, Bauhaus styles have always appealed to me.
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Info link here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/realestate/philip-johnson-house-newburgh-sale.html
 
Timber Frame construction is pretty cool too! Read an article several years ago about that home (or one similar) and sourcing / incorporating those two trees in the construction. Sweet home!
 
Yep. I have a home with Spanish architecture. Lots of arches and soft corners. A very soothing place in which to live. And very similar to both Greek and Navajo architecture.
 
Killroy1999 said:
Give me a Spanish architecture home
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To a point.

Not 5 years ago we lost, I dunno, 30+ houses in OC in a "wild" interface area. Stucco, tile roofs, etc. If you've ever seen OC, there's a LOT of "Spanish" architecture. (I put Spanish in quotes like Taco Bell has "Mexican" food -- inspired at best.) But the trick is that the eaves are still wood, and that's still a place where fire can sneak in from a wind fueled red hot ember.

Get a neighbors house lit up, and even though your house is coated on concrete and ceramic tile, the wood underneath can still get very hot and combust. In the end, we're all wooden boxes in a (thin) ceramic shell.

So Cal used to be notorious for the wood shake roofs -- long since banned by the state, replaced with concrete that looks like wood shake roofs.

Pretty house, btw.
 
Yes. Just a stucco home with Spanish architecture.
 
Frank O. Gehry, one of the most formidable and original talents in the history of American architecture, died on Friday at his home in Santa Monica, Calif.
He was 96. Always liked his sophisticated, visionary, eclectic style to designing large buildings. RIP Sir. :rose
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If only there was an architect here to comment on some of this. If only....
 
FLH03RIDER said:
I left the title simply as "Architecture" as I didn't want it strictly related to this initial post, id est, "a house for sale".
The Philip Johnson House in Newburgh, N.Y. is for sale at $2.9M. Built in the late 1940's and was fairly recently restored.

The Mid-Century Modern, Craftsman, Bauhaus styles have always appealed to me.
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Info link here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/realestate/philip-johnson-house-newburgh-sale.html
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same! i also love brutalist architecture.
 
Drop coin Bruce. I will be there for the housewarming. :teeth
 
pretty stuff.

All I know about architecture is where to put the DBs and message queues and who calls what.
 
I recently learned you can buy a stripper pole from Walmart.
I think that fits nicely here.
#stayingclassy
 
Eichlers are cool to look at, but I would never want one. I grew up in an Eichler. They have no insulation. The roof is only 1.5ā€ thick. They have concrete slab foundations which prevents access to the sewer and water pipes underneath. They are heated by radiant heat systems that died many, many years ago. Most now have electric baseboard heaters. They have large, single pane windows in the living room that let your heat out. And single pane windows which do the same thing. Etc, etcā€¦.

They were a post WWII design that was made cheaply for all the GIā€™s returning from the war.

I recommend getting a conventional home with a crawl space or basement so you have access to pipes and things, regular windows that can be easily upgraded, an attic space that can be insulated, and a regular heating system.

I can guarantee you would be disappointed with an Eichler.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but itā€™s the truth about Eichlers.
 
ST Guy said:
Eichlers are cool to look at, but I would never want one. I grew up in an Eichler. They have no insulation. The roof is only 1.5ā€ thick. They have concrete slab foundations which prevents access to the sewer and water pipes underneath. They are heated by radiant heat systems that died many, many years ago. Most now have electric baseboard heaters. They have large, single pane windows in the living room that let your heat out. And single pane windows which do the same thing. Etc, etcā€¦.

They were a post WWII design that was made cheaply for all the GIā€™s returning from the war.

I recommend getting a conventional home with a crawl space or basement so you have access to pipes and things, regular windows that can be easily upgraded, an attic space that can be insulated, and a regular heating system.

I can guarantee you would be disappointed with an Eichler.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but itā€™s the truth about Eichlers.
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Totally agree. :thumbup
I've never actually lived in one, but I feel like I grew up in several of those homes. They're littered throughout the Northgate area of San Rafael and most of my young friends resided in them. I was just a kid but vividly recall them being constantly under repair. Most owners eventually gave up on the radiant floor heating and went the conventional furnace route, which sucked because those homes were never built with ducting.
Yes....they were indeed way ahead of their time.....from a "HVAC and roofing contractors getting rich" point of view.
 
Yep. Our family once came home from a vacation one evening to find the living room floor covered in an inch and a half of water. The repair job involved trashing the entire floor and a jackhammer to open up the concrete so the radiant heat pipes could be repaired. New concrete was then poured and we had to wait until it set fully before we could have an entire new floor installed.

Not fun.
 
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