Inside the 'Glass Pavilion'

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Peek inside a $35 million glass house

By Sushil Cheema, photos by William MacCollum and Jim Bartsch, WSJ.com Aug 18, 2010

Known for his modern designs, Los Angeles- based architect Steve Hermann finished his latest project in Montecito, Calif., about four months ago.

Mr. Hermann considers the home, called the Glass Pavilion, his “opus.”

When he builds in the Hollywood Hills or Beverly Hills, Mr. Herman says he is usually restricted to a small lot.

This lot measures about three-and-a-half acres and gave him the space he needed to create a home featuring walls of glass.

"Here I have complete privacy," Mr. Herman says.

"It allows you to be one with nature inside the house."

The 13,875-square-foot home features five bedrooms, five-and-a-half bathrooms, a kitchen with a wine room and an art gallery that displays the architect’s vintage car collection.

Mr. Hermann, who has a passion for mid-century modern furnishings, also designed some of the home's furniture, including the benches in the hallway.

He originally built the home for himself, but while the six-year project was underway, he says, his plans changed.

Among those changes, he notes, was the birth of his daughter, now 10 months old.

Mr. Hermann says he will likely rent another home for awhile before embarking on another project for himself.

The home is now listed for $35 million, and the furnishings are negotiable. Suzanne Perkins of Sotheby's International Realty has the listing.

Minimalist House in the Hills by Marte.Marte

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Unique Prefab House Small Home Project by ConHouse

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Modern Orange Weekend Retreat in Carreço, Viana do Castelo by Nuno Grande + Pedro Gadanho

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Located in the town of Carreço, Viana do Castelo, architect Nuno Grande + Pedro Gadanho has designed a modern home architecture with uniquely chosen exterior paint color. For such a modern house design, the architect prefered to use orange rather than black (or white).The design adapts the program to a narrow and long plot, with a smooth slope, over the Atlantic shore. Minimizing landscape impacts, and skipping the legal setback, the main volume “moulds” itself to the site’s topography through the cantilevered extension of the upper floors. One of these projections, with near 8 meters, configures a balcony-terrace outside, hovering and opening onto the garden and the surrounding landscape.



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California Cooper Residence Suburban House Design

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Not much of our posts which has examples of house styled with industrial design, so now we’re bringing one from California-based firm Randy Weinstein Design. The Cooper Residence which located in Santa Monica, California delivered the taste of industrial flavor on its interior while keeping the suburban design on the exterior.

Ginkgo Poolside Roadside Minimalist Lounge Design

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Designer Tiago Miguel A.M.S. Rosado have completed the Ginkgo lounge design which located between the ol’ water hole and the road of an apartment-hotel. The bar and lounge is available for the aparthotel and also the entire public....read more

The Zimmerman House in Manchester,Frank Lloyd Wright

If you were to approach the Zimmerman House in Manchester, NH from behind, through the leafy screen of landscaping that hugs the hill into which it is nestled, this is what you’d see: a sleek, low-slung brick and cedar house sandwiched between grass and green.

The only New England residence designed by Frank Lloyd Wright which is open to the public, the Zimmerman House is owned and maintained by Manchester’s Currier Museum of Art, which offers daily reservation-only tours of the house and grounds. As in the Museum proper, photography is disallowed inside the Zimmerman House…but our guide encouraged us to burn our camera batteries outside.

From the front, the Zimmerman House looks unremarkable at first glance, a ranch-style house amongst New England Victorians and Capes. With its small, concrete-block windows, the front of the Zimmerman House looks (to my eye) almost like a garage, an impression that was corroborated when our tour headed down the street to drive by (and ogle) the privately owned Kalil House, a Wright-designed residence build entirely of concrete blocks. If the front of the Zimmerman House looks a bit like a garage, the front of the Kalil House looks a lot like a bunker.



Although I’m not sure anything would change my first impression of the Kalil House, things at the Zimmerman started to look up when we went inside and then out back to admire from both perspectives the window-rich rear facade.




It was only after I’d seen the Zimmerman House’s backside that I warmed up to the place, recognizing and admiring its long-hanging, cantilevered eaves as being quintessential Wright.

Build into a sloping lawn, the Zimmerman House is low-slung, nearly sunk into earth. Viewed from inside the living room, the ground is appropriately at ground level; from the rear guest room, though, the ground outside is eye-level. As we stood under the front eaves waiting to enter the Zimmerman House, our guide explained that Frank Lloyd Wright was a short man who typically designed houses with his own height in mind. Since Isidore Zimmerman was taller than Wright, the Zimmerman House has higher eaves and ceilings than a typical Wright-designed residence…but I still got the distinct impression of entering an ultra-funky, long and lean hobbit-hole: a house that hugs the ground.



To my eye, the outside of the Zimmerman House is all about its eaves, jutting and hanging in odd-angled, cantilevered glory.

Wright’s Usonian houses do not feature garages; instead, the Zimmerman has an impractically shallow carport that would have sheltered the hoods of the Zimmermans’ black and white Thunderbirds. Whatever the Zimmerman carport lacks in terms of automotive utility, it compensates with its lean and sleek style, its long, low-pitched roof topping a narrow opening that allowed some intriguing peekaboo pictures.

Here, from the backyard, you can see through the carport our Museum shuttle parked out front…

And here from inside the carport (now used as a reception area where we all donned disposable hospital booties before entering the premises), you can see the back yard at eye level…

And here, in my favorite carport peekaboo, you can see the brick wall of the rear guest room and one of Wright’s famous beveled-glass corner windows. Look ma: no window frame!

I’m not sure I would like to live in the Zimmerman House: even as a short, single person, I think I’d feel cramped and crowded there. But the Zimmermans themselves loved the house that Frank built, living there for 36 years (and opening their doors to architecturally minded strangers) before bequeathing it to the Currier. Walking through a house still stocked with its previous owners’ knickknacks, clothing, and belongings is a bit like visiting a haunted house: you get a feel for the Zimmermans’ taste as much as you get an appreciation for Wright’s designing eye. Although I didn’t hear any ghostly whispers emanating from any of those long and low eaves, it did feel a bit like I was eavesdropping.

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What is? Modern House

Modern House

Modern Architecture became linked to a certain genre of building and thus over time wasn't really 'modern' anymore. Thus Modern Houses (or Modernist Houses) suggests a certain style, not simply a 'contemporary' or 'current' construction.
Modern Architecture was associated with some great architects and some powerful countries and companies. It became the equivalent of the Classical Style in the Georgian period, ie the establishment architecture, the status quo. Since the seventies architecture styles have become more fractured and we have - amongst what could be termed contemporary architects - post-modernists, neo-modernists, deconstructivists, contextualists, expressionists and so on.

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