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"My citroen won't start" (lucasboechat) 07/12/2017 at 17:27 • Filed to: None

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Yes, this is what houses should look like.

Chariotoflove > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 17:32

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I quite like that, except for all the steps.

TheHondaBro > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 17:32

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No.

My citroen won't start > TheHondaBro 07/12/2017 at 17:35

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yes

benjrblant > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 17:37

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Nice.

Mercedes Streeter > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 17:37

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I see your staircase nightmare and raise you a living room garage.

Or a house that once flew.

Ash78, voting early and often > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 17:39

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That’s a little too “60s California” (aka “Brady Bunch”) for me, but if it fits the neighborhood, then it’s not bad. If I saw that in my area — and there are plenty — I’d turn my back on curb appeal alone. Nice landscaping, though.

My citroen won't start > Mercedes Streeter 07/12/2017 at 17:39

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Did he sell the Ferrari and buy a Maserati now that he has a kid?

That’s Holger Schubert!

My citroen won't start > Ash78, voting early and often 07/12/2017 at 17:44

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Yeah, I guess, I mostly posted this picture because 911E, 356 and Allroad on the garage. Mies Van der Rohe’s Farmhouse is more my style.

Mercedes Streeter > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 17:45

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Huh, I literally just did a Google search for “living room with car” and took my favourite result. Neat!

My citroen won't start > Chariotoflove 07/12/2017 at 17:45

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Now that I think about it, most Mid-century Modern Architecture is full of steps/elevations changes for not good reason (other than aesthetics).

Textured Soy Protein > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 17:55

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As a fan of mid-century modern architecture, I approve, but I’d also rather have a garage than a carport.

notsomethingstructural > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 18:16

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*farnsworth house, smh

My citroen won't start > notsomethingstructural 07/12/2017 at 18:19

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I think that was the best auto-correct.

Thanks for pointing it out, Kinja won’t allow me to edit that.  

notsomethingstructural > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 18:25

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im partial to the johnson/glass house but ill stan for mies even if the seagrams building is overrated

Milky > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 18:27

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My wants.

http://www.estately.com/listings/info/1412-joliet

Chariotoflove > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 18:29

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Everybody traditionally thinks steps are the best way to visually transition between spaces. The universal design movement works to change that perception and debunk it. Good design doesn’t need steps, and removing them actually increases the usability of a space.

My citroen won't start > notsomethingstructural 07/12/2017 at 18:30

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Seagrams building is indeed overrated, but I tend to prefer Brutalist buildings over anything else.

notsomethingstructural > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 18:39

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ive been in and around a great number of award-winning brutalist structures and let me tell you they look a lot better in photos than on the street. theyre impossible to maintain so they just look run-down.

My citroen won't start > notsomethingstructural 07/12/2017 at 18:44

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I kinda like that, some of my favorites are Soviet era structures, most them look run/are down now.

The many experimental bus stops are among my favourites

Also, this happens to be one of my favourite books

RPM esq. > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 18:53

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That’s most true at the later end, as things like sunken living rooms became A Thing in the ‘60s and architects got cuter with multiple masses. For example: my parents’ house (a mid-century modern but built pretty late—early ‘70s, I think) has a nice and usable floorplan, and complements its lot and maximizes its view in all the ways you’d want a modern house to achieve, but it’s a morass of elevation changes and stairs and odd angles. It does sort of work to divide an open floor plan into separate “rooms” visually without losing the sense of airiness and light, and the floor plan is very usable and pleasant, but it’s going to become dangerous if they still live in it as they get old.

Meanwhile, my house (an earlier mid-century modern—mid ‘50s, albeit renovated to open up the interior spaces somewhat) is a very simple shape divided up intelligently and with no elevation changes other than the stairs between the two floors.

Kiltedpadre > Mercedes Streeter 07/12/2017 at 19:01

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I know a man that turned the bulk of the garage under his house into a bar/game room after he built a pole barn. The wall beside what’s left of the garage is basically a big picture window. One of the installers asked him why in the world he wanted a huge window looking into the garage. He took them to the pole barn and showed them the 1936 Packard that was going to be parked in that garage.

notsomethingstructural > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 19:03

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im a structural engineer and folded plate structures are pretty cool, but shells blow me away. felix candela made some dope fucking shit. 2" thick virtually unreinforced concrete domes. its crazy.

soviet bloc stuff is pretty legit too, though i feel like that borders on distinct from brutalist

My citroen won't start > notsomethingstructural 07/12/2017 at 19:49

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I guess, it ain’t that easy placing Soviet structures, I consider most of them to be brutalist. I do urge you to check Soviet Bus Stops though, some interesting shit in there.

http://fuel-design.com/publishing/soviet-bus-stops/

Los Manatiales (I guess that’s the name) has to be my favourite Candela, recently went to a an Art Gallery that had some photo studies about it, shame it looks like it does now.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Chariotoflove 07/12/2017 at 20:38

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I agree. I prefer differences in ceiling height to achieve the same objective.

fintail > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 21:24

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If I am going wood mid-century, a nice Arthur Erickson design can work. My favorite is the Catton House (1967):

Clown Shoe Pilot > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 22:22

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I have a Lego model of this house sitting on a shelf over my desk as I type this!

Frank Grimes > My citroen won't start 07/12/2017 at 22:35

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It reminds me of an eichler i grew up near a neighborhood that had many eichler homes and have always wanted to buy one when I got rich.

pip bip - choose Corrour > My citroen won't start 07/13/2017 at 06:30

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that Soviet bus stop book by Christopher Herwig is fantastic.

BayAreaMiataBoi > Frank Grimes 07/13/2017 at 10:03

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Don’t get an early Eichler. We bought an early ‘50s one in California when it was the cheapest comparable in town, lived in it for about 6 years, and sold it with over $45k in upgrades. It was still not a comfortable house. 

CaptDale - is secretly British > My citroen won't start 07/13/2017 at 12:49

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I like the Ben Rose House

Otherwise known as the Ferris Bueller Day Off house

The Ben Rose House is a private residence designed by modernist architect A. James Speyer , a student of Mies van der Rohe and built in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois in 1953. [1] Textile artist Ben Rose and his wife, Francis, moved into the property the same year. An adjoining pavilion meant to showcase the Roses’ collection of exotic sports cars was added by David Haid, Speyer’s student, in 1974. [2] The house was designated an official local landmark in 1987. [3] The two buildings are steel framed, rectangular glass-and-wood boxes, and similar to Mies’ iconic Farnsworth House , are both lifted above the ground on pylons. [1]

The house was featured in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off after being selected by filmmaker John Hughes via studio executive Ned Tanen , a Ferrari collector and an acquaintance of Rose. [4]

The Ben Rose House was priced at $2.3 million in 2009, but languished on the market for several years before finally being purchased for $1.06 million in 2014. [3] 

CaptDale - is secretly British > My citroen won't start 07/13/2017 at 12:53

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I also really like the Hoke House. Built in 06 through 07. Very modern and picturesque in the woods