He sucks. He and his wife bought a gorgeous historically-significant midcentury home in LA, designed by famous architect & landscape architect—and leveled ALL of it. Even the landscape. I have architect friends out there who called me in a fury. Lots of other stuff he’s done that’s not cool, but that’s my big beef.
And suddenly it fell into place. He and his wife were the ones who bought, and tore down the Zimmerman House.
This is why the US has no architectural identity, it's just build and tear down, had it not been destroyed last year, it would have celebrated 75 years of existence this year.
Why would someone buy a five bedroom house if what they wanted was a mansion?
I agree with you wholeheartedly. It was gross & he’s an asshole. But apparently we’re in the minority and there are hordes of downvoters who think “history, schmistory”.
The house was incredibly important, with not only the home itself but the landscape, designed by renowned architects. It’s a loss. And all so they can build some ugly $10 million McMansion that is way too big for that site.
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