My friend Louie Frazier (the featured builder in Home Work), lives on the outskirts of Pt. Arena, and I make the 3-hour drive along the coast to visit him every few months. My routine is to get on the road by 6 AM, get a latte at Toby’s Feed Barn in Point Reyes Station, then drive along the shores of Tomales Bay and then the ocean. On the way I often stop off to skateboard at Sea Ranch, the planned coastal community that stretches along 10 miles of the California coast, south of Gualala. Here is a nice old farm building with shake roof at Sea Ranch, obviously left over from the old days, and better in style and design (in my opinion) than just about any of the rather sterile looking, no-overhang newer buildings designed by architects. The brilliance of Sea Ranch is in its landscape design or rather, the lack thereof. Landscape designer Lawrence Halperin left just about everything in its natural state, and it’s very peaceful on the eyes.
House in the middle of the Drina River near the town of Bajina Basta, Serbia
Photograph by Irene Becker
Sent in by Lew lewandowski
Hello Lloyd,
I’m an occasional reader of your blog and I recently visited a fascinating building that you might be interested in. The actual building definitely doesn’t fit into the tiny homes category but I wonder if the technique could be modified to make a smaller dwelling? Or has it ever been used before on a smaller scale?
The building is located in the UK at https://www.wealddown.co.uk/ and there is a detailed description of the construction technique here https://shltr.net/gridshl
Keep up the good work,
Jeremy
I like this place. (Yes I do.) Gutsy architecture. Wonder what it’s like inside. I’ve shot pictures of it a few times before.
I’m about to head north, maybe to Pismo Beach tonight.
There’s so much hideous architecture in the rich parts of LA, it’s a pleasure to see the art as practiced here, with these 2 beachside houses.
Wood-lined tunnel leading into the Grand Meadow in the 585-acre Prospect Park, Brooklyn, which was designed in 1865 by Frederick Law Olmsted & Calvert Vaux, and built in 1866-1873. The tunnel makes for a dramatic introduction to the beauty of the park.
Tree-lined street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Imagine what this street would be like without the trees.
Your guess is as good as mine. Neighbors must be horrified.
Photo from woodworker Peter Follansbee’s website. Check out also Peter’s wood carvings.
Thanks to Bob Dow
Although I gave up on domes many years ago, I never lost my fascination with polyhedra. So when I heard about the exhibit on the roof garden at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I went to see it. It turned out to be squashed and stretched hexagons and pentagons of steel, acrylic, and polyester. You could walk around inside it. By Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno.
