Monday
22 March 2010
As newsjunkie reaches for another mince pie, it seems architects are casting aside their selection boxes and getting stuck into the spirit of the season (and I’m not just talking about a tipple of festive sherry).
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Despite the best efforts of the Ennis House Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright’s house has hit the market and is being sold as a private property for a cool $15 million. Seems that keeping the house in good working order was just too expensive for the Foundation to keep paying out.
Also in the US, Hadid and van Berkel’s Burnham Pavilions open to the public. And despite construction activity grinding to a halt in Dubai and investors holding their heads in their hands in despair, all is not over for the Dubai approach to development, says the LA Times.
It seems that Frank Lloyd Wright, a man whose relationships with women in his private life are infamously scandalous, was actually an early leader in employing female architects. So no more excuses from the profession please; if it could be done then then there’s no reason why women shouldn’t be as employable as men now.
And, in a move apparently “unprecedented around the world”, Libeskind has branched out into prefab design. Although to get one of his angular homes you’ll need to shell out $2 million. So much for prefab being the more affordable option…
They say that as you get older you begin to dread birthdays, but News Junkie still loves them, as long as they’re not her own. Today we’re celebrating Frank Lloyd Wright’s.
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