Posthumously stated, ‘gimme the loot, gimme the loot’

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[Image: Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan, via the National Trust For Historic Preservation]

Ned Cramer, editor in chief, writes in the Winter 2008 Product Spec Guide of Architect magazine:

But Johnson and his late partner, the collector David Whitney, left the Glass House estate in less-than-pristine condition. So the trust sent out its brochure…as a wish list of projects that require funding. Each initiative comes with a price tag, from $10,000…to $500,000 toward the purchase of an adjacent parcel of land, to prevent the construction of McMansions that would spoil the view.

This is Connecticut [more specifically Fairfield County] and its normal to see plots of land purchased to be subdivided to fit as many big-ass houses in one area as possible. But if you’re gonna be that much of a prick [knowing full well whose property you are proposing to build next to] I hope that Earl’s karma comes in and kick the crap out of ya. Or at the very least meet the funding amount needed to purchase the land.

.:Check Mr. Cramer’s article ->

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Posted: October 6th, 2008
at 11:27am by Dubs


Categories: architecture, my ninja, please

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