Your favorite famous house

[Tuesday Afternoon]

taj majal


falling water


white house


Lincoln's log cabin


westminister palace
http://bp0.blogger.com/_l8YK4Xr6MaM/Rp8-Cgex9gI/AAAAAAAAACA/zwLWf6kUYrY/s400/Westminster+V+Medi.jpg

versailles


biltmore house

[kentauros]

1. The Winchester Mystery House

Also, the Murder Castle of H.H. Holmes



Yeah, I'm wyrd

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. cool

weird-o ;)

[LostInAnomie]

3. I don't think the Taj is a house, is it?

I thought it was a mausoleum. I could be wrong though. And, since I'm not going to bother to look it up... meh...

[kentauros]

4. You should post your cartoon-icon's house then

:P

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. oh yeah. I forgot. oopsie

I suck

[hyphenate]

38. GTMA

That was what I was going to mention as well, so the two of us can't both be wrong, can we?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Tuesday Afternoon!

Ah......Falling Water!

It is my favorite of all those listed!

I was lucky enough to see it a year ago...

It is huge and gorgeous!

Sigh.

:hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. neat

:hi:

[applegrove]

30. Lucky you.

[Quantess]

6. I picked Versailles because that's the only one I have visited.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. I bet it is gorgeous.

:hi:

[Moondog]

10. Biltmore.

Definitely.

The White House is a goldfish bowl; the Taj is a tomb; like most of FLW's stuff, there are problems with the roof and the windows at Fallingwater; the log cabin is a wee bit rustic for me; Westminster is drafty; and Versailles was built without bathrooms. Besides, I like the area around Asheville.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. Frank's designs were ahead of engineering. But, I have to agree

that the Biltmore has great appeal although I could add some bathrooms to Versailles and be quite comfortable :)

[pokerfan]

35. I read somewhere

that Frank Lloyd Wright's designs were supposed to make sense frome the inside and not necessarily the outside.

[NNadir]

48. Of course, there's a word for an architect who doesn't understand engineering limits.

It's called "incompetent."

"Falling Water" might be art, but as architecture, it may be over-rated.

Lots of people tried to warn Wright about "Falling Water."

A lot of money has been spent trying to keep it from falling down.

Personally, I hope that in the future waterfalls will not be converted to houses, but that's just my view.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

54. yeah. Just because you can draw it doesn't mean you can build it

[nuxvomica]

44. I was happily surprised it was on the list

Not only is it one of the few I've actually visited, it's the setting for one of my favorite movies: Being There.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

52. that was a good flick

Shirley Maclaine cracked me up :D

[Curtland1015]

11. This one!

:D

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. hee

~giggle~ :thumbsup:

[pokerfan]

14. other

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. monticello! of course

yay Thomas

[dgibby]

57. You win!

[Mad_Dem_X]

66. Yes!

:loveya:

[EndersDame]

15. Bag End!!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. so cozy. Indeed!

:applause:

[pokerfan]

21. you should see the interior

I'm so glad Jackson used John Howe and not the Brothers Hildebrandt.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

24. I remember how enchanting

it was. Those films are visually stunning. Tolkein really did create a separate universe.

[EndersDame]

32. My boyfrien's parents house was designed and inspired after it

His step father built it himself

[pokerfan]

34. Do you have pictures?

It sounds cool.

[EndersDame]

36. I will take some tomorrow and PM you

It is also done with "green building" techniques

[pokerfan]

41. Cool

Thanks.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

42. Hey

May I see them too?

[EndersDame]

50. sure!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

53. cool, thanks

:)

[pokerfan]

18. I'll see your Bag End

and raise you with Imladris:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

20. not so cozy but Nice Indeed.

takes the breath away.

[Jade Fox]

37. yeah, baby!

My favorite part of the movie was that house.

[GreenPartyVoter]

56. Such a sweet little home. :^)

[Withywindle]

59. That's the one I want to live in n/t

[EndersDame]

61. My boyfrien's parents house was designed and inspired after it

His stepfather built it him self using green materials and is extremely energy efficient

[Burma Jones]

19. Been to Falling Water four times

Once, my hiking buddies and I were so caked in mud they would only let us tour the outside. That day there was a steady rain so you could see how water was channeled around and through the house down to the stream.

Another time, there was snow and it was about 5 degrees Fahrenheit so you could see how the ice frames parts of the house, all the fireplaces were blazing and we were the only people on the tour that day.

Another time, the flowering forest plants were blooming wildly

The last time was during the peak of the fall colors

[Tuesday Afternoon]

22. great place to commune with nature.

I would love to see it just once. Lucky you :thumbsup:

[mnhtnbb]

23. Actually, that's Westminster Abbey--not palace--isn't it? Besides

Westminster Palace houses Parliament. It's not a residence.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

25. actually this a throwaway copy cat thread...

:blush:

[NJmaverick]

26. Biltmore is quite impressive

until you posted it I had never seen nor heard of it.

[mnhtnbb]

27. Biltmore gardens are quite impressive in the spring. The rooms

are decorated at Christmas (actually before Thanksgiving) and is quite a sight on a candlelight tour.

[Va Lefty]

28. This one...

[Tuesday Afternoon]

46. heh

:thumbsup:

[woofless]

29. Secretariat

[kentauros]

31. HOUSE not "horse"

:P

[woofless]

33. Oohhhhh.

Never mind.

[DeepBlueC]

39. Taj Mahal is a tomb

So not that.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

40. The Schonbrunn in Vienna

http://www.schoenbrunn.at/en/things-to-know/360-view.html

[Tuesday Afternoon]

45. Thats a lot of House

:o

[seemunkee]

43. Gamble House designed by Greene and Greene

I love their designs

[Tuesday Afternoon]

47. Tarzan's Treehouse

[Skittles]

49. Hill House

from the movie The Haunting (1963)



now known as Effington Park Hotel in England

[Tuesday Afternoon]

51. oh yeah. cool and that reminds of the Dark Shadow House

[kentauros]

58. It was an evil house from the beginning;

a house that was born bad.

[Skittles]

62. AWESOME movie

no gore or special effects yet creepy as hell :o

[kentauros]

63. Yeah, it is, isn't it?

I burned a copy from TCM a few years ago and bring it out every year or so. That "breathing" door in the study and the banging noise was pretty scary too. That and how Markway's wife got "stuck" in the other parts of the house because it kept closing doors on her like it was steering her away from everyone :o

I believe Dr. Markway said that there were no right-angles anywhere in the house. Makes you wonder what the feng shui was like

[NoPasaran]

55. Monticello

I've been to plenty of palaces, and that;s what they are: palaces, something way beyond human scale.

Monticello is gorgeous, without being overwhelming. It expresses the many interests of its builder and it fits into its environment perfectly. To sit at the back of the house in the evening overlooking the gardens after a meal, conversing with Jefferson must have been bliss. Especially if sharing a gigantic doobie rolled from TJ's own crop.

[Withywindle]

60. The House of Seven Gables, Salem, MA

t'hell with 'The Scarlet Letter,' that book is Hawthorne's best. And it's a real place.

[Heidi]

64. Other: Hundertwasserhaus (Vienna)

About Hundertwasserhaus, Wien

Exterior



Interior



Interior

[Tuesday Afternoon]

65. no fear of color, there

:D :hi:

[MorningGlow]

67. Other: George Harrison's Friar Park

Built by the eccentric Sir Frank Crisp, then owned by nuns (who covered up the statues' naughty bits), then purchased by George. Went to Henley-on-Thames years ago but didn't have the guts to march up to the gates; I regret it now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friar_Park

[NOW tense]

68. Renée del Gaudio’s Elk House

http://www.rdg-architecture.com/elk-house