Fort Bragg, California (via Glass Beach | Colossal)
This is really awful. California library to stop carrying books.
“So Newport Beach is weighing a Netflix-like system in which readers could order books and then pick them up from lockers at an ‘electronic library,’ a 2,200-square-foot room with a central fireplace and a kiosk where patrons could select titles online.”
![Wright matters:
Dramatic, historic and prices slashed, yet no buyers are biting - chicagotribune.com
In Los Angeles, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House and La Miniatura remain on the market, despite significant price reductions/buyer incentives. Begs the architectural stewardship question: Who is willing and able to take care of these historic homes?
[hat tip to @ChiArchitecture]
Related: June 2009 post.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7zp7ktKr71qzgg3to1_500.jpg)
Wright matters:
Dramatic, historic and prices slashed, yet no buyers are biting - chicagotribune.com
In Los Angeles, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House and La Miniatura remain on the market, despite significant price reductions/buyer incentives. Begs the architectural stewardship question: Who is willing and able to take care of these historic homes?
[hat tip to @ChiArchitecture]
Related: June 2009 post.
Architecture matters:
Via geebirdandbamby:
Trailer for “Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs” (2010)
Adding the film to my must-see (eventually) list.
More Wright stuff:
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House, a Los Feliz hilltop masterpiece composed of patterned and smooth concrete blocks that has been mightily threatened by man and Mother Nature, is being offered for sale at $15 million by the private foundation that has been restoring it.
LATimes story: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ennis-house19-2009jun19,0,5217667.story
Wright stuff:
I want: Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1955 Fawcett Ranch House in California. It *is* for sale.
The property’s sales site is worth a look, especially the slide shows: http://www.fawcetthouse.com/
