“At the same time as architectural homes are being marketed as high-end, collectible art, others are being torn down to build new,” Adriene Biondo wrote. “Perhaps a historic-cultural monument designation could have saved the Zimmerman house, or allowed the necessary time to delay demolition. Tragically, calls for preservation fell on deaf ears.”
People Hate Chris Pratt Again
Pratt and his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, recently razed a historical home to build a 15,000-sq-ft mansion.
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Last year, Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger purchased what architectural aficionados lauded as a midcentury modern masterpiece with all the trimmings by a “pioneer of modern landscaping.” Soon, however, it’ll become a regular Ronald McMansion farmhouse à la the Valley Village dwellings once shared by two Vanderpump Rules couples that are no longer. That’s right. As if we weren’t already keenly aware: this Bible-thumping couple is basic as hell.
Earlier this month, Robb Report reported that Pratt and Schwarzenegger splashed out a whopping $12.5 million in an off-market sale for a midcentury house in Brentwood, California. The home was designed by the late, great modernist architect Craig Ellwood (reportedly one of his earliest projects, mind you) and featured landscaping designed by another since-deceased legend, Garrett Eckbo. The home stood on that very lot since 1950 and was an important work of architectural history in a city where too much of that has been razed for something shiny and new—probably with Chip and Joanna Gaines’ shiplap.