{"id":2594,"date":"2018-05-19T15:51:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T15:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2018-05-19T15:51:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T15:51:30","slug":"the-house-above-the-morning-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2018\/05\/the-house-above-the-morning-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"The House Above the Morning Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting story… So this house was designed and built by John Lautner’s associate, Helena Arahuete. She really is carrying his flame and that\u2019s so dope.<\/p>\n

Outstanding design. Bottomless budget. The house in itself is definitely reminiscent of Lautner’s heavy use of strong angles and floating volumes.<\/p>\n

\"GlassHouse\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Look at this shiiiit<\/p>\n

\"Glass<\/a><\/p>\n

Yes, I see myself doing very important things at that desk like crossing my arms, looking outside.<\/p>\n

\"Glass<\/a><\/p>\n

Now the client was this dude, John Roscoe. His business? Cigarettes. Yup. He built a business around selling cigarettes cheaper back in the 70s\/80s I guess. He had 800 stores and a revenue of $1B at some point. Not too shabby.<\/p>\n

The 3-bedroom house cost $17M. 1,700 acres (687 hectares!!), for two old people. The motherfucking insanity. But there’s more.<\/p>\n

Broke after his business went down, even more broke after being convicted for tax fraud, he tried to sell the glass house for $19M after barely living a few years in it. He sold it for $3.5M to a Texan couple who are using it as a vacation home. What the actual fuck.<\/p>\n

\"Glass<\/a><\/p>\n

And then it burned down last winter in the Atlas fire. Lol<\/p>\n

But that couple \u2013probably billionaires- are going to build it back, as it was or bigger, probably. <\/p>\n

I don’t know what the conclusions are here: some people have so much money, it’s really insane. Being able to buy so much space on top of a mountain in the Bay just like that, to only use sometime. And not even bothering about anything, just rebuild the whole thing. Dat privilege.<\/p>\n

The weirdness for Helena to build the dream house of someone who’s been selling a very addicting drug that slowly kills people.<\/p>\n

The douchebaggery of not considering for a second to integrate the house more with the terrain, you know, to show some humility to humans around and respect to the surrounding nature. <\/p>\n

The fact that the sale was a STEAL (80% off!!). The fact that a massive wealth made from cigarettes ends up burning to the ground on a hill.<\/p>\n

Don’t build on top of a hill. Don’t sell bad habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting story… So this house was designed and built by John Lautner’s associate, Helena Arahuete. She really is carrying his flame and that\u2019s so dope. Outstanding design. Bottomless budget. The house in itself is definitely reminiscent of Lautner’s heavy use of strong angles and floating volumes. Look at this shiiiit Yes, I see myself doing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}