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First floor plan (north is on the left) Lovell Beach House December 2013 The Lovell Beach House is located on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California.The building was completed in 1926 and is now recognized as one of the most important works by architect Rudolf Schindler, second only to the Schindler House, built four years earlier for his family as a show house and studio.
After her death, her heirs announced plans to build a $10–12 million "deluxe Waikiki-type beach resort" on the 13-acre (53,000 m 2) site, while preserving the house as an art and history museum. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The State of California, however, filed an eminent domain lawsuit in 1966, [ 16 ] seeking to raze the house and turn it into beach parking.
A beach house is a house on or near a beach, sometimes used as a vacation or second home for people who commute to the house on weekends or during vacation periods. Beach houses are often designed to weather the type of climate they are built in and the building materials and construction methods used in beach housing vary widely around the ...
Beach Road 2 [1] is a two-story Atlantic beach house built between 2004 and 2005 on the foundation of a previous house in the North Beach Road area of Jupiter Island, Florida. Designed in the modernistic style by Hobe Sound architect Scott Hughes of Hughes Umbanhowar and built by Benchmark Homes, it features an exterior of glass, wood, stucco ...
Grand Designs Australia is an Australian observational series on The LifeStyle Channel. The series, which is a local adaptation of the British series of the same name, sees original host, Peter Maddison, and current host, Anthony Burke, chronicle the construction of grand and unusual houses. Series overview Season Episodes Originally aired Network First aired Last aired 1 9 21 October 2010 ...
The house, influenced by Japanese architecture, is made of translucent and transparent panels organized in simple volumes, often using natural materials, supported on a steel framework. The frame of the house was assembled in sixteen hours by five workmen. He brightened up his buildings with panels of pure colors. [66]
The house was divided into three sections: living spaces, service rooms, and bedrooms. The 39-by-18-foot (11.9 by 5.5 m) living room had a balcony overlooking the Pacific Ocean to the west. The bedroom section had three bedrooms, a balcony for sleeping, two-and-a-half bathrooms, and two servants' rooms. [323]
The second floor Center Hall of the White House in 2001. Floor plan of the White House second floor showing location of the Center Hall. The Center Hall is a broad central hallway on the second floor of the White House, home of the president of the United States. It runs east to west connecting the East Sitting Hall with the West Sitting Hall.