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A Glen Park home recently received an award for being so stunning, as well as its own article in the Wall Street Journal. The American Institute of Architects Housing Award, which is handed out annual to outstanding residential designs, bestowed local architect James Zack and Lisa de Vito with one of this year's big prize. The house, located on Laidley Street, was described by WSJ as such: "From the street, its four light-gray cubes, neon-green door and huge, perfectly square front window all look as if they could have been assembled from massive pieces of Lego. Inside, a three-story translucent staircase made of acrylic filters sun from the skylight up top to the basement below ground. Virtually every room of the 3,000-square-foot home has large windows displaying views of the city so vast they're sometimes harrowing." Gorgeous.
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Interesting...acrylate-based polymers ("acrylics") are usually poor choices for a structure that will get a decent about of sun, since they tend to degrade in UV-light. What other questionable choices were made in the construction of this building?
Science gave us acrylics. Science also gave us UV filters for windows. Presumably the architect who built this house for himself knew about both innovations.
And the article says construction costs "were kept under $500 per square foot, moderate for San Francisco."
Beautiful from the inside and yet the home is butt ugly from the outside. Whatever happened to designing homes in ornate edwardian style? Why all the boxiness?
...because we don't live in the early 1900's and this is not Great Britain.
What do you have against boxes?