Desert home named world's ugliest

[Lloyd Bonafide]

http://appraisersforum.com/showthread.php?p=1366092


The aforementioned house in Palm Desert, CA has been named the ugilest house in the world:

http://www.propertyinvestmentproject.co.uk/blog/2007/12/14/the-ugliest-house-in-the-world/


Plans and pictures - courtesy of someone who is working on the house:

http://rustynail3.com/crazyroof/


But the owner is not going to stop there - he's planning on building a 22,000 "tree house" on Couer D'Alene Lake, Idaho:

http://spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=14795

Hagadone building lavish "tree house"

It’s not the largest house in Kootenai County but the new Hagadone home being built at Lake Coeur d’Alene’s Casco Bay is perhaps the only tree house. The home’s living quarters are elevated on stone pillars, allowing a creek to run underneath through the property’s lavish flower gardens.

The two-bedroom, 22,040-square-foot home is under construction on Duane and Lola Hagadone’s longtime Casco Bay property. The site is visible from downtown Coeur d’Alene and the Coeur d’Alene Resort, which is also owned by the native businessman.

Yet blueprints Hagadone submitted to Kootenai County as part of the building permit application provide basic details about the home, which is often referred to as the “tree house” because it is elevated on stilts and sits among the tall pines on the waterfront property.

From the plans, it appears that part of the home is 54 feet tall, the equivalent of about five stories.

This isn’t Hagadone’s largest home project. That honor is reserved for his 44,870-square-foot mansion in Palm Desert, Calif., on a ridge of the Santa Rosa Mountains near the 18th hole of the Bighorn Golf Course.

In 2004, Palm Desert granted Hagadone an exemption from an ordinance that caps hillside homes at 4,000 square feet and approved his 32,016-square-foot home plan — eight times the normally allowed size. But then officials discovered the size was understated by nearly 13,000 square feet, a mistake that Hagadone representatives blamed on the initial engineer.

The $30 million-plus home with five wings infuriates many desert neighbors who, according to a 2007 article in the Los Angeles Times, dubbed it “the flying saucer” and “Neverland Ranch” and say that the windows send off a blinding glare.

 

[Workbox]

It's hard to say that it is organic, but they sure did try their best. I kinda like it, and understand how certain architecture evokes emotion and thought, a skill that is being lost. Don't be surprised if starts becoming part of movie sets or other type of media entertainment. But What I really want to know,................. Does that thing come with a Starbucks?

 

[The Dog]

I think it is kind of neat. I like the way they tried to blend it in with the surrounding area. And as an appraiser I am certainly glad I don't have to measure this thing.