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#10       Richard Meier’s Douglas House joins America’s historic places list,More info:dezeen

These new photographs show American architect Richard Meier’s Douglas House perched above Lake Michigan, which has been added to the USA’s National Register of Historic Places (+ slideshow).

The designation by the National Park Service recognises the house’s historical and architectural significance, joining a list of monuments deemed worthy of preservation.

Completed in 1973, the home was commissioned by the Douglases after they contacted Meier to buy the blueprints for his earlier Smith House in Connecticut.

“I replied that while I was not prepared to sell the drawings I would certainly be willing to design a new house for them along similar lines,” said the architect.

#9        Richard Meier’s Douglas House Added to National Register of Historic Places,More info:archdaily

Today, one of Richard Meier’s most notable and acclaimed residences, the 1973 Douglas House, has been named to the National Register of Historic Places, the federal list of cultural resources worthy of preservation across the United States. The announcement comes after an extensive renovation to the property was completed in 2011, and will grant the home the legal status to help ensure the building is maintained for generations to come.

 

#8       Douglas House,More info:architectuul

Hovering over the shores of Lake Michigan, the Douglas House was built by Richard Meier in 1971-1973 for Jim and Jean Douglas. The house is gently placed on a steep slope over the water, almost as if it is floating amongst the trees. As Meier stated about the house, “So steep is the slope to the water that the house appears to have been dropped into the site, a machine-crafted object that has landed in a natural world. The dramatic dialogue between the whiteness of the house and the primary blues and greens of the water, trees, and sky allows the house not only to assert its own presence but to enhance, by contrast, the beauty of its natural environment as well.”

Due to its location, Meier layered four floors and anchored the house into the hill. The entry is on the east side of the house facing the road, which Meier considers the “private” zone and is expanded by a roof-level bridge. Once inside the entry vestibule there is a continuation to a roof-deck, and the living room and kitchen are seen two stories below with the fire place in view across from the entry, typical in homes designed by Meier.

 

#7          Douglas House,More info:richardmeier

The Douglas House is dramatically situated on an isolated site that slopes down to Lake Michigan. So steep is the fall of the land from the road down to the water that the house appears to have been notched into the site, a machined object perched in a natural world. The entry to the house extends beyond the building envelope. Here, as the sharp downhill grade of the land requires the house to be entered at roof level, it takes the form of a flying bridge that seems to shear off the top of the frontal plane.

The east side, facing the road, is the private zone, protected by a taut white membrane pierced by square apertures and horizontal strip windows. The roof-level bridge accentuates the unimpeded flow of space between this wall and the hillside, and is experienced as an activated void that further seals the private zone from the road.

#6         George B. Douglas House,More info:wikipedia

 

#5         Amica at Douglas House,More info:pearlschoice

 

#4      Douglas House,More info:thedouglashouse

 

#3        Douglas House,More info:booking

 

#2         Historic home doubles as a money-making set for TV shows,More info:inman

You’ve seen Marjorie Douglas’s home but you just didn’t know it.

Her pristine, three-story 1756 Dutch Colonial in Rockland County, New York, where she lives and runs a production studio, has hosted over 1,800 shoots for various commercials, a few lesser-known movies, and an array of popular TV shows, including Saturday Night Live’s “Schmitt’s Gay Beer” skit, Showtime’s The Affair, Law & Order: SVU, and a number of commercials for household brands like Black and Decker, Butterball and Fisher-Price.

 

#1       DOUGLAS HOUSE BED & BREAKFAST,More info:laketolake

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