Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger slammed for demolishing historic California home

Senseless Pratts.

"farmhouse-style mansion" Enough said.

He looks like he smells of stale sweat. I wonder if Maria is embarrassed?

Chris Pratt could cure cancer and I would still hate him.

The home was not architecturally interesting, significant, or open to the public. Why should it have been preserved?

Preservationists shared beautiful photographs of the home filled with midcentury modern furniture in the sixties.

You know what was beautiful?

THE FURNITURE. That’s long gone. The building was not beautiful. It could have easily been a national park restroom.

R5 Thanks for adding perspective.

Meanwhile

What did they do to the Armand Hammer building, an actual Midcentury Modern gem that was open to the public, was visible from a major thoroughfare, Wilshire Boulevard, and was from an architect with a significant connection to Los Angeles, William Pereira?

KNOCK IT DOWN!

Nothing like being born into the Kennedy family and then having Schwarzenegger money and then marrying a rich actor. No wonder Katherine is smug.

fail, op. someone already tried this outrage clickbait. nobody cares

And do you know what they replaced it with? A building that could have easily been a rest stop over a major highway!

At best, the new LACMA recalls an extremely conservative effort to evoke the dynamism of googie architecture gems like the Beverly Hills gas station or the KAX theme building. Minus the sweeping curves or originality. Do you know what it was supposed to recall.

A TAR PIT. Possibly the most magnificent postmodern statement on Los Angeles and the futility of art and preservation.

But it was black and people didn’t like that, so now it’s white and has no visual anchor.

Instead, do you know what Los Angeles is getting for an art museum?

AN ILLINOIS TOLLWAY OASIS.

Forget it Jake. It's Chinatown.

So please, save your crocodile tears for a structure that doesn’t look like a small suburban bank branch. This was a fucking ugly building and anyone here who had the resources to replace it would have made the exact same decision.

R14

Wrong quote

Noah Cross : Of course I'm respectable. I'm old! Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

It's his money, they can do whatever they want with it.

Good one r16

They're like Pia Zadora and Meshulam Riklis of the 21st century.

People are outraged because mid century modern is back in style at the moment. If this were 2010, nobody would care.

I don’t blame them for tearing it down, I blame them for wanting a “modern farmhouse.”

R3 Maria lives across the street... she is completely on board.

Do they double date with Harry and Megs?

Mid century modern FURNITURE is big at the moment. That’s why the dishonest preservationists shared photos of the house with period furnishings.

Very few people like mid century modern buildings. How many of you go to New York and take pictures of the Metlife Building or the Seagrams Building?

Who goes to San Francisco to see Embarcadero Crnter?

[quote]People are outraged because mid century modern is back in style at the moment. If this were 2010, nobody would care.

It was back in style around 2006. Maybe not wherever you're from.

Mid century modern became fashionable again due to Mad Men which premiered in 2007. And that show became mainstream only after the second season. Mad Men was seen as aspirational and its storytelling was achieved through heavy use of midcentury modern furniture which combined both nostalgia with elegant, minimalist design which translated well to contemporary tastes.

If the property was THAT significant it would already enjoy protected status. It doesn't.

Knock that sucker down Chris.

He was hot for a brief period, but he's gone back into the 'not hot' territory. Therefore, I'm failing to muster the energy to care about this.

that historic California home looked like a drug dealer's house in any piece of shit drug California drug movie that that whole piece of shit drugged-out town makes.

[quote]The home was not architecturally interesting, significant, or open to the public. Why should it have been preserved?

[quote]Preservationists shared beautiful photographs of the home filled with midcentury modern furniture in the sixties.

[quote]You know what was beautiful?

[quote]THE FURNITURE. That’s long gone. The building was not beautiful. It could have easily been a national park restroom.

R5 is right on this. It doesnt appear to have had any preservation order on it... for good reason. Personally I find the furniture ugly too, but thats a matter of personal taste

[quote]So please, save your crocodile tears for a structure that doesn’t look like a small suburban bank branch. This was a fucking ugly building and anyone here who had the resources to replace it would have made the exact same decision.

Agree with R15 too, although I think it looks more like a national park restroom than a suburban bank branch myself

If this house was actually significant somebody should have ensured it got a historic preservation order

The 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 question has gone unasked......

In Newsomeland will even Chris be able to insure his freshly built home ?

Thousands more Californians will lose their home insurance this summer as two more insurers withdraw from the state.

In filings with the California Department of Insurance, Tokio Marine America Insurance Co. and Trans Pacific Insurance Co. said they would both withdraw from the homeowners and personal umbrella insurance markets in California. Both are subsidiaries of Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., a Japanese company.

Tokio Marine America and Trans Pacific join a roster of insurers big and small that have limited or stopped doing business in California, often citing the risk of wildfires. Some, such as Allstate and State Farm, have stopped writing new policies in the state even as they continue to renew policies — though last month, State Farm announced it would not renew 30,000 homeowner policies. Farmers Direct Insurance has chosen to leave the state.

Death to all modern farmhouses.

The preservationist bitches can get nasty when crossed.

Even flyovers are moving on from modern farmhouse. It's played out.

Never question the prerogatives of the rich.

Ungars litter Brentwood and the Palisades. Snoozefests, to a one.

I like the Seagrams Building, R24, but I see your point.

You call it Newsomeland as if it's his fault, r31. Incredibly stupid name for California, by the way.

R31 If you’re going to mock someone, at least learn to spell his name.

NEWSOM.