Tasteful Friends: Would you like a modern update of Falling Water?

A lot of sharp angles in unforgiving materials.

Originally put on market for $25 million.

It's giving mall food court.

I do love the landscaping though.

It would make a wonderful public building. A library. Too much EVERYTHING for a house. I couldn't relax there.

This is what they do with all of the surplus value?

It's giving sad faux everything.

Great idea r3. Community center with pool and tennis courts, library…too bad it’s in a gated community that he built.

Don't gated communities have community centers? We don't have many in Canada but I've visited relatives in Florida, in gated communities, and they seemed to be built around a golf course and traditional country club or a community center for seniors who play Bridge.

But all those stairs ... disqualifies it as a public building I guess.

If you had that kind of money…Danville?

Gorgeous setting, but the house itself is too too much.

Is it a moldy leaking pile like the original?

Conference center vibes.

Perhaps it’s the furnishings and “art.”

I like the style; but not the animals. Danville is one of the best cities to live in CA.

The Seahawks former owner (Ken Behring) developed this area (Blackhawk.) It's VERY upscale.

If I had that kind of money, I'd build one of FLW"s creations that hasnt been built. . I'd make sure it was compliant with any modern code concerns, of course. I would not just do a shitty mimic of an existing building. That's lame.

It looks like the casino in Santa Fe.

The landscaping is lovely and the site itself is beautiful.

The house seems like a Southwest theme restaurant where the waiters are forced to line dance every two hours.

WTF with the chandeliers in the garage or whatever the hell that room is.

It’s lovely.

I'd love it at one-quarter that size. As it is now it's grotesque.

I kind of liked the sudden 180 from faux Falling Water to faux Vegas car show.

I hate every chair in that house.

I prefer an imitation White House.

When I was a young little stockbroker in Walnut Creek back in the day we were all told not to prospect any Blackhawk people, because they were all style and no substance. I’d end up with sweet grandmas bringing in $800,000 in bonds in a paper bag, living in a 2/1 in Hayward.

It's both very masculine and super queeny. Like a really straight whose brick house body is entirely shaved and moisturised.

It would make a fabulous Japanese/steakhouse hybrid restaurant/social club, with a nightclub. The landscaping is LAUGHABLY dramatic and poodle like.

I like it.

I could do without the black mirror ceiling in the bedroom

Placing chairs with rollers on flagstone is one of the old ways of getting rid of relatives who overstay their welcome.

The viewing area for the primary bed is skeevy.

The action figures disguised as art pair well with the matchbox car collection in the ballroom.

On first sight I thought I'd absolutely loathe this, but having looked at all the pics it has grown on me, I actually quite like it, even though it is not my preferred style at all. It has a warmth about it I wasnt expecting and that is what redeems it. And the landscaping is stunning too. It is far too big for my liking, but it doesnt look it, most of the rooms are individually at a nice scale, not vast sterile echoey chambers like some modern houses. Parts of it actually look cosy, which is an admirable achievement in a modern house - it manages to be modern without the sterile, cold look most minimalist places have.

And if it doesnt leak everywhere like the original Falling Water then thats another plus

[quote]I do love the landscaping though

Far too manicured for my taste.

Beautiful, kind of horrifying, comfortable and uncomfortable at the same time. Does this make sense?

The whole point of Falling Water is that it's built over a stream and shrouded by trees. It's stupid to build a vaguely mid-century compound on some barren, godforsaken hills and then try to claim a connection to Falling Water. That's like saying my split-level is inspired by the Farnsworth House because they both have windows and are rectangular.

I do like the indoor fountain

Some studio or production company should buy this and use it for a location. Maybe for one of the 17 series Nicole Kidman does every year.

Consuela says “I don’t do windows or glass bannisters”

[quote]Former Seahawks owner tried to replicate Falling Water...

But succeeded only in creating a nice enough luxury car sales room.

I think properly furnished and with some of the more garish elements removed, it could be a pleasant house. I like the stone and the wood and the sense of seclusion, but it will be hard to avoid the hotel/conference center vibes

There’s no excuse for the ballroom/garage. Tear it down and salt the earth.

I think it's fucking stunning.

It is what Edna Everage might refer to as "very much an artist's impression of Fallingwater". The only thing that's the same is the style of walls and the flagstones on the floor. It doesn't even have the glass-to-glass corner windows that Wright pioneered at FW (and which with modern engineering don't leak like his did).

Fallingwater's bedrooms and bathrooms (the latter lined with cork) are far humbler than any of these and it has no staircases--just utilitarian steps, mostly with no balustrade. The touches that make the big open-plan living-dining-study room most amazing at Fallingwater are entirely absent. I'm not even counting the missing waterfall. So yeah, like someone said, this is Vegas with Fallingwater's wall and floor materials.

This one has commanding views, but Wright wouldn't have liked that. He wanted his houses nestling into their environments, not commanding them.

It’s really quite a beautiful house, done with exquisite taste, but the exquisiteness is a bit too much. Go along with the consensus that it somehow looks institutional and rather cold despite the warm-colored, perfect finishes of wood, stome and glass.

It should be an upscale sanitarium, like the weirdly modern hospital in “Magnificent Obsession,” which looks like. Frank Lloud Wright hospital in Lake Tahoe.

I toured Falling Water in Pennsylvania last week, trust me there is no architectural similarity between these two homes.

Also, I would be very wary of working with a realtor with the first name of "JouJou". Sounds like a former HSN host .

High end office/restaurant furniture everywhere?? The chandeliers in the classic car garage? At least the HOA fees are responsible.

I'll take it! But - 14 bathrooms??

Blackhawk is on the hotter side of the valley. West of 680 is better.