Before & After
 

Before

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After

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text & many more pics:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/garden/19rock.html?hpw

Interesting. I wonder how they sealed up the wall with the rock in it.

Wish i had a really big rock in my livingroom........NOT!

Now that is COOLISTIC!!!! Story behind this???

Is it a meteor?

I'll bet that's a beyotch to dust.

Needs some moss & spiders to liven it up.

Ian

I'll bet the owner stubs his toe on it at least once a week...

I'll bet the chipmunks living under that rock are pissed!

Who are you? Aren't you one of those guys that likes to preserve nature, lessen green house gasses, and favors the "quit screwing with the environment" movement? Then you post something like this???:confused:

Naturally, I can only gather that you like this or you would have posted your normal "environmental" slant. Jebus man, how can a "green" ideology support this kind of monstrosity?

:D

Wow! Part like it and part "how in the world would you clean it" but sure is interesting!

The "rest of the story" so to speak...

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After seeing the rest, love the house! Its on 80 acres...

So...he's got 80 ACRES and can't find a clear spot to build?!?

do you not like it or what?

Very Nice!! It looks a bit like Frank LLoyd Wrights' "Fallingwater" in PA without the water.

Best,
Tom

Being rich has its own rewards, you wanna blow it on a house with a big glacial erratic in the middle, you can. Those rocks are very common throughout the Catskills and the Adirondacks, but that's the first one I have seen in a house. Very cool, imho.

I'd live there.... Sorta reminds me of the house in Twilight and the house that "Shark" lived in.

It looks nothing like FLW's Falling water. have you ever been there? This just looks like a mid century modern house with a rock in it by comparison. FLW just rolled over in his grave because of your remark.

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you aren't showing any of the waterfalls INSIDE the house!

Targa 911S: Let me rephrase my remark. It reminds me of Fallingwater, because of the rock in the living room.

I didn't mean to upset you so badly. Sorry. ( and no offense to FLW, either).

Best,
Tom

Like being between a rock and a hard place.....

You are not allowed to take pictures inside the house, so I don't have any. It IS fabulous though.

Dang this thread sure turned into a bunch of Wheaties and piss.

I think it's pretty neat.

actually, that was a joke about the horrible leaky roof the owners had to endure

My we are sensitive tonight. It is a very cool place. However it is NOT Falling Water. Relax.

Yeah I GOT it. I thought this place was the "house of mold" but THAT place the battle is constant.

I wonder how they dust under it?

Roomba.

The architect seems to be a Porsche guy.

Photo from his (Bernard Tschumi) apartment:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/magazine/08wwln-domains-t.html
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...ains.5-190.jpg

I dont get it but to each their own.

Please try reading the article or at least the captions before typing.

Building Around the Rock - The New York Times > Home & Garden > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 9
12 photos of something more "Green" for you all, cool in a different way.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/11/04/garden/20091105-tree-slideshow_index.html

That house rocks! Sorry, couldn't resist.


Throughout my life I have dreamed of many things. But never have I thought, "it would be cool to have a house with a big rock in the living room".

I get the funny comments and jokes, and admit the house is not all that much to my liking. And the rock in the house is not such a original idea, seen samples published several times over the years.

It's a house.

Pet rock?

I like it but my kids would probably try to paint it orange and put a face on it at halloween.

This!

In other words, that rock is a phallus.

Looks like some gang got to it:

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/m...ns/bigrock.jpg

??

better than being between iraq and iran...

Tom,
that was my first thought.
can you say that here?