The Aluminaire House, a 1,200-square-foot structure billed as the first all-metal home built in the United States, has been called one of “the pivotal works of modern architecture in America” by respected critic Paul Goldberger.
The 1931 masterpiece was even highlighted in a MoMA exhibit on modern architecture.
It also may be the most hated house in New York.
After rankling a Queens historic district, the aluminum building has languished inside a storage facility since 2012. Before that, it had been subjected to vandals on Long Island.
And so, on Wednesday, the house’s disassembled panels, pipes and beams began a 2,800-mile trek from Ronkonkoma to Palm Springs, Calif., inside a 45-foot-long trailer at a cost of $15,000.
The desert resort city, some 100 miles from downtown Los Angeles and celebrated for its stock of modern properties, will become its new permanent home. The city plans to reassemble it in a planned park and open it to the public in 2018.
8 comments:
Recycle this mistake and repurpose the structure into something truly useful, such as beer cans...
Palm Springs? The desert, where the temp reaches 120+ in the summer? I wouldn't be wanting to be near all that aluminum! Good luck.
Mayor Fugazio could have housed 50 illegal families in that structure!
Better looking than most Queens crap!
That's right....anything that brings Queens any notoriety must be shipped away.
WTF does Queens have to offer except some of the slimiest crooked politicians in NYC?
Knock it down.... - alfster
This is a modern design, not crap or mcmansion. 1 family, with garage, and patio, likely a 3 bedroom home. This is what nyc needs .
Create a community, with this design, but different materials. Steel beam and concrete blocks and panels. place this home on a 20x100 lot. Sign me up!
Im sure most are tired of the fedders 3 family homes, and whatever weird designs are out their.
They glorify crap like this and let St. Saviours decay. Bastards
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