Latest news with #FrankLloydWright
Yahoo
19 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Wayfarers Chapel to rebuild at new location in Rancho Palos Verdes
The Brief Wayfarers Chapel plans to be built at a new location just one mile west. The new location will sit on the Battery Barnes military site. The chapel closed in February 2024 due to accelerated land movement. LOS ANGELES - LA's iconic Wayfarers Chapel, located in Rancho Palos Verdes, might be rebuilt at a completely new location. The backstory The chapel closed in February 2024 due to 'accelerated land movement.' Large cracks were present on the foundation throughout the chapel, making it unstable. The74-year-old chapel wascompletely disassembled by July 2024. What we know As they look forward to rebuilding, organizers said the existing location is no longer ideal. According to Wayfarers Chapel's website, they plan to rebuild the new chapel only one mile west of the current location. The new location will sit on the Battery Barnes military site. On their website, they released four artistic renderings that show the chapel on the new Battery Barnes site, on the Alta Vicente hilltop above Point Vicente Lighthouse and the Golden Cove shopping center. What they're saying "With the original Chapel carefully disassembled and stored, we are now ready to rebuild the Chapel as soon as we can secure the prospective new site and raise rebuilding funds. Following the closure of the chapel in February 2024 and with disassembly completed in July 2024, we have determined that rebuilding on the previous (heritage) site is not possible for the future of Wayfarers Chapel. The new proposed location sits adjacent to Rancho Palos Verdes City Hall on the Battery Barnes military site," their website read. It's unclear when construction will start or when the new chapel will reopen. The Instagramable glass chapel is a popular wedding venue in LA. The 100-seat, glass chapel opened in 1951 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2023. The famed Mid-century Modern structure with glass walls was designed by Lloyd Wright, the son of Frank Lloyd Wright. The Source Information for this story came from the Wayfarers Chapel website.
Yahoo
a day ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Wayfarers Chapel may have new home at unused military site
Southern California's iconic glass chapel may have found a new home in Rancho Palos Verdes. The famed Wayfarers Chapel was closed indefinitely last year due to unprecedented shifting of the ground below it. The church's leadership team made the decision to disassemble the beloved California landmark and wedding venue and reassemble it in another location. This week, church officials announced that they may have found the chapel's new grounds. According to the church's website, a new proposed location has been identified at Battery Barnes, a former munitions storage facility for the U.S. Coast Guard, adjacent to Rancho Palos Verdes City Hall. The four-acre property overlooking the Pacific Ocean was utilized during World War II and remains under Coast Guard jurisdiction. But city officials say the property has been unused for several years and the only structure on the land is vacant. The glass chapel, which was designated a Historic National Landmark in 2023, could be rebuilt on the hilltop above Point Vicente Lighthouse, a still active navigational landmark that is also the property of the Coast Guard. While the site has been tabbed as the future home to Wayfarers Chapel, and renderings have been made to show what the new campus may look like, church officials still need to procure the space and raise enough funds to reassemble the church and rebuild the surrounding infrastructure. The popular wedding chapel, which was designed by famed architect Lloyd Wright (son of Frank Lloyd Wright) in the 1940s, previously stood among a crowd of trees that overlooked Abalone Cove, an area of the California coast that has experienced an ongoing, slow-moving 'geologic hazard.' Its campus in Rancho Palos Verdes had survived landslides and erosion for years, but those conditions have worsened since 2024, with homes swallowed by shifting hillsides and once-straight roads turned into winding, sloping slaloms. The chapel has hosted thousands of weddings, including celebrity nuptials, since it opened in 1951. It was closed to the public in February 2024, in hopes that the shifting of land would eventually slow down. But the ground continued to move as much as seven inches per week, officials said at the time. The chapel was fully disassembled in July 2024, and carefully placed into dedicated storage space. Dan Burchett, the chapel's executive director, said last year that rebuild efforts could cost as much as $20 million. It's unclear if those estimates have changed in 2025. If the church is able to secure the site and rebuild at the old military property, the new campus would feature a museum, a visitor's center and 'tranquil gardens,' the church website says. If leaders secure the money, the site will be rebuilt with a visitor's center, a museum, a cafe and gardens, according to the website, and guests will be treated to the same sweeping ocean views. For additional information about the proposed site, click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CBS News
3 days ago
- Business
- CBS News
Frank Lloyd Wright's Elizabeth and Rollin Furbeck House in Oak Park hits the market for $1.9M
Have you ever visited a Frank Lloyd Wright home and wondered what it's like to live in one? Now, you can own one, but it comes with a hefty price tag. The Elizabeth and Rollin Furbeck House at 515 Fair Oaks Ave. in Oak Park has hit the market. Elizabeth and Rollin Furbeck House at 515 Fair Oaks Ave. in Oak Park. According to the realtor site Redfin, the 1897 home is one of Wright's earliest and most innovative residential works. The 5000-square-foot, three-story single-family home has five bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms, and a five-car garage, the website said. Other amenities include a mezzanine reading nook that overlooks the main room, a heated pool, and a recreation room that can be used for movie nights, play space, or casual lounging. The home has been on the market for two weeks, according to the website. The cost to own the home will run the potential buyer $1,975,000.
Hypebeast
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hypebeast
Diller Scofidio + Renfro Just Unveiled London's Most Exciting New Museum
TheV&A Museumhas unveiled its long-awaited Storehouse outpost in East London, which features a design by architecture firmDiller Scofidio + Renfrothat puts the museum's vast collection of objects on display. Officially opening to the public on Saturday, May 31, V&A East Storehouse spans four levels and is the size of more than 30 basketball courts. The space was once a broadcast centre for the London Olympics in 2012, but has since been reworked by Diller Scofidio + Renfro to house the 250,000 objects, 350,000 books, and 1,000 Archives. 'Instead of the hard distinctions between storage and display, conservation and curation, back-of-house and front-of-house, V&A East Storehouse creates a new mixture,' said David Allin, Principal at Diller Scofidio + Renfro. 'To realize the project, everyone had to step out of their comfort zone: curators became storage experts, technical services staff acted as exhibition designers, and we, as architects, learned to be collection managers.' While visitors typically access the museum's collection through curated exhibitions, the Storehouse allows them to have a peek backstage. Visitors enter the building and arrive into a vast atrium, where a cafe from London favorite E5 Bakehouse and workshop spaces are located. Although partially visible from the ground level, the actual store (technically named the Weston Collections Hall) is set up a short flight of stairs and behind thick metal doors. The space is organised around a central atrium, which is illuminated by a huge row of lighting panels suspended from the ceiling. Six large-scale objects, which have been tucked away for decades because of their size and complexity, are now on view and are used to anchor the collection space. These include the 1930s Kaufmann Office, the only complete Frank Lloyd Wright interior outside of the US, an architectural section from Robin Hood Gardens, a former residential estate in Poplar, east London, and the largest Picasso work in the world, which stands over 10 metres high and 11 metres wide. These are, of course, a drop in the ocean in terms of what is located in the store, which visitors are invited to walk around freely, rather than have to follow a strict guided tour. They are also able to book out the objects they'd like to view via an online system, 'Order an Object'. (According to the museum, the most popular item ordered so far is a 1954 evening dress by Cristóbal Balenciaga). A real draw of a visit to the Storehouse, though, comes in the form that it isactuallya working space. Inside, staff work at four new multi-purpose conservation studios, with a glass overlook allowing visitors a peek into what's happening. 'It has been a joy to work with the V&A's curators and conservators in creating this new kind of institution: neither warehouse nor museum, but rather a hybrid shared by staff and the public with expanded opportunities for access and exchange,' said Elizabeth Diller, Founding Partner, Diller Scofidio + Renfro. TheV&A EastStorehouse opens to the public this weekend, with the V&A East Museum opening in 2026.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
The Aston Martin Mex'Uk Vantage in Photos
More from Robb Report Tod's New Coffee Table Book May Be the Best Shopping Guide to Italy Inside a $12 Million Miami Home Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright Oyster Just Unveiled a Round-the-World 80-Foot Sailing Yacht Best of Robb Report The 2024 Chevy C8 Corvette: Everything We Know About the Powerful Mid-Engine Beast The World's Best Superyacht Shipyards The ABCs of Chartering a Yacht Click here to read the full article. The Aston Martin Mex'Uk Vantage in white. The Aston Martin Mex'Uk Vantage in red. The Aston Martin Mex'Uk Vantage from the passenger seat. The Aston Martin Mex'Uk Vantage's hood. The Aston Martin Mex'Uk Vantage's steering wheel and console.
