Word: wayzata
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank Gehry's buildings are still self-conscious and perverse, but they no longer set out to disturb. Tranquillity and polish are now permitted. For a lakeside guesthouse in Wayzata, Minn., Gehry has created a kind of mixed-media outdoor sculpture. Each room is a distinct object: the living-dining room is a central tower, a bedroom is a curve of local stone, and so on. The forms are vaguely toylike (befitting rooms intended to house the visiting children and grandchildren of the owners), or like the extraterrestrial outpost of puckish, inventive earthlings...
...fast-talking, blunt-speaking man with a boyish face and ready grin, Jacobs wears his wealth casually. He sometimes answers his own phone and regularly drives himself to work from his home in the stylish Minneapolis suburb of Wayzata in a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II. He makes no claims to being a great long-range corporate planner, even to the point of refusing to keep an appointment calendar. Jacobs is a person of instinct and action. Says he: "You can't predict what I'm going to do next because there is no track, no character...
...City or his proposal to build a mile-high skyscraper in Illinois. The present revival, however, focuses on Wright's early domestic architecture, his houses and, significantly, their interior designs. Last year the Metropolitan Museum placed the reconstructed living room of his Francis Little House (1912-14) of Wayzata, Minn., on permanent display, joining the Temple of Dendur and other landmarks of the march of civilization. Wright was despotically insistent on designing every interior detail of his houses, right down to flower vases and table linens; he even wanted to redesign the telephone...
Builders across the U.S. report that home buyers have eagerly taken to land leases. After the concept was inaugurated at Park Lane last October, sales rose from an average of less than two houses a month to more than five a week. Says David Carlson of Centurion Co. in Wayzata, Minn.: "We've sold about 300 land-lease homes in the past year and just finished building a 280-unit condominium on the same program...