Architecture Wednesday: Hollander House, The Organic Wave House

Architect David Hollander designed this home, the Hollander House, between 1969 and 1971 using hand-formed ferro cement to mimic the contours of a wave. It’s lauded as a prime example of Australian organic architecture—it was even voted one of the country’s top five houses in 1973—with living spaces ‘cascading’ over three levels and curvilinear interior spaces.

Rooms inside the three-bedroom home have elliptical, white-plastered walls and furniture and cabinetry created specifically for the home. The main space is the dramatic double-height living room, set around a sunken conversation pit with a curvy banquette, a colossal fireplace with a concrete hearth, and an original 1971 Curtis Jeré wall installation.

Hollander installed ‘light folds’ and ‘sky domes’ to draw light into the deepest recesses of the home, and sliding glass doors further amplify light flow across the home, which sits within bushland, surrounded by gum trees a short walk from Newport Beach.

A previous owner added the decking to the outside space, and the property has been upgraded with a whole-house water filtration system, electric vehicle charger and an ozone purifier.

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This Is The GOP & Why You Need To Vote Blue

Here we are again, showing you the GOP and their true colors … white hooded grifters, traitors, liars and asshats …

On Sunday ABC News anchor Martha Raddatz spoke to Speaker of the House, Christian Nationalist, Mike Johnson, about The Felon’s attacks on Kamala Harris for her laugh, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Biden, whom he called a “sick, weak, pathetic man” and Johnson, lips firmly pressed to The Felon’s gelatinous ass said:

“Look, there’s campaign rhetoric on both sides…there has been. It’s beyond disputed that [The Felon] has been the most attacked and maligned public figure in the history of the country.”

Funny how someone who calls himself a Christian can lie so easily.

As VP hopeful  JD Vance faces renewed scrutiny over his previous comments criticizing childless individuals, an newly unearthed 2021 interview shows the vile pig advocating for higher taxes on Americans without children and saying that people with children should get extra votes.

For someone who seems to advocate for children he’s done very little to stop children from being slaughtered in schools.

Remember a couple of weeks ago, in I Didn’t Say That here on this blog, Utah’s GOP Governor Spencer Cox said he would neither endorse nor vote for The Felon? Well, he drank the Kool-Aid and now, after #EarGate, says:

“Your life was spared. Now because of that miracle, you have the opportunity to do something that no other person on earth can do right now: unify and save our country.”

Unity? If Cox expects unity from a man who bashes anyone and everyone who dares disagree with him, he’s dumber than this flip-flop makes him look.

Last week Alabama GOP Senator and certified loon, Tommy Tuberville announced a $550 million federal grant for the I-10 Mobile River Bridge and Bayway Project. He claims to have been working with the Department of Transportation to secure this grant since being sworn into office in 2021 but the facts suggest differently as White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates pointed out:

“Those are someone else's points, Coach … the commencement of a bridge project in [your] home state … was made possible by money from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which [you] voted against."

Another lying hypocritical Republican.

There’s an old saying that when someone shows you who they are, take them at their word; I give you, The Felon:

“And again, Christians, get out and vote! Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed! It’ll be fine! You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians! I’m a Christian. I love you. Get out. You gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again.”

The man is a lunatic and needs to be stopped.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has ordered Balanced Nutrition Inc., to repay more than $132,000 in federal funding following a finding of “serious deficiencies” against the organization earlier this week.

Balanced Nutrition is run by Yolanda Hill Robinson, wife of hate-filled pastor and current candidate for governor,. Gov. Mark Robinson. Balanced Nutrition improperly billed the federal food program for some food purchases and bought items not allowed for the childcare program.

The candidate’s wife is a grifter.

Here’s a direct quote from J.D. Vance at the RNC and if this doesn’t scare the shiz out of you …

“We want to promote the types of virtues that exist in Kyle Rittenhouse.”

The underage murderer who crossed state lines with weapons and shot and killed two men and wounded another man are the virtues J.D. Vance finds good.

The 2024 RNC platform, that aides to The Felon drafted, stops just shy of calling for a constitutional amendment to give embryos or fetuses constitutional rights and does not call for any national bans on abortion, but it does say that existing constitutional rights to due process grants states the power “to pass laws protecting those rights.” The new platform draft also removes language from 2016 platform condemning SCOTUS’ 2015 decision to grant same-sex couples the right to marry.

But you can rest assured if the GOP wins in November a national abortion ban will be put in place and same-sex marriage will no longer be legal.

Trust.

The Felon repeatedly attacked Vice President Kamala Harris during a rally on Wednesday, telling the crowd:

“She’s totally against the Jewish people.”

The is news to her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, who is Jewish.

He also mispronounced Harris’s first name dozens of times either because he’s a scared little baby or he’s simply stupid..

This week Tennessee GOP Representative Tim Burchett dismissed the qualifications of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and Vice President Kamala Harris, calling both women “DEI hires.”

I’d like to remind you all that when you hear the words “DEI hire” tell yourselves that it’s the new “n****r” or “f****t” or any other derogatory term for marginalized people.

It’s racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic and wrong.

Self-avowed Christian nationalist—more commonly called Nat C’s—Daily Wire host Matt Walsh said of Kamala Harris:

“Having children gives you a stake in the future of the country that those without children simply don’t have. OK? That’s not a moral judgment, it’s just a fact. You have more invested in the future of the country when you have children who will be living in it … The larger point is not that Harris has no children of her own—it’s why she has no children of her own. She’s a woman who has chosen to dedicate her life to her own personal ambition and career advancement.”

I guess step-children don’t count in a Christian Nationalist world. And I guess if your children were murdered in a school shooting, church shooting, or mall shooting, your votes don’t matter because you are no longer an asset to America.

In North Carolina, Mark K. Robinson, a GOP candidate for governor and ALLEGED pastor, is known for his hate-filled views, like when he called for “killing” his fellow Americans who disagree with the GOP policies, He also referred to members of the LGBTQ community as “maggots,” called Michelle Obama a “he,” and has denied the Holocaust.

And yet he still thinks he’s a man of God? I’m sure God has heard his bull shiz and She is not happy.

The Felon spoke with Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner that his solution to illegal immigration was “we’re going to get them out,” which is entirely in line with a massive deportation plan of as many as 12 million people detailed in the controversial Project 2025 plan.

You know, the plan that 144 of his people created and the plan he says he knows nothing about.

The Alabama GOP has refiled a bill to arrest librarians. The new bill redefines “harmful to minors” by redefining the term “sexual conduct” and sets out a procedure that would allow criminal charges to be brought against librarians if material “harmful to minors” is shelved in sections for minors.

Remember the last time a political party suggested banning and burning books because that is where the GOP is headed.

Heritage Foundation President and Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts has a new book coming out, and The Felon’s running mate, Vivian JD Vance wrote a very enthusiastic foreword and review promoting the book.

And all the while The Felon wants you to believe he knows nothing about Project 2025. Uh huh.

Please note that each time JD Vance speaks he digs a deeper hole for The Felon; as does most of the hate-filled, bigoted, racist, misogynistic, anti-children GOP.

So, stand tall, speak up, and …