Ugly Persian Houses

wow, architecture by loonie tunes

 

They sure love their columns...

 

This is really funny to me.

Certain cultures sure do have different tastes. When I was house shopping it was always evident that someone of Persian or similar descent had lived there as there was gold plating and ornamentation everywhere inside and out. Also lots of columns.

To me it was extremely gaudy and tacky but really...to each their own.

The only time it bothers me is when you go into an area like mine with 50's/60s ranch homes and there, smack dab in the middle, is a two story 'palace' that looks like it was lifted out of the middle east.

Sadly what I described is just down the street from me.

 

come to london soon, maybe 5 years, will look like persian qatar country... when the oil ends we can rebuild back british architecture lol.

 

I'm always surprised by the large homes around metro Detroit (Chaldian/Persian) that are large, and right next to the main roads so everybody 'sees' the wealth. More of the traditionalist large homes are set back away from the road, and have hills/trees/gates.

http://tinyurl.com/7dac62x 3 or 4 right in a row... just awkward to me.

 

I'm not a fan of big columns holding up....not much. The red SLR with gold plating would look good in these driveways.

 

last weeks episode of "selling LA" a divorced mom tours a few houses in Hollywood, they looked normal from the outside but OMG what was on the inside, columns in every room, gold leaf on all the furniture and moulding. The look on the women's face as she says " I can't really picture myself living here".

I wonder what the builders of these mini palaces ever think about "resale"?

 

they just sell to another Persian

 

Not Persian.
http://www.mnn.com/your-home/at-home/blogs/infamous-la-home-for-sale-davids-included

 

From http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/03/ugly-persian-houses.html ....this is truly astonishing. In Brentwood no less!
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Wow, that looks exactly like something you'd see in the high-end parts of Baghdad or Amman.

 

or Tehrangeles?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehrangeles

 

At least they're not doing the life-size statues with painted genitals like the crazy Sheik had in front of his house on Sunset Boulevard back in the 70's.

 

That building looks like a joke, how ugly, vile...

 

Ha I remember that, he painted the genitals red!

 

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