Steve Jobs Demolishes Historic Home
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- ethanfink
http://www.appleinsider.com/arti…
What a jackamo. In 70 years, lets just torch all of his crappy ipod and ibook creations and destroy them. They were of no use to society anyway, they should not be preserved to show future society how things were way back when...
- morilla0
Did you even read the article?
- ethanfink0
Yes, and if Jobs understood the fact of embodied energy, he would know that destroying a home and putting it in a landfill is the most detrimental environmental catastrophe of our time. This alone in the US causes much more environmental damage than car pollution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emb…
Thats just the environmental reason.
He has obviously never read cradle to cradle or anything by bruce mau. Don't get me wrong, I love his products, but his environmental practices are atrocious.
- fooler20
"In 70 years, lets just torch all of his crappy ipod and ibook creations and destroy them."
70 years? I don't think I have kept an Apple product working and around for 7 years.
- TheBlueOne0
"the fact of embodied energy, he would know that destroying a home and putting it in a landfill is the most detrimental environmental catastrophe of our time."
I see.
*backs out of thread
- ethanfink0
Obviously... but should his products be kept in museums and as artifacts? Like the original model t ford, its not about the car its about the process and its contributions for society as a whole.
- ethanfink0
Blueone, those links are fantastic, especially the photos...
- morilla0
Those photos are killer
- TheBlueOne0
The house has a pipe organ!...what the hell is wrong with Jobs??
- dMullins0
It's amazing, the things people care about.
- jgilmore0
its only 70 years old, not exactly historic!
- ninjasavant0
and how does this affect you?
- raf0
What will happen here? Instead of $ millions being pumped into the economy, the house will decay alongside his owner. Jobs' descendants will build something there when there's nothing left of it.
- GeorgesII0
EVERYBODY CALM THE FUCK DOWN!
he's just making it pig flu proof!
- homeostatic0
Not impressed by the construction or interior spaces...
It's not like he's trying to tear down a Greene & Greene home...
- Jnr_Madison0
I've not read anything but if he fucking hates it, why did he buy it?
- fooler20
I think he should be able to do what ever he wants to on his property.
On the other hand I was pissed when I learned an Oregon man bought some river front property with the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in the state on it. He was going to tear it down and build a McMansion but someone finally talked him into donating it and moved it to another location.
- talked him into donating it? or paid him into donating it?styleplus
- boobs0
It's is Woodside. What the hell historic ever happened in Woodside?
- ethanfink0
In 1984 Jobs lived in this home, he was even on the cover of Newsweek on the property. So at a time it was of perfect condition. However he has let it fall into the disrepair we see in these pictures above.
Yes the property is his, however by California law this property has been deemed to be of historic value, therefore deeming Jobs not able to demolish the home.
"On September 23rd, 2005 our case was heard before the Superior Court of the State of California in San Mateo County. The Judge asked Jobs' lawyer why baseline evidence was lacking to justify destruction of heritage. She asked if his client was basically unwilling to spend even $1 to mitigate for this loss to State heritage. Judge Weiner reiterated the need for evidence, noted that doors had been removed, and that the Town CAN penalize demolition by neglect. "
So he decides to abandon the home, and have it fall into disrepair so it could possibly be taken off the deemed for historic value list.
Maybe this is how billionaires do things. But this seems like a big fucking waste of time and money and a historic place.
Here is more info on the architect:
George Washington Smith: Architect of the Spanish Colonial Revival. (Gibbs' Smith Publishers, December, 2005) Author and historian Patricia Gebhard is a member of UOHGeorge Washington Smith is one of only NINE great California estate designers acknowledged in "The Garden Book" (Phaidon, 2002). Smith gets a full page in the book, along with the world's most important designers of palaces, châteaux, country houses, including Thomas Jefferson, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the designers of the Alhambra, the Imperial Palace and Gardens in Tokyo, and Versailles!
The Jackling House offers distinguished provenance and history. Visitors have included Charles Lindbergh, Shirley Temple, Mr and Mrs Richard Nixon, and a main character in Tom Wolfe's "The Electric Koolaid Acid Test"
- "a main character"ismith
- So that was a whole lot of words to say "Jobs is an asshole" essentially.TheBlueOne
