dreaming red
We sold our Lake House a couple of years ago. It had become a burdensome retreat, large and a lot to care for. Most days we’d sit in the tiniest room just off the kitchen, reading and looking at the gorgeous lake view.
I’ve adapted to life without a weekend retreat. Still, I daydream about the perfect place to spend a weekend day and list the formula in my mind. No more than an hour’s drive from our home in downtown Pittsburgh; one room with a great view; a fireplace center stage; by water; on a biking trail; with grounds that are rough and weedy.
Heaven.
And then I found the Red Guest Houses. Designed by Totan Kuzembaev for a resort near Moscow, they have helped to transform once filthy waste land. I will build one. It will hover above the old steel and weeds, right next to the river, bright red against the grey ground. Apart, yet part of the landscape. My Red Guest House will be something new and creative set into the solid roots of the region.
Soon.
Tags: architecture, design, environment, other cities, reinvention