Re: [in-enaction] sadly, anything goes in the name of...: but Travolta does it better! (air-park housing)

| we still prefer architecture, per se, without ethico-moralistic-
| sounding gloss. jus' staying alive looks better....

> .....
> Sustainable
>
> The project's architect, David Hertz, says he came up with the idea of 
> using an aeroplane to build a home to Ms Rehwald's specifications.
>
> "It soon became apparent, that in fact, an aeroplane wing itself could 
> work," he says on his website.
	
'Hi honey, I'm home'

John Travolta's new pad in Florida has eight parking spaces - six for 
his cars and two for his aeroplanes. Oh, and a 1.4 mile runway round the 
back. Jonathan Glancey on the ultimate boys' fantasy house
....
Not so air-park housing developments as a whole. There are about 450 of 
these in the US - 78 in Florida alone - according to the Living With 
Your Plane Association, which knows about these things. Many are 
remarkably prosaic; they are not even particularly expensive. It is just 
that they have Cessnas rather than Ford pick-ups parked beside the door. 
The first, called an "air ranch" and dating from 1941, was built in 
Carmel Valley, California, by Byington Ford, a man who believed that 
aircraft would, one day, be just as popular as Henry Ford's automobiles. 
Rather unfortunately, the first complete "hangar homes" on the ranch 
were unveiled on December 7, the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. 
All private planes flying the West Coast were grounded.

cont'd....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1124167,00.html

| keep 'em flying....