The Taschen family planned to commission Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas to build a large new guesthouse at the base of Chemosphere on the site once owned by Leonard Malin's in-laws.
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Since there are effectively no solid external walls the entire outer " face " of the house is eight large picture windows the Chemosphere enjoys a panoramic view over the San Fernando valley.
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It cropped up in the design of fast-food outlets and airport terminals as well as the Space Needle in Seattle and John Laudner's Chemosphere house, which hangs over the Hollywood Hills.
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In 1998, Taschen purchased the 1961 John Lautner designed Chemosphere House in the Hollywood Hills, long considered the most modern house in the world, establishing Taschen as a key cultural figure in Hollywood circles.
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It is ironic that, although famous Lautner works like the Carling and Harpel houses, the Chemosphere and the Sheats Goldstein Residence have become inextricably linked with Los Angeles in the public imagination, Lautner repeatedly expressed his dislike of California.
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They intend to remedy this by having Jeff Koons create a sculpture on the hills behind the house and by commissioning Rem Koolhaas to build a large new guesthouse at the base of Chemosphere on the site once owned by Malin's in-laws.
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Indeed, one publisher, the German Benedikt Taschen, who brought out " Julius Shulman : The Architecture and Its Photography, " was so taken with Los Angeles design that he bought and is restoring the architectural landmark Chemosphere House by John Lautner.
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Lautner's Chemosphere House, built in Hollywood in 1960 ( and richly documented in an excellent new monograph on Lautner, published by Artemis ), is an octagonal pod, cantilevered out from a single column set into the side of a 45-degree slope.
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Chemosphere was deemed the most modern house in the world in 1961 by the Encyclopaedia Britannica and selected almost 40 years later by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles to represent Lautner's work in its " End of the Century " architecture exhibition.
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One of the city's architectural icons, Lautner's Chemosphere house _ a round, faceted structure perched on a single concrete column set on a steep slope _ was especially well suited to " Body Double " as an observation point for a peeping Tom who spots a grisly murder.
