Architecture tadao ando: rancho toma ford

Rancho Cerro Pelon is considered one of the largest private estates in the United States. Today it is put up for sale and is estimated at about $ 75 million. Designed by Cerro Pelon in 2010, Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The Pritzker laureate, professional carpenter, boxer and self-taught architect, teacher at Tokyo University, Yale and Harvard, Ando is known as the author of intellectual architecture: meditative museum spaces, temples and houses of monuments. French billionaire Francois Pinoau trusts his contemporary art museums to him.

The residence of Tom Ford. Adjacent to it are several pools, which makes it seem as if it is standing on the water.

In addition to the buildings of Tadao Ando, ​​there are riding stables, houses for guests and service personnel, an airstrip and old scenery to the western. In the center of the ranch is the hill of Cerro Pelon or Galisteo Wave (Galisteo Wave), famous for its petroglyphs and traces of settlements of the Pueblo Indians, in the north of the hill flows the river Galisteo.

Designer and director Tom Ford.

Tom Ford (born 1961) is an American director and fashion designer. He studied architecture and interior design at the famous Parsons School of Design in New York (along with Bill Sophield), but in the last year he abruptly changed his career, starting to look for work in the field of fashion. In 1994, Ford was appointed creative director of Gucci and literally saved the company from ruin. In 2007, Ford opened its own boutique in New York. The Tom Ford International brand is positioning itself as an exclusive for millionaires - from custom suits to silk dresses, everything is positioned for those who have Lucio Fontana hanging at home or Giacometti sculptures. In 2008, Ford made the film "The Lonely Man", which received a number of prestigious awards. Thirty years old Tom Ford has lived with his spouse, journalist Richard Buckley (b. 1948). In 2012, they had a son.

Сакральная архитектура Тадао Андо.

Tom Ford grew up in Texas, New Mexico has always had a special meaning for him, because his grandmother lived here. Previously, Ford dreamed of spending his old age on the ranch. But in the spring of 2016, according to The LA Times, Tom Ford bought a $ 53 million villa in Beverly Hills, owned by designer Kelly Westler and her husband, Brad Corten, developer.

In the vast desert territory of New Mexico (8,000 hectares), 8 buildings were planned. The famous Japanese sold three of them - a villa, a stable for eight horses and a mausoleum (originally for Ford’s favorite terrier, but then the rancher himself expressed a desire to be buried here). All constructions are made of concrete, have simple forms and large, large-scale territories.

Before Tom Ford, the ranch was called Cook Movie Ranch - it was owned by Bill and Marian Cooke. Entrepreneurial spouses leased land to filmmakers. In 1985, the film “Silverado” was filmed here, from the shooting of westerns there were decorations in the form of wooden cowboy buildings with a saloon. Today, Cerro Pelon is again for sale, which came as a surprise to local realtors, who were not used to such high estimeytam.

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