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The Walker Guest House is designed on an 8-foot-by-8-foot grid, both horizontally and vertically. The project is also known as the ‘Cannonball House’ because of the signature red cannonballs that are used as weights to adjust the wood panels.
Date (s): 1952-1953. Location: Sanibel Island, Florida. Status: Built. Type: Residence. Lacking the dynamic roof of the Healey “Cocoon” Guest House (Siesta Key, Florida 1948-9), or the material ingenuity of his signature Twitchell-era Florida Houses identifiable by their jalousie windows, cypress wood accents and Ocala blocks, the seemingly ...
The Walker Guest House was a compact modern beach structure originally built on Sanibel Island, Florida, for Dr. Walter Walker. It was designed in 1952 by Paul Rudolph as an architectural response to Mies van der Rohe ’s Farnsworth House and Philip Johnson ’s Glass House. [1]
Jan 30, 2019 · Paul Rudolph’s Walker Guest House Needs a New Owner—and Preservationist. Designed by one of America’s leading midcentury architects, the Walker Guest House, main house, and beachfront property are available for $6,795,000.
Dec 3, 2019 · The 576-square-foot (53-square-metre) house was designed by the late architect Paul Rudolph, who is renowned for his mid-century modern designs and, later, his Brutalist buildings.
Dec 2, 2019 · Nestled among the rich vegetation of Sanibel Island’s gulf coast lies an icon of American modernism. The Walker Guest House, designed by the preeminent architect Paul Rudolph for Dr....
Nov 15, 2019 · A rchitectural historians and scholars know the Walker Guest House in Sanibel Island, Florida as a landmark of mid-century design and paradigm of environmentally conscious living.
The Sarasota Architectural Foundation constructed a replica of Paul Rudolph's Walker Guest House (aka Cannonball House). The replica, based on the original house built in 1952 on Sanibel, Florida, officially opened November 6, 2015 during SarasotaMOD Weekend on the grounds of The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art and will remain on exhibit ...
Located near the cul-de-sac this 1.7 acre property offers 200 feet of beach frontage, a 3 bedroom, 3 1/2 bath main home on a high ridge with breathtaking Gulf of Mexico views, an open floor plan, high ceilings, office/loft with fireplace and multiple decks.
Nov 5, 2015 · Celebrated in its time, Paul Rudolph's Walker Guest House (Sanibel Island, Florida, 1952-53) is a magical modernist box essential for understanding Rudolph and midcentury modernism.
