Another day, another minor kerfuffle over Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger. The Marvel star and the children's book author, who are either the unwitting victims of a vicious and puerile culture war or the two worst people in Los Angeles, bought and tore down a famous home in order to build a new, bigger home on the property, according to Dwell. And people are really mad on behalf of the original house, called the Zimmerman House, which was a midcentury design by famous architect Craig Ellwood.
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Even Frodo Baggins is mad! Imagine if someone tore down a hobbit hole to build one of the two towers.
Sure, you could say that what with all the goings-on going on in the world, defending a house, or defending the rights of celebrities to demolish a house, is kind of silly. But on the other hand, old, architecturally significant houses are cool, and bigger isn't always better.
Explained one person on Twitter, “Chris Pratt & Katherine Schwarzenegger recently purchased & demolished the Zimmerman House, designed in 1950 by the acclaimed architect Craig Ellwood. It's sad to see icons of modernism needlessly destroyed by insensitive McMansion seekers.”
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Other reactions were, let's say, less generous.
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So far, it doesn't look like either Chris Pratt or Katherine Schwarzenegger has commented on their controversial decision.
This article originally appeared on GLAMOUR (US).
