Modern Architecture homes in Newport Beach? (Laguna Niguel, Dana Point: real estate, buying a house, neighborhoods)

[1Asian]

Which street in NB has the latest Modern Architectural Artiistic Homes?

I saw on google maps all the houses there are really old and ugly but yet they demand over 14 Million Dollar price Tag.

[Coldjensens]

New homes are mostly cookie cutter designs out of catalogues. Modern Architecture has become somewhat of an oxymoron. If by Modern Acrhitecture, you mean that you want McMansions, try newport crest.

IN the beach and view areas, arcitecture suffers even in many of the custom homes because real estate, especially with a view or at the beach is at a premium. Everyone feels that they must have more square footage than the next guy. Thus, most of the lots are overbuilt and the homes look terrible. Everything was built out years ago, so you are looking at buying a house to tear down and replace with a bigger house. Unless you buy two lots or more, you will not get a good balance for architecture, the lot will be overbuilt. Because they are so close together, appearance becomes less important (you cannot really see them anyway). Privacy limits the number of windows. Custom quality architecture is very expensive hard to find and costly to build. Most people would prefer more square footage for their money. Thus, even in the multi million dollar homes, quality architecture is rare. You can find it in places, but it is rare.

Laguna Beach has some nice architecture, but it is mostly older homes. However there are some nicely designed custom homes here and there. There are some decent places in Newport beach down ont he point of the peninsula and on that private island (I cannot recall the name). However you are looking at houses in the ten million range.

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

that private island (I cannot recall the name). However you are looking at houses in the ten million range.

Linda Isle? I've been there few times. Every house is custom so there's a wide variety of styles.

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

Linda Isle? I've been there few times. Every house is custom so there's a wide variety of styles.

Yeah! Linda Isle which was originally a lump of sand known as Shark Island because of the hammerheads (that's special!) and which we natives with boats used to sail to and picnic on.

[1Asian]

Holly Jesus I just googled Linda Isle WOW all the house are so close together wt !!!

I see a lot of houses have huge boats on Bayshore drive according to google map would that be where all the rich American live?

[shockware]

If you happen to have a picture of any of those modern houses in Newport Beach would you mind sharing them with me? I'm doing a new site about Newport Beach Houses http://www.newport-beach-houses.net and I really need those actual pictures. Thanks!

[George Leroy Parker]

To have the "latest" would assume new homes being constructed. Newport is pretty built out so anything really "latest" would be a teardown which are here and there but not a whole street. To see more of the "latest" you'd probably need to go South and inland a bit to communities created more recently around Laguna Niguel for example. I guess it depends what you consider "latest". There's been plenty of newer neighborhoods built since the beginning of the 90s just about everywhere.

The house I grew up in in Dana Point was built in the late 60s and still looks great today. However, I have a preference for mid-20th century contemporaries somewhat modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright.