Hello,
A reporter with the Wall Street Journal is preparing a piece about quirky dream homes. See her email below for more detail. If you have worked on such a project (and can speak on it) and provide images, please let me know as soon as possible. Feel free to forward this message onto other architects who might be able help out.
best
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Matthew Tinder
Manager, Media Relations
The American Institute of Architects
Washington DC
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From the reporter:
Basically, the story is about highly specific dream homes-- people who spare no expense to build or renovate their home to so it exactly suits their specific tastes or longtime dream, even if others might consider it quirky. Some examples of the kinds of things we're looking for: a private castle with a moat, this home with its own Old West saloon and jail: http://online.wsj.com/articles/ranch-with-a-new-old-west-town-1406820524?KEYWORDS=saloon#4 or this "Hobbit House": http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/13/hobbit-house-pennsylvania_n_2293633.html.
Yes we'd want to interview several different architects (and ideally the clients who live in these homes), and would want photos-we might even do photo shoots of some of the homes.