Hello kind ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to The View, the new blog covering travel and more. We’ll be pointing out interesting locations, sights, sounds, activities, and covering all the important issues the modern traveller faces.

Unfortunately, with less and less importance being attached to certain unacknowledged architectural landmarks, one consideration you now face when visiting a city is how to take in the fantastic sights that might not be there to greet you next time around. These are of prime interest to us here at The View, satisfying our passion for the strange, diverse, and exclusive.

“You see, the final result is going to stand on that hill a hundred years or more. Long after we are gone it will be pointed out as the Ennis House, and pilgrimages will be made to it by lovers of the beautiful – from everywhere.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright, in a letter to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ennis (1924)

An emblem of futuristic exoticism in a number of Hollywood films (most famously Bladerunner)

Last week, the L.A. Times and the BBC drew attention to Ennis House in Los Angeles, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most eye-catching buildings, which has been used as an emblem of futuristic exoticism in a number of Hollywood films (most famously Bladerunner). A group of concerned citizens, including actress Diane Keaton, have been raising money to refurbish the building but it seems to have been too much of a stretch. It’s on the market again and we can only hope it finds a buyer willing to keep its Mayan-derived concrete patterns in better shape than the ancient ruins that inspired it.