Dec 22
In the “kick them when they are down” department… Jupiter Island style aficionados do not like Tiger Woods’ new mansion he is building there:
She’s hardly alone in her assessment. In a recent informal poll of 5,500 readers at page2live, a Web site of the Post columnist Jose Lambiet — who called the new house “a cross between a discount motel and a beachside nursing home” — 60 percent said the house was “too ugly” for Jupiter Island, part of Florida’s hallowed Treasure Coast.
It cost $44.5 million for just the property. Add in building costs and taxes running $500+K a year and you have to wonder just how far a billion goes these days…
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm
Beauty is still in the eye of the beholder, and polls about beauty can easily be influenced by the voter’s emotional attitude toward some unrelated aspect of the subject.
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:08 pm
It seems very functional, which appeals to me. I suspect his swedish wife had a lot to do with the design.
December 22nd, 2009 at 9:17 pm
It looks kind of plain and flimsy. For that money, you ought to get something a little more substantial, like the mansions in Rhode Island. Something that looks like it might weather a hurricane intact.
Tiger is new money. His behaviour and lack of good taste aren’t all that surprising.