Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

  Chapter 447 Moving (2)

Although Kate told Roland very clearly that her favorite design was the Georgian-style Windsor Castle when she was traveling in Europe before, but the building on the top of Beverly Hills actually has nothing to do with Windsor Castle, because taking a A 157-acre replica of Windsor Castle is really too extravagant.

  Yes, it is luxury.

   No way, who made Windsor Castle only cover an area of ​​thirteen acres?

  The land on top of Beverly Hills is twelve times that.

  Recreating Windsor Castle in this kind of place is equivalent to making dumplings during the Chinese New Year, stuffing a little meat stuffing into a piece of skin, which looks neither beautiful nor wastes most of the land.

  In this way, innovation has become the biggest issue that David needs to consider when planning, and under his consideration, the Viscount Castle with the style of Louis XIV has become the first choice for reference.

   Or in other words, it is a representative of plagiarism.

  Of course, what attracted David was not actually the relationship between the Viscount Castle and the Palace of Versailles.

  It is the symmetrical beauty used in the construction of the Viscount Castle.

At the beginning of the design of the Viscount Castle, the designer Louis Le Verner first drew a 2.4-mile-long axis on the flat land, determined the main location of the Viscount Castle, and then expanded outwards from this center of various buildings.

The long axis dominates all aspects of the entire composition. When the structure of the house is connected, the width of the building will suddenly increase. At the same time, the height problem will make the traditional straight flat roof appear very ugly.

  So, Louis Le Vau introduced the oval central dome design on this basis.

  In this way, when people enter from the main entrance, they break through all the width and height of traditional buildings, allowing the building to create a condescending sense of oppression in the way of mountains.

  As the distance gets closer, the sense of grandeur becomes more apparent.

  At the same time, the left-right symmetrical layout can make the building look like a whole. The harmony displayed by the central axis symmetry is the most acceptable and easy-to-accept intuitive emotion for human beings.

For this reason, when building the castle, dividing the 157-acre land on top of Beverly Hills into a square that can be constructed, and then finding the midpoint and the central axis, is the first step in thinking about the arrangement of buildings. step.

  As it happens, the land after leveling is oval, and it is easy to find the foothold of the main body of the castle.

  So, excavating the soil here became the only choice.

  It is precisely because the location of the building is the center of the top of the mountain, so when driving up the mountain, the visual drop created by the height relationship can give people a sense of pulling green onions on dry land.

  When Kate, who was sitting in the car, noticed that the oncoming trees were getting smaller and smaller, and countless rock buildings were emerging from behind them, the resulting vitality made her open her mouth wide—

   More fragrant mouth!

   "Oh! Shit! I said that when I came to Beverly Hills, why didn't I see the castle on the top of the hill!"

   "So you built it directly in the center?"

Kate, who was lying on the car window, opened her eyes excitedly. While asking, she suddenly turned her head when she thought of something, looked at Roland, and said, "No! This seems to be the last time we went to Francis Coppola's house. A design you've seen from time to time!"

"His villa in New York, through the difference in perspective, created a feeling for the people who went there that the villa came out of the ground! Now, this castle uses the opposite design, which makes people It feels like it grew out of the ground when it heard that a guest was coming! This sudden feeling is so fairytale-like!"

When Kate happily raised her hand and kept patting Roland's arm, wanting to vent her excitement, Roland, who had been hit by her several times in a row, bowed his body with a smile, following his wife's perspective, look up.

  Like Kate, this was the first time Roland saw his home.

Although Roland told David before construction started that Kate seemed to like the design of Francis Coppola's New York villa, but when he saw it, David took advantage of the elevation of Beverly Hills to create exactly the same visual When looking at the scene, the feeling of "going back dozens of steps and suddenly seeing the light" really has a taste of a paradise.

   "How is it? Do you like it?" Roland, who looked at it for a few seconds and rested his chin on his wife's shoulder, asked knowingly.

  Although after beating her husband, Kate has turned her gaze back to the top of the mountain, but the strong nasal response still exists.

"Um!!"

   Such an affirmative answer made Roland grin, and when the driver arrived at the main entrance in a modified Cadillac, the thick outer wall finally presented the main body of the castle in front of them.

It's a pity that before they could observe carefully, after the two of them appeared, David, who had already rushed to the phone, opened the car door first, and after seeing Kate's flushed face and Roland's face cowering, David immediately understood Alright, the culprit who caused me to be unable to sleep after eating at night was this dead child!

   "Who asked you to come to the inspection at night?"

  David leaned closer to Roland and gave him a hard look.

Without giving Roland a chance to speak, the guy who wanted to hold his grandson questioned Roland, then moved to Kate's side again, rubbed his hands, and said with a smile: "Kate, when we were building, you didn't participate in the design. , so I actually don’t know if you like it or not, if you have any ideas, you can directly mention them, even if it’s demolished and changed, it’s fine..."

  The two attitudes of favoring one over the other made Roland stare straight at him, while Kate, who also witnessed all this, covered her mouth and smiled lightly.

   Raised his right hand, took his husband's arm, and shook it gently twice.

After realizing that Roland sighed and retracted the aggrieved face, she looked back at David and said, "Roland believes in your eyesight, and I believe in Roland, so...can we go in? I can't wait! "

  This response made David smile.

  The emotional harmony between the young couple is what he likes to see most.

  As for the question...

   Then don't you want Roland to take the blame first!

  Although there is no problem with the acceptance inspection at night, it is still very unfriendly to pregnant women.

  After all, it’s the first time you’re here and you’re not familiar with everything. If you fall down, everyone will regret it.

  So, when they met, it was David's deliberate arrangement to give Roland a hard time.

   This is not to hate Roland, but to hope that Roland can wake up and be optimistic about his wife.

   After discovering that Roland was holding Kate, David also handed the prepared sunglasses to them.

   "Put it on."

The endless instructions made the two feel a little overwhelmed, but in the next second, when David took out the palm-sized remote control from his pocket and dangled it in front of them, the two who instantly woke up put their sunglasses on onto the bridge of the nose.

   After they were protected, David found the button on the remote control by the light brought by the headlights.

When he pressed lightly on the dark and retro alloy iron door, the iron door with conical spikes on the surface immediately receded slowly towards the sides, and when it retracted into the wall and disappeared without a trace, there was a bang sound. The muffled sound also appeared suddenly.

   It seems to be telling people that the main gate has been opened, but it is more like a secret signal to command thousands of troops.

  As the gate disappeared, countless lights were lit up instantly.

Even with the protection of sunglasses, Roland and Kate still squinted instinctively, but when they realized that the lights couldn't hurt them, their eyes looked around again, and suddenly diverged. Before, they only saw a rough exterior wall, and now it was finally clear. Appeared, and when they discovered that the stone wall in front of them had a height that they could not reach even looking up...

   The surprise welling up in their hearts made them exclaim instinctively, "Oh!!—Damn!!"

   Such a reaction was within David's expectation.

   While chuckling, he also imitated the movements of the medieval butler, and made a gesture of invitation towards the two.

   "Mr. Roland, Mrs. Kate, welcome to Castle Allen.

  You are now at the gate of the castle.

   Standing in front of you is the outer wall of the castle.

  It was thirty-six feet high and twenty-eight feet wide..."

  ...

Yes!

  Although David copied the central axis design concept of the Viscount Castle in the architectural layout of the castle, this does not mean that he will copy other things! Take the exterior wall of the castle as an example. The thick wall of Windsor Castle is his favorite. The combination of Georgian style and Victorian style is the embodiment of modern Gothic style!

  The 36-foot-high and 28-foot-wide wall is a medieval defensive fortress. If you look down, you can find that the thick city wall has turned the huge land into a city within a city!

  In ancient times, this kind of seamless design is almost the same as Ming Fan!

  Even in modern times, this kind of fortification is much more exaggerated than body armor!

because-

  “Although on the surface, this is a stone wall, in fact, the stone is just a shell.”

While David invited the two to climb the city wall and overlook Los Angeles, he patted the bunker in front of him and said, "The twenty-eight-foot-wide outer wall consists of three parts, the outermost one is two feet The purpose of the left and right stones is to look good, and the one-foot-thick alloy frame is close to the stones, and there is another two-foot-thick stone layer next to the alloy frame, and then people can Passage through the wall.

  Just talking about data, you may not understand what this concept is.

  And what I can tell you is that unless someone knocks on the door with M777, it is absolutely impossible for this thing to fall.

  The purpose of our design is actually for defense.

  After all, in a country where guns are abundant and body armor cannot be arbitrarily equipped, we legal civilians can only use these seemingly powerful bunkers to ensure our own safety..."

  When David introduced the city wall to the two with a smile, Roland and Kate were already dumbfounded.

   Stone walls are just appearances? Alloy is the heart?

  Grass grasping, do you want to fight with others?

  However, when David took the two of them down from the city wall, Roland, who sat back in the car again, felt normal again.

   After all, his magically modified Cadillac is stronger than a military transport vehicle. Since the car has been piled up, if the house is still dilapidated, it can't be justified, right...

  When they came to their senses, they were also curious, "How did this thing pass the trial?"

   Facing Roland's question, David, who was temporarily acting as the driver, turned his head and smiled, and said, "Which member of the Donkey Party or the Elephant Party do you think will kill your design out of boredom? Don't you want to do it?"

   "..." Such arrogant words made the young couple curl their lips again and again.

After finding that the two were a little speechless, David said again: "Okay, in fact, this thing has already been reviewed at the beginning of the design, and the reason I used it is that the wall built on the top of the mountain is easy to collapse, so it is necessary to add support. thing.

  Although they felt that this statement was a bit exaggerated, they finally approved it.

   After all, they are accurate for the 36-foot wall. It is understandable to thicken and reinforce it for safety reasons. "

  Although this explanation sounds very lame, the two think it is very reasonable.

  The world of capital...

  Capital is king.

  After seeing the wall, as the two of them went deeper, everything inside was within their acceptable range.

  Walking along the road, the first thing that appears is a symmetrical garden.

Because it is located on the top of the mountain, it is not easy to divert water, and it is impossible to build ponds and canals. Therefore, using curbs to divide the area has become David’s only choice. It is a statue based on the oil painting "Fountain" created by the French neoclassical painter Ingres.

All right…

  This is actually a literary term.

   If you are talking about the general public, it is the European-style woman pouring water statue that most people must have seen.

  However, although this kind of statue is very vulgar, the name of the person under the statue is the root.

  Richard Macdonald's signature doubles the value of an ordinary sculpture.

Well…

All right…

to be honest…

  Roland actually didn't know who he was.

   And when he frowned and carefully looked at the **** sculpture, not knowing what was so special about it, Kate, who had already noticed her husband's confusion, immediately introduced: "He is a representative of new image art..."

  ‘What the hell! '

  Roland still didn't understand, so he had to ask: "Is it famous?"

  This kind of question made Kate roll her eyes, and said in the most popular words: "Sculptures the size of a palm usually cost around 20,000 to 40,000, and the ones that are as tall as people like today are all custom-made.

  The events he shot were basically the 1984 Olympics and the 1996 Olympics.

so…

   He's pretty famous, in a way you can understand.

  Because when he was alive, his works could sell for a high price. "

'oh! ’ Roland understood.

   "Then you like it?" Roland, who knew the status of this guy, asked again.

  Kate did not show as much surprise as before, but she still responded.

   "Put it here, I think it's okay."

'nice! You love it! nice! You love it! ’ Roland sighed in his heart, then nodded with a smile.

  ...

  To be honest, Roland has always felt that he is a guy without artistic bacteria.

   Regardless of whether it is a work of art such as a painting or sculpture, or a load such as a building or a vehicle, he can only give an intuitive evaluation of whether it is beautiful or not. Besides, let him describe the beauty of these things?

   Then he can't fart.

  So, he has no say in matters such as acceptance of the castle.

   When looking at the city wall, he only has defense in his mind;

   While looking at the garden, he can only ask Kate to tell him how much the sculpture is worth;

   Next, even if David introduced to him the carvings of the castle, the golden stone walls, the ratio of the crystal lamps, and the design that there are lights in the corridor but still have wall hanging candles, he...

   Actually sleepwalking.

  Because he didn't understand at all.

What he could understand was that the outbuildings on the left side of the castle contained indoor tennis courts, indoor basketball courts, and a one-million-gallon indoor swimming pool, while the outbuildings on the right side of the castle were the hospital that Roland needed. .

   If it goes a little deeper, there is a helipad in the backyard, and the place on the right that extends towards the sea can actually be built into an airstrip, but only if the wealthy residents of Beverly Hills can agree.

  If you want to go a little deeper...

   That is the soft decoration link.

Because David did not build this place into a real castle, all modern facilities are available, and the most important thing is that everything here can be controlled by computer, such as electric gates and electric lights. The anti-lock and unlock design of the room can be controlled by a console, and it is Microsoft that provides support for these services.

  That’s right, although it was a castle, the smart home in Bill Gates’ home was also moved by David.

   Judging from the outside, the guy living inside is a big traitor who yearns for the life of the royal family.

  But only they know that all the objects around them are the convenient embodiment of current technology.

Of course, although Roland only understands technology and does not understand art, for Kate, this kind of replica of moving stones is already the best building, and when she is led by David, she will drill When he entered the room he had arranged for the two, the arrangement in the cloakroom made Kate, whose face was shining all the way, scream—

   "Oh! David! Did you bring all the wedding dresses I wore before here?"

  Yes, in the cloakroom are all the wedding dresses worn by Kate when she got married the year before last.

Note: ①The flat area of ​​the land on the top of Beverly Hills is really 157 acres. The land was sold for 200 million yuan last year and returned to Herbalife founder Mark Hughes in the hands of the family. ②Los Angeles has more land than Windsor Castle. The piece opposite Beverly Hills belonged to the late Microsoft founder Paul Allen. After leveling, the area is 120 acres. He bought it back then because he wanted to build it himself, but he suffered from cancer and couldn't bear children, so he left it there untouched. ③Although it is said that these lands are larger than those castles, in comparison, the gap is still very large. The garden of the Viscount Castle has 1,235 acres. This is why Louis XIV killed Nicolas Fouquet , your minister's garden is bigger than my house, is that okay? People killed and confiscated their property, and built the Palace of Versailles backhandedly. ④The thirty-six feet mentioned in the article is not an exaggeration, because last year when the Mark Hughes family reclaimed the land and prepared to build themselves, the height of the outer wall approved by the Los Angeles government was forty-eight feet, or fourteen meters. According to California law, residents can use the reason of life safety to build a wall, but it cannot exceed seven feet, so the first wall of Taylor’s house is seven feet, and when it is reinforced to thirteen feet, it is a new report. That is four meters. Walls are actually directly proportional to your wealth. The richer you are, the higher you can build them. If they are not built high, it only shows one problem, poor. ⑤A wall of thirty-six feet by eighteen feet actually exists, and that place is called the Forbidden City.

  

  

  (end of this chapter)