Tacoma’s Deriugin House to be Demolished

Located near the corner of South 25th and Fawcett Avenue in Tacoma, Washington, a long-time local landmark will soon be coming down. Dubbed the Deriugin House, this unusual example of ‘constructivist art‘ with its painted lumber scraps pointing skyward like a bizarre art-deco cathedral, has long been a source of neighborhood angst.

Owned by Vladimir Deriugin Jr. – a self-described architect, sculptor and cinematographer – the house was recently ordered either repaired or demolished by a county judge who deemed it a dangerous building. Vlad has chosen to sell the property after many years of fighting the city over its numerous building code violations.

From an article in The News Tribune…

The late-1880s-era house, which Deriugin dreamed of encasing in concrete and using as the core for a 500-foot office and condominium tower, will be torn down within the next couple of months, Deriugin said.
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Deriugin, 52, estimates he’s invested $2 million worth of time in “research and development” over the years.

Here’s that article at TheNewsTribune.com and then here’s a full page of photos of the unusual building courtesy of KevinFreitas.net.

[via Aaron at House in Progress]