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Luxury Hilltop Compound Architecture Residential
Luxury Hilltop Compound Architecture Residential in Bel Air by Landry Design Group. This 40,000 square foot, 28 / 4 compound sits on 1.5 acres of land in Bel Air, a wealthy residential community in the hills of the Westside of Los Angeles, California. Composed of several buildings, including the main house and separate rooms for staff, guests, and fun, the project was an effort of three years from groundbreaking to completion in June 2010.
Marriott launches triple property
International hotel chain Marriott has confirmed the opening of three new hotels in Doha, Qatar. The company debut its Renaissance, Courtyard and Executive Apartment brands for in Qatar October 4, adding nearly 600 rooms to the capital city in two skyscrapers. The hotels are located in two 48-storey skyscrapers, part of the Doha City Center Mall complex, a huge shopping and tourism complex in Doha’s West Bay district.
The luxury Renaissance hotel offers 257 rooms decorated with images of Qatari cultural art, covering 19 floors of the tower and culminating with a rooftop pool. The midrange Courtyard by Marriott covers 12 floors and the Marriott Executive Apartment offers rental apartments across 21 floors, including a resident’s club at the top complete with lap pool, jacuzzi and views of the city.
Both hotels share some restaurant and leisure amenities at the base of the tower, including the Arabic-inspired Saray Spa and nine restaurants and bars.
According to the complex’s general manager Oliver Kahf, taken together, the lodging, shopping and entertainment complex is quickly becoming a tourism hub in Doha. Marriott’s move is the latest in a series of openings in Doha expected over the coming months journalists got a first look inside the new St Regis Doha set to open January 2012 this week.
Flying Saucer Home
Built in 1970, this flying saucer shaped home is going on the auction block this Saturday. For the right price you can purchase this circular home which resembles an alien craft, complete with landing gear and an entrance staircase that retracts with the push of a button. This unique home, located in Chattanooga Tennessee, consists of multiple levels and has three bedrooms and two baths.
Terry Posey, an agent with Crye-Leike Auctions of Cleveland, Tennessee, said the current owner has had the property only four months and didn’t want to comment. Posey posted an e-Bay ad and said he already has a $100,000 bid.
Although, the design is really eyecatching, buyers beware. Not alot of furniture is designed for circular rooms, so decorating it might be quite a challenge.
The $221 Million Apartment
A Ukrainian business tycon by the name of Rinat Akhmetov, he is also the richest man in Ukraine. His networth is $16 billion so I suppose a $221 million dollar apartment is just pocket change. The $25,000 sq ft apartment is a three story penthouse located in London in the area of One Hyde Park. The apartment was bought bare and the buyer spent about $97.6 million in renovating. What I find a little strange about this transaction is that the purchase happened back in 2007, but for some reason didn’t close till about a week ago. The buyer will host the 2012 World Cup in his country at a stadium he built for $400 million stadium in his hometown of Donetsk.
World’s largest penthouse
Costa Rica is about to get it’s first all-glass residential building, Puntarenas. The real-estate company has already begun pre-sales for this 14-storey oceanfront condominium tower in Costa Rica that they say will set an all new standard for high-end real estate in Latin America. What’s more is that, the $120m Genesis Puntarenas will also be home to the world’s largest penthouse.
The penthouse as well as the building’s other 47 living units will be defined by their floor-to-ceiling retractable glass walls and expansive private all-glass terraces, which will allow homeowners to incorporate the country`s lush landscape into their living space. The enviable property looks over the Pacific Ocean and boasts of a fitness centre, swimming pool with a swim-up bar, restaurant and business centre. A perfect holiday home, the 3-storey penthouse comprises of 10 bedrooms and also has its own rooftop pool, tennis court and a private helipad. Located in the city of Puntarenas (half an hour’s drive from the capital city of San Jose), the pent-house has already grabbed the attention of a Russian bachelor and a Chinese family.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Home For Sale
The 80″²s were fun weren’t they? Big hair, pac man, ditching school and taking a stolen vintage Ferrari for a joy ride. Oh wait, that was Ferris Bueller. In any case it was sweet seeing that thing take a three story dive into the creek behind that sweet garage that the other guy’s dad owned.
Now that garage featured in the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, along with the rest of the estate, is up for sale. Located in Chicago, IL, this incredible estate features incredible vistas of the surrounding woods and a unique modern design by A. James Speyer and David Haid, both notable architects of the 20th Century.
Huf Haus brings to you the most amazing pre-fab HUF homes
Huf Haus, the German specialist supplier of pre-manufactured contemporary homes have desgined a post and beam HUF house which is energy efficient, spacious as well as high-tech.
The HUF house also called as the Green Revolution unites the two concepts: the careful evolution of a classic design combined with a revolution in energy efficiency. These houses are made along with solar panels and even an optional geothermal heating system. The company is well-known in this business as they have built 10,000 modular houses all of which use structural wood panels which are fitted with a highly efficient heat insulation layer.
The company, other than mass producing their signature post-and-beam houses have also partnered with several appliance and interior design companies so that the interiors are just as beautifully thought out as the “bones” of the home.
Strauss-Kahn’s New Place
Dominique Strauss-Kahn was the head of the IMF up until recently. After visiting New York a maid of the hotel he was staying at accused Strauus-Kahn of sexually assaulting her. Since the accusation, Strauss-kahn has since resigned as head of the IMF. He posted a bail of $1 million cash, not something very many people can do. After he was granted bail, he needed to find a place to stay whiles awaiting trial. After being turned down by many homeowner’s he finally found a townhouse in which the owners were willing to rent it to him. The rent for this brick townhouse in New York is $50,000 a month, after posting $1 million in cash for bail, what’s another $50,000 a month in rent. The townhouse is on the market for $13,995,000. It is a 4 bedroom home located in the tony Manhattan neighborhood. The place features a home theater, gym, waterfall showers, Japanese paper walls, fireplace, and renovation. Despite all this though, Strauss-Kahn mini mansion is his prison. He will be watched 24/7.
World’s largest tower in Jeddah will rise high at the cost of $1.2 billion
When Saudi Arabia announced that they were going to build a tower twice size the height of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, we all dropped our jaws. Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is a man of taste and means business and has unveiled the first news on the progress of the plans by awarding Saudi Binladin Group a contract to build the new world’s tallest tower in Jeddah. It will be all of 1,000 metres and will cost Alwaleed’s investing company Kingdom Holding Co 4.6 billion riyals ($1.2 billion) to construct. It will be right at the centre of the Kingdom City, a 100 billion riyal development. The tower is designed by Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill Architecture.
The automaker sells the German castle
Porsche, the German luxury sports car manufacturer, has put the Bavarian castle on sale. The castle situated near the famous Neuschwanstein castle in Alps Mountains, southern Germany, was bought by Porsche in 2006 for a whopping $8 million. A company spokesman was quoted saying that Porsche is parting company with the estate. Purchased under previous boss Wendelin Wiedeking, there were plans to transform the 180,000 sq m, Schloss Bullachberg, castle into a luxury hotel.
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