Central Chinese Television Building (CCTV) is a 5 million square feet reinvention of the skyscraper. Shaped like an upside down U with right angles, it is all the rage among the architectural in-crowd. Although huge in interior space, it is a modest 54 stories tall. Truly, it’s not the size that matters, but […]
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Skyscraper Is Bent Out Of Shape and We Love It
Published by November 21st, 2006 in Architecture, Commercial Real Estate, Cool Buildings and Hot News. 6 CommentsTree Spheres For The Free Spirit
Published by October 28th, 2006 in Cool Buildings, Getaways, Vacation Properties, Residential Real Estate and outdoors. 3 Comments
We have written about Treehouses before, as well as many other alternative housing options. These hand crafted wood/fiberglass spheres are hung in trees and provide quite an adventure for the free-spirited dweller. They are available for sale or rent.
The brainchild of Tom Chudleigh of Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, these Tree Spheres are […]
Sewer Pipe Dream Hotel: Pay-As-You-Wish
Published by October 23rd, 2006 in Cool Buildings, Cool Websites, Getaways, Vacation Properties and Residential Real Estate. 5 CommentsSewer pipe housing is only part of this European hotel’s charm. Located in Austria, dasparkhotel provides guests with foam mattress double beds, cotton sleeping bags & wool blanket (for those chilly nights), lighting, storage and 220V power. You can stand upright in the “robust drain pipe”. A hole in the top gives […]
Blog Readers Save Bell Labs: Developer Plans World Class Site
Published by August 31st, 2006 in Blogging, Commercial Real Estate, Cool Buildings, Development and Hot News. 11 CommentsPreferred Real Estate Investments (PREI), the developer who purchased the famed Bell Labs property in Holmdel, New Jersey from Lucent Technologies, announced last night at the Holmdel Community Center, that it would preserve the two original Phase I buildings designed by noted architect Eero Saarinen AND build a Library to house & display […]
Katrina Cottages: Affordable Housing from Lowe’s
Published by August 30th, 2006 in Cool Buildings, Press Releases and Residential Real Estate.Lowe’s has teamed up with designer Marianne Cusato to offer affordable house plans for hurricane proof homes for Katrina victims. Prices will range from $35,000 to $45,000. For more information, please read the Lowe’s press release and article from MSNBC.
Dubai Investment: Cube Condo Projects 10% Annual Return
Published by August 30th, 2006 in Condo, Cool Buildings, Getaways, Vacation Properties, Investment property and Residential Real Estate.Adam Nubrick has an international property blog we highly recommend. The world is getting smaller and more people vacation, and invest, in foreign countries. If peace ever reigns, even more will see & experience the beauty that exists everywhere. We follow international real estate issues. We learn from what is happening […]
Capitol Records Building Going Condo?
Published by August 18th, 2006 in Commercial Real Estate, Cool Buildings and Residential Real Estate.Source: Global Graphica
An update: A little birdie tells us that the Capitol Records building in Hollywood, California has received Monument Status for the exterior facade of the building. This is good news because the building, as many have grown love as a unique historic structure, will be preserved. In other news, the building is in […]
Beautiful Walls By Eric Grohe Murals
Published by August 12th, 2006 in Commercial Real Estate, Community/ Web 2.0 and Cool Buildings.
Columbus, Ohio (after)……………………. (before)
Eric Grohe is a unique artist. He transforms ordinary urban walls into inspiring 3D works of art. Many of his murals have an old world […]
Kei’ ichi Irie of Power Unit Studio Japan designed T House (left) and C House (r) as private residences in Japan. If you don’t care for these, he has W House and Y House below.
Want more? Try O House or N House. You get the idea. Domo arigato.
The World’s Only Revolving Apartment Building
Published by August 7th, 2006 in Cool Buildings, Residential Real Estate and Technology. 5 CommentsWe can always count on Hanan at Grow-a-brain to find the unusual. Today, he linked to our post Rotating Home: Sit & Spin in California. But he also had a great link to Suite Vollard in Curitiba, Brazil, the world’s only revolving building. What’s unique is it’s an apartment building where each unit […]
