Dropping $111 million on a Paris pied-à -terre may seem excessive to some, but not to Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani. The Emir of Qatar has recently purchased one of France’s most mythic private homes, the Hôtel Lambert.
Designed by Louis Le Vau in 1640, the property, which sits at the tip of the Ile Saint-Louis, had been the Paris residence of Baron Guy de Rothschild and his late second wife, society queen Marie-Hélène, since 1975, reports W Magazine.
Emir plans a huge overhaul of the building
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New Yorkers are used to living amongst huge skyscrapers around Madison Square Park but they have probably never seen anything like this.
For his first New York building, Daniel Libeskind has proposed a 900+ foot, 54-story glass condo with dripping sky gardens. Libeskind’s creation would swoop up next to, and past, the 700-foot Met Life tower.
Initial designs show a glass-curtained tube with cutaways spiraling up and around the façade to reveal segments of terraced verdure, like cultivated patches on the side of a steep alpine slope.
On the Sunshine Coast of Noosa in Queensland, Australia, renowned architect Frank Macchia has designed a masterpiece getaway. Nestled in a spot known as Hideaway Island, this retreat is a total recluse, without compromising on style, luxury and technology.
The ground level is totally dedicated to easy living. The heated pool and water features meander from the entry to the river emphasizing the indoor-outdoor symbioses.
The sprawling lounge, kitchen and dining areas all capture stunning river views, which in turn invite immediate relaxation.
Sou Fujimoto Architects designed this unusual house located in Oita, Japan.
The house itself is comprised of three shells of progressive size nested inside one another. The outermost shell covers the entire premises, creating an covered, semi-indoor garden. Second shell encloses a limited space inside the covered outdoor space. Third shell creates a smaller interior space.
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The wealthy prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the crown prince of Dubai has gifted the already rich former F1 racer his own piece of “The World”.
Situated off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, “The World” is a grouping of man-made islands developed to look like a map of the Earth.
Valued at roughly $7 million, Schumacher’s island will be located in the southern hemisphere, part of the “Antarctica” island cluster, when completed in a few years, presumably before the Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower in Abu Dhabi is completed.
