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This underground home in Vals, Switzerland was a design collaboration between architects at SeARCH and Christian Muller Architects.
The circular opening on the mountainside has lots of windows in order to allow light to flood into this underground dwelling.
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This fine example of green architecture, located in Ceará, Brazil, was designed by Gerson Castelo Branco.
The design combines nature, design, and technology.
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Located in Tokyo,Japan the Lik House was designed by satoru hirota architects.
Each room of the house links to the other in this one-level single family home.
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The Beam House was designed by Uri Cohen Architects in Arbel, Israel for a client that wanted his home built near his farm.
The house is divided into three-private,semi-private, and public-strips, with the private strip surrounded by concrete walls.
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Located in São Paulo, Brazil and designed by grupoSP, this home was meant to harbor at least 7,500 books.
The living room is located on the lower level for maximum privacy.
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This residence-located in Majorca, Spain- belongs to prince/talk show host Karl-Heinz Richard Furst von Sayn-Wittgenstein. The home was inspired by German industrial designer, Lugi Colani whose works tend to have rounded and organic forms.
This residence boasts more than 1,230 square feet of 24-carat gold. All of the appliances in the home are remote controlled, making this a technologically advanced home as well as luxurious.
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The 5,299 square foot Armada House was designed by KB Studio and was built in 2007.
This modern home is located in the Ten Mile Point/Westwood Estates neighborhood of Victoria,British Columbia, Canada.
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This luxury villa, located in Phuket, Thailand is a vacation home with six bedrooms, views of the Andaman Sea and an infinity pool.
The Amanzi Villa, designed by Original Vision Studio, features modern architecture and a contemporary interior designed to allow ultimate relaxation for its guests.
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This home, done by De Maria Design, is made up of eight recycled shipping containers as well as traditional building materials.
Seventy percent of the home was assembled in the shop, saving money and resources for a building resistant to mold,fire and termites.
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Sugamo Shinkin Bank was designed by Tokyo architecture and design group Emmanuelle Moureaux.
The layered slabs of saturated color are meant to create a sense of ease and solitude on the exterior while elliptical skylights allow light to flood into the interior. Bright color is also included within the interior in order to connect it to the rainbow-slabbed exterior.
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Located in Zurich, Switzerland, Raiffeisen Bank was designed by NAU with associate team DGJ.
The bank was designed with the goal of creating an environment that would break down both physical and emotional barriers between bank customers and their staff.
Customers can learn more about Raiffeisen Bank’s services and products though touch screen tables, and are surrounded by digitally produced portraits of prominent past residents of the area.
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This Flight Simulation Center, located in Stuttgart, Germany, provides the experience of piloting a Boeing 737.
Boris Banozic was the architect responsible for the interior and graphic design as well as the concept for this public center.
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The Yellow Brick House is located in Pavilniai Regional Park in Lithuania.
G. Natkevicius& Partners-an architectural firm-built this home in the historical park with rare stone formations dating back to the Ice Age and a nearby 17th century munitions factory.
On this particular plot of land stood a yellow brick building that turned out to be a part of a cannon foundry. Because this building was a part of history, and not large enough to house the four-member family that owned i...
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Located near Munich, Germany this minimalist home was designed by its resident, Susanne Nobis.
Nobis went for a more modern take of the traditional twin boat house, common by the lake where the home is located. Her aim was to get as much natural light in as possible and to avoid tampering with the natural setting surrounding the home.
One of the connected houses has living, dining, and cooking areas on the bottom floor with a gallery above while the other has two offices, a guest ro...
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This restored Victorian home, designed by Chenchow Little, in Sydney, Australia still has its original facade.
However, this traditional Victorian facade masks the minimalist dwelling with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a kitchen.
The bedrooms are on the ground floor, and the living areas on the top floor in order to allow natural light to flood into south-facing skylights and strategically placed windows.
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Villa Veth is located on a large plot of land near a forest in the town of Hattem in the Netherlands.
Some of the customized furnishings as well as the house was designed by Liong Lie of 123DV.
Only one level of this family home is located above ground.
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Hanse Colani has created a space saving house with a rotating cylinder that contains a bedroom, a bathroom, and a kitchen.
The cylinder rotates bringing the room you desire into the view of the living room.
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Built between 1904 and 1906 in the heart of Barcelona is Gaudí's Casa Batlló.
Gaudí morphed the original facade of the home into a whimsical and imaginative creation
with a new composition of stone and glass.
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Shelter Island Pavillion- Long Island, New York
The Heidelberg Project- Detroit, Michigan
Cliffside Homes- Riomaggiore, Italy
Nely Galán House- Los Angeles, California
Dick and Jane's Spot- Ellensburg, Washington
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Discovered in 1973, Ricardo Bofill bought and transformed this abandoned cement factory into a beautiful home.
The Cement Factory is also an architectural office, archive, and an exhibition space.
Cleaning the cement of the original structure, and exposing some underlying structural elements as well as planting various trees and plants was a large part in this two year renovation.
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This environmentally friendly home in Singapore, known as The Fish House, was designed by Guz Architects.
Its design allows residents to be closer to nature with smooth tropical breezes flowing throughout the structure, and ocean views from every room.
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The new Zombie Apocalypse craze has surpassed television and film and has now seeped into the architectural
world with the creation of the first zombie-proof home.
Designed by KWK Promes, this home has only one entrance that can be accessed only after crossing the drawbridge
on the second floor. The walls also move and close among themselves, the windows covered by slabs of concrete,
completely sealing the home.
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This modern home, designed by architectural design team A-cero, is located in La Finca, Spain. It is one of many
in a complex of homes that boast copious green areas and lakes.
The theme of simple and rectangular shapes is present throughout the home, including the bedrooms paired with
water mirrors and pools creates dream-like spaces throughout this modern style home.
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According to the owners, this San Francisco Bay Area home was built around 1882.
The couple who owns the home has spent over 30 years trying to maintain the home, which boasts some original Victorian architectural aspects as well as a breathtaking view of Sonoma Mountain. The property also has pomegranate trees, wrought iron gates at its entrance, and a wraparound porch reminiscent of a Midwestern farmhouse....
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Article by Tyson via ArchitectureLinked | House design by Guz Architects I think one of the reasons that many are skeptical about environmental design is because they think its terribly complex and costly. It does take a bit more effort on the front end, but it's definitely not rocket science. This architecture by Guz Architectsis a wonderfully developed minimalistic design with a curvilinear flare that really brings out the organic coverings. I'm most impressed with how design fac...
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via ShockBlast The spectacular Leaf House was designed by Mareines + Patalano Arquitetura and is located in Angra dos Reis, close to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Stretching over a surface of 8,600 square feet, this original looking beach home is covered by a giant leaf-shaped roof that isolates the building from the sun. best
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via Forbes The mid-century home was completed in 1951 by architects Pereira & Luckman. Sinatra leased the impressive property for much of the 1950’s. Did you know?? Judy Garland and Vincent Minnelli held their wedding at the home....
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By Amazing Architecture | Joseph Rossi The River Side House is an impressive project designed by Mizuishi Architect Atelier and located in Tokyo, Japan. The small home was constructed on a triangle site and occupies a building area of 29.07 square meters. According to the architects, the structure of the residence includes functionally separate areas, as follows. The first is the dining & kitchen area, situated up the stairs and having high ceilings with a feeling of rise towards the roo...
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Colleen Kane, CNBC via Yahoo. While not everyone believes in ghosts, there are still American houses that are generally considered to be haunted. Plenty of houses just look scary, as if they’re starring in a ghost story or a horror movie. In fact, a few of the following homes we found have starred in scary movies. But scary movies are just one frightening association in the following collection of homes including some suggestions and images from Zillow.com. Other residences here are not (ne...
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A Home Can Be So Much More Than A House via You Live Where This house sure is a doozy, or at least the fall from it is. The archway at the bottom, while sacrificing some stability, is a nice touch. Do you think that the designer of this house likes roofs? As if this house needed to be more top-heavy. My real question is: Where is the electricity coming from to operate that lift? I imagine that it would be a little windy all the way up there. A great little detail that just proves the amazing...
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Level Architects: House with Slide[s] via Design Boom 'house with slide' by level architects | all images courtesy level architects Yokohoma-based atelier level architects has completed 'house with slide', a three-story family residence that features a continuous circulation route that utilizes both stairs and the playground equipment. Circumscribing the volume of the house, the playful layout places the living spaces at the core of the house with a number of access points along the...
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-Yahoo! Travel Starting with simple logs from fallen trees or a few stones strategically placed across a stream, bridges and humans have had a long history. Many are designed exclusively for people on foot or on bike; others are for use by cars, boats or trains. Some bridges connect continents; others are known more for their histories and the cultural interest they inspire. “Few man-made structures combine the technical with the aesthetic in such an evocative way as bridges” wrote David ...
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-CNBC People make mistakes, and sometimes those mistakes happen on the job. Usually, the incident is corrected and the whole thing is forgotten within minutes. However, the workplace mistake is harder to ignore when the person who makes it is an architect. After all, when the teenager working the drive-thru window gives you a Quarter Pounder instead of a Big Mac, it causes a lot less trauma than when a 3,000-foot-long suspension bridge collapses into the Puget Sound. In "The Yale Book...
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-DjMick Travel Pictured here are ten locations around the world photographed years apart showing how some places undergo dramatic change in a relatively short period of time, whilst others can change very little even after forty or fifty years. Shanghai 1990 Shanghai 2010 —————————- Piccadilly Circus, London 1948 Piccadilly Circus, London 2010 —————————- Centralia, Pennsylvania 1962 Centralia, Pennsylvania 2008 ————...
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-Budget Travel Open to the public, these 10 pools are our top picks for staying cool this summer—so dive right in! For more than a century, Tasman Sea waves have crashed against—and into—the Bondi Icebergs' pool in Bondi Beach, Australia. Locals who want to become Icebergs (i.e., earn their official stripes as winter swimmers) must log 75 swims here during the winter months. Berliners clamber aboard the Badeschiff (literally, "bathing ship"), which floats in Germany's S...
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-Yahoo! Travel Once in a while, you discover a town that has everything—great coffee, food with character, shop owners with purpose. Each year, the Budget Travel team celebrates these places with our "Coolest Small Towns in America" competition. It starts with a call to you—our readers—to nominate the most interesting towns you know with populations of less than 10,000. From there, our editorial team whittles the selections down to the three most promising contenders. It's then ...
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-Buzz Buzz Home While compiling this list we learned that some people are really devoted to emulating their favorite fictional characters. Like, really really devoted! After all, how much do you have to love Lord of the Rings to commit to living in a hobbit house? We're guessing an awful lot considering those low ceilings would surely make things difficult. Let's have a look at these real life imitations of houses you just might have grown up watching on TV! Pink overload! This could only ...
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-Yahoo! Real Estate Million-dollar-and-up homes are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. foreclosure market, with banks seizing some 335% more such properties last year than they did in 2007. "We're seeing evidence in our data that the high-end market is starting to get hit more," said Daren Blomquist of foreclosure watcher RealtyTrac.com. "I think high-end homeowners have a little more 'padding' to get through tough times if they experience a job loss or other trouble. But ...
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-Yahoo! News Now that summer is winding to a close, the real estate market is starting to slow down. The mad rush of the spring selling season has faded into memory, and real estate agents can start to see their families on Sundays again. It seems as good a time as any to take a look at the most expensive transactions that have taken place this year. So here we present our best stab at the five priciest home sales in the area, with separate lists for Maryland, Virginia, and D.C. transactions be...
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-CNBC The editors at TopTenRealEstateDeals.com have just released their 2011 list of The Top Ten Island Enclaves For Sale , complied with assistance from Realogics Sotheby's International Realty in Seattle. As Americans work longer hours and technology enables professionals to be ever more on-call, getaways and vacations are needed more than ever. Too bad vacation days have not increased along with employee availability. But now that so many professionals can work from home, who’s to say that...
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-Neatorama If you want a really roomy place, you can live in a 90-square foot apartment. But Luke Clark Tyler, an architect in Manhattan, figured that he could do just fine with a cozier place. His apartment, which includes furniture that he designed and built for it, is only 78 square feet in floor space. Tyler has a murphy bed, a couch, a microwave, a refrigerator, and a closet. Did I mention that Tyler works from home? That tiny space is also his office. 78 Square Foot Living Space appra...
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-Credit Sesame Home prices may be down to where they were in 2002 and interest rates at their lowest in 2011, at an average 4.39% for a 30-year fixed mortgage. But for many who make the jump into home ownership for the first time, properties in triple-mint condition with pruned yards and top-of-the-line appliances are still too pricey. So many first-time home buyers look to so-called fixer-uppers. A home that costs less than one in move-in condition and would require extensive renovations or ...
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-Credit Sesame Home prices may be down to where they were in 2002 and interest rates at their lowest in 2011, at an average 4.39% for a 30-year fixed mortgage. But for many who make the jump into home ownership for the first time, properties in triple-mint condition with pruned yards and top-of-the-line appliances are still too pricey. So many first-time home buyers look to so-called fixer-uppers. A home that costs less than one in move-in condition and would require extensive renovations or ...
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-Zillow Blog One Southern California community wants to make sure you don’t “lose that loving feeling” for a Tom Cruise blockbuster movie that put it on the map 25 years ago. That’s because the “Top Gun House,” a historic Oceanside, CA bungalow used as the home of fictional character “Charlie” (Kelly McGillis) and key rendezvous point with movie love interest “Maverick” (Cruise) will be saved and restored in a $209 million project approved by the Oceanside City Council. ...
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-Yahoo! This $175 million luxury cutting horse and cattle ranch is in a valley next to the town of Jackson, WY. Photo: Forbes Images Even as so many Americans struggle under the weight of their underwater mortgage loans, in the high-rolling world of billionaire real estate, 2011 has been a year of record-breaking uber expensive properties. In March billionaire investor Yuri Milner plunked down $100 million for a Silicon Valley estate, breaking previous purchase price records in the U....
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-Yahoo! Mushroom House, as it is known, features connected 'pods'. Photo: Rich Testa of RE/MAX Advance When Robert and Marguerite Antell told architect James Johnson they wanted to build a fun, artistic home, he handed the couple a coke bottle with a flowering sprig of Queen Anne’s lace. “This is your new home,” he explained. Forty years later the cream-colored pod that they built from his plans hit the market for $1.1 million in Pittsford, N.Y. The “Mushroom House,” as lo...
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-Yahoo! A fascinating photo project called "Looking Into the Past" is taking place over on Flickr. Jason Powell, who calls himself a cameraist rather than a photographer, takes pictures of present day scenes while holding up a photo of that exact spot from a moment in the location's history. One of Powell's favorites, this image of Thomas Circle show how "just about everything except for the statue and the church spire has changed." It takes your eyes a few seconds to...
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-MSN Real Estate What if every day was Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) at your house? Some homes have creepy pasts, and a few owners think it’s really cool to live among ghosts. (Read: Homes with sordid pasts: Creepy, but great bargains.) With the help of MSN Real Estate’s listings partner, Realtor.com, we tracked down homes where Halloween happens throughout the year. Kimball Castle Railroad baron Benjamin Ames Kimball spent two years (1897-1899) and the princely sum of $50,000 c...
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-Curbed DC For anyone thinking about dipping his or her toes into the real estate investment market, this Chesterfield, Va., house would be a good place to start. For the low price of $690,000, you get five acres of land with five different buildings. The main house has five bedrooms and four bathrooms (one is handicapped accessible) and totals 6,100 square feet. The other buildings on the property are a guest house, a three-car garage, a green house and a pool house (yes, there's a poo...
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-Yahoo! In May 2011, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bought a $7 million home in Palo Alto, Calif. He doesn’t move in for a few months, so the address remains a closely guarded secret until the current occupants move out. However, a few details have emerged -- the 5,000-square-foot home has five bedrooms, five bathrooms and a pool. It’s not quite on the same level as Bill Gates’ 50,050-square-foot Washington mansion, but it’s not a bad start for a man whose last few homes were rentals. Z...
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-Yahoo! Size is not everything, especially if you ask a small, but mighty movement of people who prefer 400 square feet of real estate over 4,000. People who choose to live in smaller-sized homes cut down on living costs and since the recession and housing bust, the trend is really catching on, says Kent Griswold author of TinyHouseBlog.com. These small homes can encompass a range of sizes, all the way down to an 84-sq ft home in Olympia, Wash. that was featured in NPR’s “tiny house movem...
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-Yahoo! Some builders have a specific vision in mind when designing a home. Whether they are recreating the home of someone powerful or replicating a house from TV or in the movies, some people take their inspiration seriously and make it into their everyday reality. In the following photos, including numerous examples suggested by Realtor.com, you’ll see homes inspired by people, politics, and pop culture—and because most of them are for sale, you’ll also get the stats such as price an...
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-The Cool Hunter Typically, we focus on unique and visually stunning buildings, but there are many structures in nature that take your breath away… Preachers Rock Preikestolen, Norway Blue Caves Zakynthos Island, Greece Skaftafeli Iceland Plitvice Lakes Croatia Crystalline Turquoise Lake Jiuzhaigou National Park, China Four Seasons Hotel Bora Bora Ice skating on Paterswoldse Meer a lake just South of the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Marble Caves Chile Chico, ...
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-Travel and Leisure If the Eiffel Tower were done up with giant dime-store Christmas ornaments—shiny, glowing spheres—it might rival the Oriental Pearl Television Tower for eccentricity. Eleven habitable disco balls bulge out of Shanghai’s 1,535-foot-tall needle, which also includes a “space hotel” and a (perhaps inevitable) revolving restaurant. When it comes to weird buildings, this landmark is in a class by itself. Between all the bubbly novelties that went up in pre-Olympics Bei...
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-Yahoo! Real Estate The innovative 'Shelf-pod' house in Osaka, Japan can hold 10 tons of books. Photo: Kazuya Morita Architecture Studio Floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall shelving defines a compact, 557-square-foot home in Osaka prefecture, Japan, designed by Japanese Architect Kazuya Morita. Designed for a young historian with an extensive book collection in Islamic history, Morita designed the house with interlocking laminated pine boards that slot together to form a lattice of tower...
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-Zillow Blog Living close to a body of water has its share of real estate perks — water views, waterfront properties, private beaches, and personal boat launches are a few top-of-mind examples. One type of real estate that ultimately takes advantage of water, however, is the floating home. Perhaps the most popular floating home was the one used in the hit movie, “Sleepless in Seattle,” starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Not to be confused with a house boat — which is mobile and ca...
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-Yahoo! Real Estate While dome homes may be odd-looking to some people, to a growing set of home buyers, they are now the only way to go. According to Dennis Johnson of Natural Space Domes in Minnesota, the housing crisis and recent devastating tornadoes have increased awareness and interest in building, or buying dome homes. “We’ve had domes go through hurricanes,” Johnson said. “The three domes by New Orleans, had no damage around them at all even though the trees were decimated. ...
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-CrookedBrains This Upside Down House is build by Daniel Czapiewski, Polish businessman in tiny Polish village of Szymbark. Usually, his company builds homes in 3 weeks but this one took 114 days because the workers were confused with structural design. Its an artistic statement about current state of the world. Apart from this the builders lavished attention on every last detail & after the construction of the house they decorated & fitted it out to the highest specifications. ...
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-Luxury Insider The Lotus Villa in Bali gives new meaning to 'living in a glass house'. The property fuses contemporary aesthetics with traditional finesse A private lane lined with a stone-carved wall and lush foliage leads to this modern villa near Ubud. The 600 sqm glass-rich structure is framed by overlapping reflection pools and blends contemporary materials with traditional Balinese thatched roofing. The layout features a total of six pavilions, including separate master and guest room...
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