TRIBECA LOFT MANSION – YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE YOUR EYES!

 

This amazing loft mansion in Tribeca, New York will blow your mind!. set over six stories and at a total of 30,000 square feet of living. The home built in 1862 has been completely guttered and redesigned so beautifully whilst retaining many original features.

The building features an owner’s penthouse (approx. 11,000 square feet of living space) on the 4th, 5th and 6th floors with an extraordinary, fully landscaped roofdeck and terrace (2,775 square feet). This Penthouse also comes with a private gym and half basketball court in the basement (2,650square feet). The property generates substantial rental income from two floors of meticulouslyrenovated rental units (2nd and 3rd floor, 4000 square feet each) that if desired can be delivered vacant, and a high end showroom on the ground/retail floor with a half basement (7,750 square feet). This is an entirely unique opportunity to purchase an elegant and classic loft building in triple mint condition that is also suitable for a condominium conversion: retain the penthouse and sell the remaining units.

This fabulous loft mansion is listed for sale at $49,500,000, from here.

CASA VALE DO LOBO – ARQUI+

Yeah this is actually for real!. This rather spectacular home in Southern Portugal by Arqui+  features what can only be described as the most amazing pool ever overlooking a golf course!.

WILEY HOUSE – ROGER FARRIS + PARTNERS

 

Actually cannot believe this house. So in love!. Roger Farris + Partners have completed the expansion of the Wiley house. The home was originally designed by one of the best architects the world has ever seen Philip Johnson in 1952-3.

DREAM HOME NO.9

It is totally overdue that we did a DREAM HOME post, so…. here it is Ravine House by KPMB Architects

Dream Home No.8

This is Dream Home No.8. Designed by one of our favourites Stephen Jolson who designed this as his practical family home and Architectural Studio. The factory is located in Grattan Gardens Community in Melbourne. We just love how Jolson has transformed this old confectionary factory into a suitable family environment and using the other part of the factory as his office is brilliant. Oh how we heart this!!!

www.jolson.com.au

Dream Home No.7

This stunning loft in New York is our Dream Home No.7. Owned by Natalya and Eugene Kashper, The loft is in Soho and took over a year to renovate. Natalya is one of the three architects who formed DUB Studios, a young practice with offices in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. So after Ms. Kashper and her husband, Eugene, an entrepreneur bought the property for $6.9 million in 2006, she naturally appointed herself the principal designer.

Dream Home no.6

Haven’t done a dream home in a while. This is no.6. Designed by Kubota Architect Atelier.

Dream Home no.5

photo © Toshiyuki Yano

Its that time again. This is our dream home no.5. Designed by one of our favourites Suppose Design Office for a clinic director in Japan. The house is quite spacious for Japanese standards 171 squares. The bathrooms, study and kitchen have all been stratigically place around the perimeter so that they form a buffer to the living and bedroom areas. Great use of skylights and internal courtyards are used so that the outside of the home is completely window free. Totally in love with this!!!

more info @ www.suppose.jp

Dream Home no.4

Photos by:Ken’ichi Suzuki

This fantastic home in Shizuoka, Japan, designed by Mount Fuji Architects Studio is our dream home no.4. What an amazingly simple idea. It does help that the view and location are brilliant. We love how the house takes on a dark tunnel like feel on its lower levels and the use of a beautiful grey/white stone for cladding and flooring adds a starck lightness to the top level. So seamless. We are in love!!  
 

via: ArchDaily

Dream Home no.3

 

This house is one of our favourites by Suppose Design Office in Japan

 text by Marcia Argyriaades for Yatzer

Otake House is located in the western region of Hiroshima in Otake, Japan. This passive solar design house is constructed on a high plateau that neighbors with Kamei Park of the Kamei Castle Ruins.  With specific orientation of the eastern and western facades to meet the requirements of a passive solar design, the southern façade overlooks an industrial region and a scenic mountain range, whereas the northern façade has an incredible view, especially at night, of the Seto Inland Sea and Miyajima. Suppose Design Office designed a house which would take full advantage of the two contrasting scenes; like the contrasting black and white motif in this house!

The design of passive solar buildings aims at maintaining interior thermal comfort throughout the sun’s daily and annual cycles while at the same time it reduces the requirement for active heating and cooling systems.   Passive solar building design is just a part of green building design, and does not include active systems such as mechanical ventilation.  However, the ability to achieve these goals simultaneously is primarily dependent on the seasonal variations in the sun’s path throughout the day.  This occurs as a result of the inclination of the earth’s axis of rotation in relation to its orbit. The sun path is unique for any given latitude. Generally the sun will appear to rise in the east and set in the west.  Otake House is designed in such a way where the eastern and western facades take full advantage of the sun; in plain “Yatzer” the sun’s rays hit the windows in winter when the sun is low on the horizon, but they don’t during the summer when the sun is high in the sky.  Therefore, the house is hot in the winter and comparatively cool in the summer!

for more info www.yatzer.com or www.suppose.jp