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Real Estate porn! What is your present fave house/apartment/residence?

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tsarstepan
 
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Fri 2 Oct, 2015 09:36 am
@ossobuco,
I may or may not have forgotten about that High Line high rise but stumbled onto the article this morning. Love Hadid's alienesque design sensibilities.
ossobuco
 
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Fri 2 Oct, 2015 11:08 am
@tsarstepan,
I don't mine her alienesque sensibility - I think it was the size and displacement issues that bothered me about the Tokyo design.

On the Clooney and Alamuddin house, I looked at the slide show again and it wasn't the house itself that bothered me, but the interior decor, well fixable by them. Plus that's not all that bad either, it was me thinking "meh".
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Olivier5
 
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Sat 3 Oct, 2015 01:05 am
@ossobuco,
Quote:
overdone on purpose


"It is like making love in a confessional with a prostitute dressed in a prelate’s liturgical robes reciting Baudelaire while ten electronic organs reproduce the Well-Tempered Clavier played by Scriabin."

-- Umberto Eco on Hearst’s Castle
ossobuco
 
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Sat 3 Oct, 2015 01:42 am
@Olivier5,
Ah, so right..
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tsarstepan
 
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Thu 22 Oct, 2015 12:41 pm
http://i60.tinypic.com/vfffb6.jpg
Inside The Empty 1960s TWA Building
ossobuco
 
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Thu 22 Oct, 2015 12:52 pm
@tsarstepan,
Hmmm, I might have had dinner in there once - I'll have to look around about the building. Not in that room, anyway, or I don't remember it looking like that.
ossobuco
 
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Thu 22 Oct, 2015 01:29 pm
@ossobuco,
I was wrong.. it was the Pan Am Building. I'd been on a short trip in '69, after my father died, to take my mother to see NY and Boston; that was a bit of a debacle and wake up, in that her health was beginning to fail, and she didn't want to go see anything, the beginnings of what would become alzheimers. One evening though, a childhood friend from when we had lived there in NY and her husband took me out to dinner, thus this memory, mostly sad.

http://www.panam.org/images/igallery/resized/4401-4500/View_of_Pan_Am_Building_from_Park_Avenue-4437-900-600-100.jpg
Now Met Life..
tsarstepan
 
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Thu 22 Oct, 2015 01:35 pm
@ossobuco,
My firm had its annual Christmas party there last year (in one of their conference rooms). Kind of unexpectedly shoddy. I prefer the Yale Club (with its piano and great outdoor deck even for December).
ossobuco
 
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Thu 22 Oct, 2015 01:58 pm
@tsarstepan,
I looked around - the Yale Club terrace is in this link..

http://www.yaleclubnyc.org/dining/44th-and-terrace
tsarstepan
 
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Wed 28 Oct, 2015 06:40 am
@ossobuco,
http://i63.tinypic.com/25gwihd.jpg
http://gothamist.com/2015/10/27/greepoint_landing_towers.php#photo-3
tsarstepan
 
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Thu 29 Oct, 2015 06:03 am
@tsarstepan,
http://i68.tinypic.com/16hogfl.jpg
And now for something completely derelict!
djjd62
 
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Thu 29 Oct, 2015 06:13 am
https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash2/v/t1.0-9/10710569_10154723846205137_2203448035989047865_n.jpg?oh=86f43e7025037be5dd6debaa887e0ee1&oe=56BE9DE0
tsarstepan
 
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Thu 29 Oct, 2015 07:17 am
@djjd62,
I love how the lawn is completely immaculate. Laughing
saab
 
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Thu 29 Oct, 2015 09:00 am
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/56/42/6c/56426cb76e2a1b90dcf4137f15c84c9d.jpg

This probably wonderful home has been empty since 1987
tsarstepan
 
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Thu 29 Oct, 2015 09:12 am
@saab,
Why hasn't anyone completely looted the library? There must be some great treasures there.
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ossobuco
 
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Thu 29 Oct, 2015 09:43 am
@tsarstepan,
Ouch!
tsarstepan
 
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Mon 2 Nov, 2015 02:57 pm
@ossobuco,
Bizarre brutalist and experimental Soviet bus stops
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ossobuco
 
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Mon 2 Nov, 2015 05:33 pm
@tsarstepan,
good catch, Tsar, re the lawn.
tsarstepan
 
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Mon 16 Nov, 2015 07:21 am
@ossobuco,
http://i66.tinypic.com/fwnnrr.jpg
http://inhabitat.com/hildendiazs-forms-in-nature-chandelier-transforms-rooms-into-fairytale-landscapes/forms-in-nature-chandelier/
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saab
 
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Sat 21 Nov, 2015 10:42 am
http://vision.se/contentassets/058f3d79e7744c839f88b2dc120bcf0a/overvaning.jpg
Christmas eve 1910 Marten Person and his wife turned the key in their home and walked across the lawn to their new house - a copy of an American house his wife had seen a picture of.
The old house has been locked for 100 years and is now opened up.They left everything behind. They only wanted new things.
http://gfx.aftonbladet-cdn.se/image/21080880/540/widescreen/8a2f7c81cbd12/24HUS12.jpg

 

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