http://gizmodo.com/5930185/this-emergency-pop+up-shelter-is-also-the-perfect-bachelor-pad
Mayor Bloomberg's idea of a single apartment in New York City..
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Six million dollar steal in Malibu, aka The BU
Home Architecture Malibu Bridge House With Luxurious Features Up For Sale
Malibu Bridge House With Luxurious Features Up For Sale
Looking luxuriously secluded, the glamorous Bridge House
in Malibu, California, was designed to capture stunning views of the
city and ocean from high on a hillside, at the end of a gated
cul-de-sac. With living spaces spreading over 7,000 square feet, this
Malibu mansion is the result of creative thinking underwent by
medium-sized Malibu-based Sorensen Architects.
The design studio managed to create an inspiring delimitation between
the private and social areas of the house, ensuring that privacy and
entertainment meet in this fantastic luxury residence. Four bedrooms and
six bathrooms, alongside a massage room and gym, prove to be the
perfect spaces for a comforting, relaxing lifestyle. The swimming pool
and sundeck invite inhabitants outside, where unobstructed views merge
with challenging surroundings to shape an exiting living experience.
Available for $ 6,350,000, the Bridge House sure looks like a collection of residences, don’t you think?
Monday, June 4, 2012
Shanghai Achitectural Dragon...
Borrowing the shape of the long, twisting bodies of China's iconic
dragons, "Sity" is a building concept we're still trying to wrap our
heads around. It's designed to snake through a swathe of Shanghai and
includes a man-made river and park underneath it.
While the structure looks impossible to navigate, the designers have actually put some thought into how you could live and work in this thing, too.
Sity's spiraling structure sees it intersect the ground at several
points. It's at these junctions that pedestrians can enter, and the
structure is also joined to Shanghai by a subway line, river vessels and
a grid of roads.
So, what happens once you're inside? It's a little hard to
picture, but the plans call for "internal vertical/horizontal
transport," which we take to mean elevators and walkways. The structure
is mixed-use, and would include living and work, as well as public
spaces and recreation areas. In the gallery online get a better sense of its scale: people
are tiny and stick-like and boats look like toys. According to Architizer, it's supposed to stand some 60 stories tall, which would make Sity absolutely massive.
Via Yanko Design and Architizer
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Its good to be Johnny Depp
Saturday, January 28, 2012
HUD homes
There's a HUD house around the corner from me, and frankly, that's the first one I've ever seen. Its a bomb, of course, as in you huff and you puff and you can blow the house down, but still, I wanted to know the price, and the terms, and the qualifications. Do you think anybody bothered to return my call?
To be continued....
Homeowner assistance program is expanded
Saturday, January 28, 2012
The Obama administration, seeking to help more homeowners lower their interest rates and shed mortgage debt, will relax the rules on a federal loan-modification program and triple its incentives to banks.
The revised Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, also would pay Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive debt on homes that have lost value. The government-owned companies, citing cost, don’t reduce principal, a policy that has limited HAMP’s reach because they own or guarantee nearly half of U.S. home loans. About 900,000 borrowers have successfully used the lifeline to refinance, fewer than the 4 million borrowers HAMP — which pays mortgage servicers and investors for successfully modifying loans — was expected to reach.
Friday’s program changes are separate from a new refinancing plan that President Barack Obama promised to deliver in his State of the Union speech Tuesday.
Whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac accept the administration offer is up to Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which is charged with minimizing losses to the companies and to taxpayers. DeMarco said he would analyze the potential costs and benefits of participating in HAMP’s principal write-down effort.
The HAMP expansion, called HAMP Tier 2, triples incentives paid to banks that reduce mortgage principal, to a maximum of 63 cents for every dollar of debt forgiven. Investors who rent out their properties would be eligible to refinance under the new rules. The deadline for applying for a HAMP loan modification is extended for a year, to the end of 2013.
The revised Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, also would pay Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive debt on homes that have lost value. The government-owned companies, citing cost, don’t reduce principal, a policy that has limited HAMP’s reach because they own or guarantee nearly half of U.S. home loans. About 900,000 borrowers have successfully used the lifeline to refinance, fewer than the 4 million borrowers HAMP — which pays mortgage servicers and investors for successfully modifying loans — was expected to reach.
Friday’s program changes are separate from a new refinancing plan that President Barack Obama promised to deliver in his State of the Union speech Tuesday.
Whether Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac accept the administration offer is up to Edward DeMarco, acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which is charged with minimizing losses to the companies and to taxpayers. DeMarco said he would analyze the potential costs and benefits of participating in HAMP’s principal write-down effort.
The HAMP expansion, called HAMP Tier 2, triples incentives paid to banks that reduce mortgage principal, to a maximum of 63 cents for every dollar of debt forgiven. Investors who rent out their properties would be eligible to refinance under the new rules. The deadline for applying for a HAMP loan modification is extended for a year, to the end of 2013.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
http://inhabitat.com/artist-victor-moore-builds-an-incredible-junk-castle-for-just-500/junk-castle/?extend=1
Perched atop a defunct rock quarry in Washington state, the "Junk Castle" is an ornate abode that was built completely out of salvaged materials for just $500. Created by high school teacher, writer and artist Victor Moore for his 1970 MFA thesis assemblage sculpture, the castle is made from pieces found at a local junkyard and around the site itself. Read on for a closer look at this fascinating recycled building!
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