Celebrity Homes & Famous Houses / Gardens / Streets

"No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave." - Mark Twain.

"It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate. - Donald Trump.

PROPERTY is any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of persons. Depending on the nature of the property, an owner of property has the right to consume, sell, rent, mortgage, transfer, exchange or destroy his or her property, and/or to exclude others from doing these things. Important widely-recognized types of property include real property (land), personal property (physical possessions belonging to a person), private property (property owned by legal persons or business entities), public property (state owned or publicly owned and available possessions) and intellectual property (exclusive rights over artistic creations, inventions, etc.), although the latter is not always as widely recognized or enforced. A title, or a right of ownership, is associated with property that establishes the relation between the goods/services and other persons, assuring the owner the right to dispense with the property in a manner he or she sees fit. Some philosophers assert that property rights arise from social convention. Others find origins for them in morality or natural law.

Originally, a LANDMARK literally meant a geographic feature used by explorers and others to find their way back or through an area. In modern usage, a landmark includes anything that is easily recognizable, such as a monument, building, or other structure. In American English it is the main term used to designate places that might be of interest to tourists due to notable physical features or historical significance.

A TROPHY PROPERTY is a real estate term sometimes used to describe the top 2% of properties within a given subcategory, although the term is typically used in reference to residences, architecturally or historically preserved properties, high-amenity natural land and properties with spectacular views or other extraordinary amenities.

A GREAT HOUSE is a large and stately residence; the term encompasses different styles of dwelling in different countries. The name refers to the makeup of the household rather than to any particular architectural style. It particularly refers to large households of times past in Anglophone countries (especially those of the turn of the 20th century, i.e., the late Victorian or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom and the Gilded Age in the United States), such as the English country house, the "stately homes of England" and the homes of various "millionaires' row" (or "millionaires' mile") in some U.S. cities such as Newport, Rhode Island, with luxurious appointments and great retinues of indoor and outdoor staff. By some reports, the summer homes of the wealthy at Newport averaged four servants per family member. There was often an elaborate hierarchy among staff, domestic workers in particular.

A TOWNHOUSE, or town house, is a type of medium-density housing in cities, usually but not necessarily terraced (row housing) or semi-detached. A modern town house is often one with a small footprint on multiple floors. The term originally referred to the city residence of a member of the nobility, as opposed to their country seat.

An English COUNTRY HOUSE is a large house or mansion in the English countryside. Such houses were often owned by individuals who also owned a city house. This allowed them to spend time in the country and in the city—hence, for these people, the term distinguished between town and country. However, the term also encompasses houses that were, and often still are, the full-time residence for the landed gentry.

A GARDEN is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the display, cultivation, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The garden can incorporate both natural and man-made materials. The most common form today is known as a residential garden, but the term garden has traditionally been a more general one. Western gardens are almost universally based on plants, with garden often signifying a shortened form of botanical garden.

A PARK is an area of open space provided for recreational use. It can be in its natural or semi-natural state, or planted, and is set aside for human enjoyment or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. It may consist of rocks, soil, water, flora and fauna and grass areas, but may also contain buildings and other artifacts such as play grounds. Many natural parks are protected by law.

• $1bn for empty space: the saga of the world's most valuable real estate - "Skepticism abounds over 157-acre LA-area lot once linked to Brad Pitt & Iran’s shah, amid questions over sellers’ motivations."
• 7 Leading Architects Defend the World’s Most Hated Buildings - The New York Times.
• 8 houses built in impossible places - "Architecture can flirt with nature in expressive yet subtle ways. The idea in architecture is often to harmonize, not dominate, the landscapes. This can prove a challenge, however, when faced with steep slopes, cliff faces and mountainsides."
• 10 Homes Isn’t Enough: Which Billionaires Own The Most Properties - "Take a peek into the sprawling real estate portfolios of America’s richest people." Forbes.
• 10 of the biggest house myths debunked - "High ceilings aren’t always best - and location isn’t everything."
• 10 top ugly buildings & monuments - Reuters.
• 17 incredible buildings opening in 2018 - The Telegraph.
• 20 Tallest buildings in Monaco - "Here you see the 20 tallest buildings of Monaco. This list only regards multi-story buildings."
• 21 of London's greatest lost buildings - The Telegraph.
• 21 of the world’s most stunning castles - "'What makes a castle a castle is that it combines the functions of defense and dwelling - it’s a fortification and a stately home rolled into one. Creating a building which is both comfortable and defensible is difficult. The ingenious ways in which castle-designers reconciled this balance is always intriguing.' Although we normally associate castles with European history, it’s actually an architectural form found around the world - in nations as varied as Japan and India, Morocco and Mexico."
• 25 incredible skyscrapers of the future - The Telegraph.
• 25 Largest Homes In The United States - Complex.
• 40% of the Buildings in Manhattan Could Not Be Built Today - The New York Times.
• 100 tallest completed buildings in the world - The Skyscraper Center.
• 100s of Dubai's tallest buildings are 'infernos waiting to happen' - The Telegraph.
• $100 Million Resort-Like Estate Is The New Jewel Of Bel Air - "Majestically perched atop a canyon with unobstructed views of Bel Air, this newly built, hillside compound dubbed 'UNICA' spans over 40,000 square feet and completely redefines ultra-luxury living."
• $185 million mansion at the St. Moritz ski resort in Switzerland - "Seven-floor home located at the St. Moritz ski resort in Switzerland. At $185 million, it's the most expensive home on the market in Switzerland at the moment. The floor-to-ceiling windows are 35 feet high and reveal a sweeping view of the Swiss Alps."
• 2015 Global Luxury Residential Real Estate Report - Sotheby's International Realty.
• 2015 Property Prices Index - Numbeo.
• A look inside George & Amal Clooney’s stunning homes - in pictures - "The actor has built up quite the stunning property portfolio since the start of his career. He has residences across the globe and we are taking a look inside some of George’s stunning homes."
• A Worrisome Pileup of $100 Million Homes - The New York Times.
• America's $100 Million Homes - Forbes.
• America's Most Expensive ZIP Codes - Forbes.
• Apple Park valued at over $4 billion, making it one of the world’s most expensive buildings - "Apple’s futuristic spaceship campus in Cupertino has been valued at over $4 billion, according to the Santa Clara County assessor. This valuation comes as Apple has pushed back against property valuations in the past in an effort to avoid property tax."
• Apple’s New Campus: A Look Inside the Mothership - Wired.
• billionaire addresses - "Mansions & Home Addresses of Billionaires, Millionaires, and CEO's."
• Are these the world's ugliest buildings? - The Telegraph.
• Arne Hasselqvist - "Architect Created Celebrity Homes."
• Aston Martin Unveils First Luxury Home In Tokyo, Complete With An Automotive Gallery - "The marque is bringing its design prowess to Tokyo, Japan with the reveal of No. 001 Minami Aoyama, an ultra-luxe home in the sought-after area of Omotesando in Minami Aoyama that was designed in collaboration with Japanese real estate leader Vibroa. For many luxury car companies, designing interiors is similar to designing a car in the sense that these projects prioritize the finest craftsmanship and design. No. 001 Minami Aoyama is no different."
• Belgravia mansion set to become London's first £300 million home - "One of Qatar's richest men has sought planning permission to transform London's Forbes House."
• Billionaire bunkers: How the 1% are preparing for the apocalypse - "How billionaires are preparing for the apocalypse."
• Brokedown Palaces - Forbes.
• Boulevard - often abbreviated Blvd, is a type of large road, usually running through a city. These roads often replaced obsolete fortifications, hence the name. In modern American usage it often means a wide, multi-lane arterial thoroughfare, divided with a median down the centre, and perhaps with roadways along each side designed as slow travel and parking lanes and for bicycle and pedestrian usage, often with an above-average quality of landscaping and scenery.
• Castle doctrine - legal doctrine that designates a person's abode or any legally occupied place – e.g., a vehicle or workplace, as a place in which that person has protections and immunities permitting him or her, in certain circumstances, to use force (up to and including deadly force) to defend himself or herself against an intruder, free from legal prosecution for the consequences of the force used.
• Castle once deemed too expensive for Queen Victoria goes on the market for £1m – the same price as a two-bed London council flat - Daily Mail.
• CASTLES FOR SALE
• CASTLES OF THE WORLD
• Castles Seek Knights in Shining Armor - Poland is offering investors the chance to become lords of their own manors at knockdown prices in a bid to rescue hundreds of the aristocratic mansions that flourished in its pre-communist past.
• Castlesworld.com - "Brings the world of castles closer to you. Castles are some of the most popular historic sites on the planet. We have designed our site to give a smooth and simple user experience, with you in the central part of the action."
• ChÂteauesque - revival architectural style based on the French Renaissance architecture of the monumental French country houses (châteaux) built in the Loire Valley from the late fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century. The style was popularized in the United States by Richard Morris Hunt. Hunt, the first American architect to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, designed residences, including those for the Vanderbilt family, during the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s.
• China skyscraper wobble due to ‘winds, rail lines & warmer weather’ - "Preliminary verdict in Shenzhen suggests combination of factors led to shaking, and finds no safety problems."
• Cities from the sea: the true cost of reclaimed land - The Guardian.
• co-op | Housing cooperative - legal entity, usually a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure. Housing cooperatives are a distinctive form of home ownership that have many characteristics that differ from other residential arrangements such as single family ownership, condominiums and renting.
• Costa Rica Million Dollar Homes - The Luxury Real Estate Boutique of Costa Rica.
• Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat | CTBUH - since 1969. Tall Building Information & Resources.
• Denmark's unique 300-year-old-homes of the future - "On Læsø, houses are thatched with thick, heavy bundles of silvery seaweed that have the potential to be a contemporary building material around the world."
• DOMESDAY BOOK - the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086.
• Dramatic photos cast Europe’s ancient castles in a new light - "For centuries, medieval castles - hulking, isolated triumphs of masonry - have held a special place in the Western imagination, evoking at once a sense of history, fantasy, war and romance. They are the perennial backdrops for period dramas and children’s books, travel brochures and fashion spreads. But in his latest book, 'Stone Age: Ancient Castles of Europe,' writer and photographer Frédéric Chaubin set out to disrupt the familiar stereotypes, using prose and photography to link the medieval with the Modernist."
• Dubai Developer Emaar Plans New ‘World’s Tallest’ Tower
• End of an Era for the Flatiron Building - "With the departure of its longtime tenant, the building is joining a growing list of classic New York skyscrapers that are reinventing themselves."
• Fallingwater House - "The documentary film about one of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest masterpieces. In 1935, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a country house for the Kaufmann family over a small stream in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 43 miles (69 km) southeast of Pittsburgh, built in 1936 -1939." YouTube 27:07.
• Gated community - form of residential community or housing estate containing strictly controlled entrances for pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles, and often characterized by a closed perimeter of walls and fences.
• GLOBAL PROPERTY GUIDE - site for residential property investors who want to buy houses or apartments in other countries.
• Golden Mile - list of geographical features called the "Golden Mile".
• Golden Triangle - list of geographical features called the "Golden Triangle".
• Grace and favour home - residential property owned by a monarch by virtue of his or her position as head of state and leased rent-free to persons as part of an employment package or in gratitude for past services rendered.
• great buildings - "Architecture Week." Presenting one thousand selected classics of world architecture, and hundreds of their great designers, in the leading general architecture reference site.
• Great house - large and stately residence; the term encompasses different styles of dwelling in different countries.
• House of Palestine: the architectural wonder built by a West Bank oil tycoon - "The richest man in the occupied territories has indulged his passion for Palladio – by creating a replica of his Villa Rotunda and filling it with priceless treasures."
• House sitting - the practice whereby a landlord (or "homeowner"), leaving their house for a period of time, entrusts it to one or more "house-sitters", who by a mutual agreement are entitled to live there rent-free in exchange for assuming responsibilities such as taking care of the homeowner's pets, performing general maintenance (including pools, lawns, air-conditioning systems etc.), keeping trespassers off the property, readdressing the mail, and in general, making sure that everything runs smoothly just as if the owner was at home.
• Household staff - practices vary depending on the size of the household and the preference of the employers, but in general the staff is divided into departments run by the butler, cook and housekeeper.
• How big is Mitt Romney’s California house? Here, compare it to yours. - The Washington Post.
• How one country dominates world's 10 tallest buildings list - "10 tallest buildings in the world."
• ICEBERG HOUSE - definition & explanation.
• Inside the spectacular home Frank Gehry built for himself - "The house a top architect designed for himself."
• Inside the world's best overwater villa - The Telegraph.
• It’s Time for Fancy Apartments to Offer Balconies for Drone landings - Wired.
• King Charles III’s $25 Billion Real Estate Empire - "The new British monarch lords over seven palaces, 10 castles, 12 homes, 56 cottages, and 14 ancient ruins where he can hang up his crown."
• Larry Page's dream of building a 'Google Island' could be coming true - The Verge.
• List of largest houses in the United States - Wikipedia.
• Location, location, location: how the world is tackling issue of empty homes - The Guardian.
• London At Risk Of Becoming A ‘Ghetto Of Wealth’ - "London has been labelled an 'epicentre of the elites' and a 'ghetto of wealth' as social mobility in the U.K. capital plummets to new lows."
• London’s Best & Most Secretive Address - "The longstanding rules governing life at Albany - the stately Georgian pile situated surprisingly, if conveniently, in the heart of Piccadilly - are mercifully straightforward: no pets, no children, no whistling, no noise and absolutely no publicity. Photographers have found themselves escorted from the premises, London’s oldest block of flats and one of its most exclusive addresses, for snapping off a frame of the interior courtyard. Residents who are deemed indiscreet risk a ritual scourging by the trustees."
• Luxury Vineyard Homes & Wineries for Sale - Christie's International Real Estate - "Owning a vineyard is more than a lifestyle or a business, it's a labor of love, a daily encounter with the earth and the elements."
• Mark Zuckerberg is building one of the biggest homes in US history - "$270M Hawaiian compound will include its own village and huge underground bunker."
• Mike Tyson's stunning houses throughout career - "As Mike Tyson rose through the ranks over the years to become heavyweight champion of the world, the boxing legend bought and sold some stunning homes. From a 21-bed Connecticut mansion to Ohio home which is now a church."
• Millionaires' Mile - list of the exclusive residential neighborhoods of various cities called the "Millionaire's Mile".
• MOBILE WEALTHY RESIDENCY INDEX - see the 11 preferred jurisdictions.
• Mona Lisa's Tuscan villa on sale for £16 million - The Telegraph.
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• Monaco builds into the Med to house new throng of super-rich - The Guardian.
• Monaco Is the World’s Most Expensive Place to Buy Luxury Homes - Bloomberg.
• MONSTER BILLIONAIRE MANSIONS - Forbes.
• MONTE-CARLO'S "CARRÉ D'OR" - Place du Casino and the neighbouring roads (Avenue Monte-Carlo, Avenue des Beaux Arts, Allées Lumières).
• Most Expensive Home Sales in U.S. History - Forbes.
• New Trophy Mansions of The Forbes 400 - Forbes.
• New York Above 800 Feet - The New York Times.
• New York Builders Paying Huge Buyouts to Tenants in Their Way - The New York Times.
• New York City is sinking due to weight of its skyscrapers, new research finds - "City is sinking approximately 1-2mm each year on average, worsening effects of sea level rise and flooding threat."
• New York’s First-Ever Penthouse: A 54-Room Upper East Side Mansion Built for a Cereal Heiress - 6sqft.
• Notting Hill of Ibiza - The Telegraph.
• Off-the-grid homes - are autonomous; they do not rely on municipal water supply, sewer, natural gas, electrical power grid, or similar utility services. A true off-grid house is able to operate completely independently of all traditional public utility services.
• Palaces of Deposed Rulers, From Ukraine to Tunisia - National Geographic.
• Piano nobile - (Italian, "noble floor" or "noble level", also sometimes referred to by the corresponding French term, bel étage) is the principal floor of a large house, usually built in one of the styles of Classical Renaissance architecture. This floor contains the principal reception and bedrooms of the house.
• Princess Diana's St. Tropez Love Nest, Castle St. Therese, Is For Sale Again - Daily Mail Online.
• Reflecting pool - water feature found in gardens, parks, and at memorial sites. It usually consists of a shallow pool of water, undisturbed by fountain jets, for a reflective surface.
• Rich people who build ‘really fancy houses’ become ‘less happy’ - "Charlie Munger lived in the same home for 70 years."
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• Shifting horizons: How Monaco is extending into the sea - CNN Style.
• SIMON CONN - "Overseas Property & Finance Specialist." Can arrange residential mortgages in over 50 countries around the world.
• Stairway to heaven: Jimmy Page’s castle is his home - "The founder of Led Zeppelin shows off Tower House, his beloved Victorian castle in London."
• Take a tour of the Fifth Avenue, past & present! - The New York Public Library.
• teddy bear test & other challenges facing the rich who try to flee high-tax states - Los Angeles Times.
• the Houses of Parliament are falling down - The Guardian.
• The Most Expensive Buildings In The World - Business Insider.
• The problem of London towers - "What London's skyscrapers say about the City's worship of money."
• the richest of the rich and their island getaways – interactive - The Guardian.
• the subterranean secrets of London's super-rich - "Study exposes thousands of opulent basement schemes with cinemas, pools ... and a beach."
• The World's Most Expensive Cities For Luxury Real Estate - Forbes.
• Tuned Mass Dampers in Skyscrapers - "In many of the world’s tallest skyscrapers, there’s a secret device protecting the building and the people inside from strong motion due to wind and earthquakes. Did you know you can tune a skyscraper just like a guitar?"
• vanderbuilding - definition & explanation.
• Virtual Globetrotting - since 2005. "View amazing satellite imagery from across the globe. Celebrity homes, roadside attractions, landmarks, military and more!"
• What is all the property in the world worth? - The Telegraph.
• what will our growing megacities really look like? - The Guardian.
• What would Britain be worth if we put it on the market? - The Telegraph.
• World Reaches 100 Supertall Skyscrapers - Global Tall News.
• World's 12 most expensive cities - real estate, costs of living & working.
• world's 20 most expensive buildings - The Telegraph.
• world's 20 most urbanised places - The Telegraph.
• world's 20 tallest buildings - and the 1,000-metre monster that will soon break the record.
• World's most beautiful castles - CNN travel.
• world's most beautiful house - BBC.
• WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE BUILDING - Yongsan Landmark Tower (2016), Seoul, South Korea: US$3.45 billion.
• World’s Most Expensive Home? Another Bauble for a Saudi Prince - The New York Times.
• WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE SHOPPING LOCATIONS - survey by Cushman & Wakefield.
• world’s new largest office building is bigger than the Pentagon - "The Belgian city of Antwerp may be known as the world’s diamond trading hub, while most rough stones are mined in Russia or Africa. But some 150 miles north of Mumbai, India, lies a lesser-known gem capital: Surat, where around 90% of all the planet’s diamonds are cut. Now, the city in Gujarat state has a record-breaking building to house its mammoth industry. The newly-opened Surat Diamond Bourse is billed as a 'one-stop destination' for over 65,000 diamond professionals, including cutters, polishers and traders. Featuring a succession of nine rectangular structures spilling out from - and interconnected via - a central 'spine,' the sprawling 15-story complex has been built across more than 35 acres of land. The trading center’s architects say it comprises over 7.1 million square feet of floor space, which would mean it has surpassed the Pentagon as the world’s largest office building."
• world's tallest buildings - The Telegraph.
• world's tallest structures through history - The Telegraph.

10 Most Expensive Streets in the World

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• 10 MOST EXPENSIVE STREETS IN THE WORLD - survey by Wealth Bulletin.
• Altamount Road - Wikipedia.
• Avenue Montaigne - Wikipedia.
• Avenue Princesse Grace - Wikipedia.
• Credit crunch reaches world's most expensive streets - The Guardian.
• Fifth Avenue - Wikipedia.
• Kensington Palace Gardens - Wikipedia.
• LIST OF WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE STREETS BY CITY - commercial & residential streets.
• Take a tour of the Fifth Avenue, past & present! - The New York Public Library.
• Wolseley Road - Wikipedia.
• Avenue Princess Grace, Monte-Carlo, Monaco - US$190,000 per sq/m.
• Severn Road, The Peak, Hong Kong - US$121,000 per sq/m.
• Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY, U.S.A. - US$80,000 per sq/m.
• Kensington Palace Gardens, London, U.K. - US$77,000 per sq/m.
• Avenue Montaigne, Paris, France - US$54,000 per sq/m.
• Ostozhenka, Moscow, Russia - US$40,000 per sq/m.
• Via Suvretta, St. Moritz, Switzerland - US$38,000 per sq/m.
• Carolwood Drive, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. - US$30,000 per sq/m.
• Wolseley Road, Sydney, NSW, Australia - US$28,000 per sq/m.
• Altamount Road, Mumbai, India - US$25,000 per sq/m.

Famous Gardens & Parks

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• 5 terrifying plants that will probably give you nightmares - The Telegraph.
• 10 Of The World's Best Parks For Enjoying Spring Weather - Business Insider.
• A Lisbon Home With a Vertical Garden - The New York Times.
• A Secret Section of Central Park Reopens - The New York Times.
• AndrÉ Le NÔtre - (1613-1700). French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. Most notably, he was responsible for the design and construction of the park of the Palace of Versailles, and his work represents the height of the French formal garden style, or jardin À la franÇaise.
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• Anna Wintour’s Wild Garden - "A stroll through the editor’s romantic and meandering 40 acres - cultivated over the last 20 years by her friend, the landscape designer Miranda Brooks."
• Botanical garden - Wikipedia.
• Capability Brown's most amazing landscapes - The Telegraph.
• Capability Brown, the Master of the English Garden - The New York Times.
• CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW | Great Spring Show - garden show held each year on five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London, U.K. Perhaps the most famous gardening event in the world and part of London's summer social season. The Chelsea Flower Show has been held in the grounds of the Chelsea Hospital, London every year since 1913, apart from gaps during the two World Wars. It used to be Britain's largest flower show (it has now been overtaken by RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show), but is still the most prestigious.
• Chelsea Flower Show: 100 years in pictures - The Telegraph.
• Chelsea Flower Show: houses with the most incredible gardens - The Telegraph.
• Chelsea Flower Show 2016: Best in Show and the medal winners in pictures - The Telegraph.
• Chinese garden - Wikipedia.
• Conservatory - Wikipedia.
• English landscape garden - Wikipedia.
• Everything you need to know about Capability Brown - The Telegraph.
• Exotic gardens that will banish the winter blues - The Telegraph.
• Explore 'Capability' Brown's landscape gardens - National Trust.
• Frederick Law Olmsted - (1822-1903). American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture. Famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his senior partner Calvert Vaux, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City, the George Washington Vanderbilt II Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, as well as Elm Park (Worcester, Massachusetts), considered by many to be the first municipal park in America.
• French formal garden - also called jardin à la française.
• French landscape garden - Wikipedia.
• Garden - Wikipedia.
• Garden Bridge, London vs. Pier 55, New York: why do New York and London think so differently? - The Guardian.
• Gardening - Wikipedia.
• gardenvisit.com - "The garden landscape guide." With over 10,000 pages of text and 10,000 images.
• Grandi Giardini Italiani - "Discover the network of the most beautiful gardens created in Italy!"
• Greenhouse - Wikipedia.
• Hampton Court Palace Flower Show - the largest flower show in the world. The Show is held in early July, and run by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) at Hampton Court Palace in southwest London. The show features show gardens, floral marquees and pavilions, talks and demonstrations. Erected on the north and south sides of the Long Water in Hampton Court Park, it is the second major national show after the Chelsea Flower Show but has a different character, focusing more on environmental issues, growing your own food and vegetables and cookery, while also offering opportunities to buy gardening accessories, plants and flowers.
• Henry Hoare - (1705–1785), known as Henry the Magnificent, was an English banker and garden owner-designer. 'The first landscape gardener, who showed in a single work, genius of the highest order.'
• How a husband-and-wife duo salvaged West Dean gardens - The Telegraph.
• how Capability Brown transformed this green & pleasant land - "The 300th anniversary of ‘Capability’ Brown’s birth is the ideal time to hail the design and horticultural genius who reshaped far more than the contours of our national landscape."
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• Ian McEwan’s Enchanted Garden - "In the hills of southwest England, the writer and his wife, the novelist Annalena McAfee, have surrounded their home with untamed delight."
• Inside the 17th century Versailles vegetable garden - The Telegraph.
• Inside the new National Trust gardens - The Telegraph.
• Italian Renaissance garden - Wikipedia.
• Japan's cherry blossom season: Trip of a Lifetime - The Telegraph.
• Japanese garden - Wikipedia.
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• Joseph Paxton - (1803-1865). English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament, best known for designing The Crystal Palace. The 6th Duke of Devonshire offered the 20-year-old Paxton the position of Head gardener at Chatsworth, which was considered one of the finest landscaped gardens of the time. One of his first projects was to redesign the garden around the new north wing of the house and to set up a 'pinetum', a collection of conifers which developed into a 40-acre arboretum which still exists. In the process he became skilled in moving even mature trees. While at Chatsworth Gardens, he built enormous fountains: The Emperor Fountain in 1844 was twice the height of Nelson's Column, which required the creation of the Emperor Lake on the hill top above the gardens, and the excavation of 100,000 cubic yards of earth.
• Kitchen garden - Wikipedia.
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• Lachaume - since 1845. "Maître fleuriste since 1845, Lachaume has little changed since the time or Marcel Proust came daily to decorate his buttonhole with a fresh cattleya."
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• Lancelot 'Capability' Brown - (1716-1783). English landscape architect. He is remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener". He designed over 170 parks, many of which still endure.
• Landscape architecture - Wikipedia.
• List of botanical gardens - Wikipedia.
• List of gardens - Wikipedia.
• List of landscape gardens - Wikipedia.
• List of parks - Wikipedia.
• Mannerism - style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, lasting until about 1580 in Italy. Stylistically, Mannerism encompasses a variety of approaches influenced by, and reacting to, the harmonious ideals associated with artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and early Michelangelo. Where High Renaissance art emphasizes proportion, balance, and ideal beauty, Mannerism exaggerates such qualities, often resulting in compositions that are asymmetrical or unnaturally elegant.
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• Maryon Park - urban public park located in Charlton in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, England, U.K. The park was the filming location of key scenes in Blowup (1966), a drama mystery-thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring David Hemmings, Sarah Miles and Vanessa Redgrave. The park is little changed since the making of the film.
• Moroccan Garden of One Man’s Dreams - The New York Times.
• National Cherry Blossom Festival - spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington.
• New York’s Secret Garden - The New York Times.
• Orangery - Wikipedia.
• Park - Wikipedia.
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• Pergola - garden feature forming a shaded walkway, passageway, or sitting area of vertical posts or pillars that usually support cross-beams and a sturdy open lattice, often upon which woody vines are trained.
• Plant Heritage - "Plant Heritage's (NCCPG's) mission is to conserve, grow, propagate, document and make available the amazing resource of cultivated plants that exists in the UK."
• Poland approves large-scale logging in Europe's last primeval forest - The Guardian.
• Reflecting pool - water feature found in gardens, parks, and at memorial sites. It usually consists of a shallow pool of water, undisturbed by fountain jets, for a reflective surface.
• Remarkable Gardens of France - Wikipedia.
• Rose garden - Wikipedia.
• six clever ways to keep cut flowers alive - The Telegraph.
• The best Chinese gardens to visit - The Telegraph.
• The Garden Villa - Aamer Architects.
• The How-on-Earth Garden - The New York Times.
• The Lost Gardens of Emily Dickinson - The New York Times.
• The secret's out on London's most underrated park - The Telegraph.
• Top 10 trees for gardens - "Can you identify them from their leaves?"
• Top 12 City Parks in the World - RatesToGo.
• Topiary - the horticultural practice of training live perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, perhaps geometric or fanciful.
• Watch the building of The Telegraph's Chelsea Flower Show garden from start to finish -The Telegraph.
• Water in view: the genius of Capability Brown - The Telegraph.
• World's Best Parks, According To TripAdvisor Users - The Huffington Post.
• World's Most Beautiful City Parks - Travel + Leisure.
• world's most romantic gardens - The Telegraph.
• World Naked Gardening Day: gardeners around the globe strip off - The Telegraph.
• Zen garden - aka Japanese rock garden.

Top 50 Famous Gardens & Parks

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• Alexander Garden - next to Palace Square & behind the Admiralty, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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• Biltmore Estate Gardens - 1 Lodge St, Asheville, North Carolina 28803, U.S.A.
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• Blenheim Palace Gardens - Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1PP, England, U.K.
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• Boboli Gardens - Giardino di Boboli, Piazza Pitti, 1, 50125 Florence, Italy. The Gardens, behind the Pitti Palace, the main seat of the Medici grand dukes of Tuscany at Florence, are some of the first and most familiar formal 16th-century Italian gardens. The mid-16th-century garden style, as it was developed here, incorporated longer axial developments, wide gravel avenues, a considerable "built" element of stone, the lavish employment of statuary and fountains, and a proliferation of detail, coordinated in semi-private and public spaces that were informed by classical accents: grottos, nympheums, garden temples and the like. The openness of the garden, with an expansive view of the city, was unconventional for its time.
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• Butchart Gardens - group of floral display gardens in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, Canada, located near Victoria on Vancouver Island. "The renown of the family owned gardens is widespread. Each year over a million bedding plants in some 900 varieties give you uninterrupted bloom from March through October. Almost a million people visit annually for spring’s colourful flowering bulbs; summer’s riot of colour, entertainment and Saturday Fireworks; fall’s russets and golds; the Magic of Christmas’ decorations; and winter’s peacefulness."
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• Castello di Vignanello - Vignanello, Viterbo, Italy. The history of Vignanello dates back to 853, when the Benedectine monks erected a citadel on the site. Ottavia Orsini, the wife of Ortensia's nephew, Marcantonio Marescotti, oversaw the creation of the wonderful Italian garden, to this day regarded as one of the most beautiful Italian parterres, at the centre of which one finds a huge basin surrounded by a balustrade: a perfectly rectangular space crossed by four avenues and subdivided into twelve aligned parterres, composed of mixed hedges of bay, laurel, and box.
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• Central Park - public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City. The park initially opened in 1857, on 778 acres (315 ha) of city-owned land (it is 840 acres today). Construction began the same year, continued during the American Civil War, and was completed in 1873. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States.
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• Chatsworth Garden - Derbyshire, England. Chatsworth's garden attracts around 300,000 visitors a year. It has a complex blend of different features from six different centuries and covers 105 acres (0.42 sq km). The garden is surrounded by a wall 1.75 miles (2.8 km) long. It sits on the eastern side of the valley of the Derwent River and blends into the landscape of the surrounding park, which covers 1,000 acres (4.0 sq km). The woods on the moors to the east of the valley form a backdrop to the garden. There is a staff of approximately 20 full-time gardeners.
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• Chinese garden - the Yuyuan Garden (Garden of Happiness or Garden of Peace) in Shanghai (created in 1559) shows all the elements of a classical Chinese garden – water, architecture, vegetation, and rocks.
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• Classical Gardens of Suzhou - classical Chinese garden design, which seeks to recreate natural landscapes in miniature, is nowhere better illustrated than in the nine gardens in the historic city of Suzhou. They are generally acknowledged to be masterpieces of the genre. Dating from the 11th-19th century, the gardens reflect the profound metaphysical importance of natural beauty in Chinese culture in their meticulous design.
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• Englischer Garten - large public park in the centre of Munich, Bavaria, stretching from the city centre to the northeastern city limits. It was created in 1789 by Sir Benjamin Thompson (1753–1814). Germany.
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• English landscape garden - of Stourhead, near Mere, Wiltshire, England.
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• Frederiksborg Castle Gardens - landscaped and tiered baroque garden with elegant fountains and parterres. The Museum of National History, Frederiksborg Castle, Rendelaggerbakken 3, DK-3400 Hillerød, Denmark.
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• French formal garden - of the Château de Villandry (Indre-et-Loire), France.
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• Gardens of the ChÂteau de Vaux-le-Vicomte - baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 km southeast of Paris in the Seine-et-Marne département of France. Designed by André Le Nôtre (1613-1700). French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France. Most notably, he was responsible for the design and construction of the park of the Palace of Versailles, and his work represents the height of the French formal garden style, or jardin À la franÇaise.
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• Garden of the Taj Mahal - Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India.
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• Gardens of the Alhambra - palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Andalusia, Spain. The park (Alameda de la Alhambra), which is overgrown with wildflowers and grass in the spring, was planted by the Moors with roses, oranges, and myrtles; its most characteristic feature, however, is the dense wood of English elms brought by the Duke of Wellington in 1812. The park has a multitude of nightingales and is usually filled with the sound of running water from several fountains and cascades.
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• Gardens of Versailles - occupy part of what was once the Domaine royal de Versailles, the royal demesne of the château of Versailles. Situated to the west of the palace, the gardens cover some 800 hectacres of land.
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• Golden Gate Park - located in San Francisco, California, is a large urban park consisting of 1,017 acres (411.6 ha) of public grounds. Configured as a rectangle, it is similar in shape but 20 percent larger than Central Park in New York, to which it is often compared. It is over three miles (4.8 km) long east to west, and about half a mile (0.8 km) north to south. U.S.A.
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• Green Animals Topiary Garden - "This small country estate in Portsmouth was purchased in 1872 by Thomas E. Brayton (1844-1939), Treasurer of the Union Cotton Manufacturing Company in Fall River, Massachusetts. It consisted of seven acres of land, a white clapboard summer residence, farm outbuildings, a pasture and a vegetable garden. Gardener Joseph Carreiro, superintendent of the property from 1905 to 1945, and his son-in-law, George Mendonca, superintendent until 1985, were responsible for creating the topiaries. There are more than 80 pieces of topiary throughout the gardens, including animals and birds, geometric figures and ornamental designs, sculpted from California privet, yew, and English boxwood."
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• Green Garden at Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Via de Vincigliata 26, 50014 Fiesole, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The famous art historian, Bernard Berenson, bought the Villa I Tatti in 1905 and (in 1909) commissioned two Englishmen (Cecil Ross Pinsent and Geoffrey Scott) to re-design the garden. Scott was famous as the author of a book on The Architecture of Humanism. Pinsent was a young and unknown architect. They began work at a time when Arts and Crafts designers, inspired by Blomfield, Sedding and others, were filled with enthusiasm for Italian renaissance gardens.The results of their work has many renaissance features, and a friendly pastiche charm, but it does not have the disciplined 'feel' of a genuine renaissance garden.
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• Greenhouse - at the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden, Russia. The oldest botanical garden in Russia.
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• Hanham Court Gardens - Court Farm Rd, Hanham BS15 3NT, U.K. Designed by Julian and Isabel Bannerman, who have owned the property since 1983. The style is 'traditional English' with a lake, fountains, rill, cascade, folly, ruins and temples. Some of them are handled in an innovative manner, including a stumpery - similar in style to the stumpery the Bannermans made for Prince Charles at Highgrove.
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• Hatfield House Historical Gardens - Melon Ground, Hatfield Park, Herts, Hatfield AL9 5NB, U.K. The Gardens, covering 42 acres (170,000 sq m), date from the early 17th century, and were laid out by John Tradescant the elder. Tradescant visited Europe and brought back trees and plants that had never previously been grown in England. The gardens included orchards, fountains, scented plants, water parterres, terraces, herb gardens and a foot maze.
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• Herrenhausen Gardens - Herrenhäuser Str. 4, 30419 Hannover, Germany. Of Herrenhausen Palace, located in Herrenhausen, an urban district of Lower Saxony's capital of Hanover are made up of the Great Garden (Großer Garten), the Berggarten, the Georgengarten and the Welfengarten. The gardens are a heritage of the Kings of Hanover.
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• Highgrove Royal Gardens - Highgrove House, Doughton, Tetbury GL8 8TN, U.K. As part of TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall’s private residence, The Royal Gardens at Highgrove are opened annually for visitors to share in their enjoyment of this much-loved inspirational setting. Created with imagination and passion by the Prince over the last 38 years, the series of interlinked organic gardens reflect his deep commitment to sustainability, as well as a natural artistic ability. As an important haven for a rich variety of flora and fauna, the gardens have been developed to not only please the eye, but sit in succinct harmony with nature.
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• Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens - "Thirteen Acres of Formal Gardens." 4155 Linnean Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008. Decorative arts museum since 1973. The former residence of businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist and collector Marjorie Merriweather Post. In 1956 Post hired Perry Hunt Wheeler, who designed the White House rose garden, to update the rose garden to her current tastes. Each bed is planted with a single variety of floribunda rose which bloom in the summer. A wood and brick pergola travels through the rose garden with climbing roses and white wisteria, which is finished with boxwood. tulips and sweet alyssum also decorate the garden.
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• Hyde Park - since 1637. One of the largest parks in central London, and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner. England, U.K.
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• Italian Renaissance garden - of Villa Lante at Bagnaia near Viterbo, central Italy.
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• Japanese garden - recreated garden of the old Kyoto Imperial Palace, Japan.
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• Japanese garden in Tivoli - Vesterbrogade 3, DK-1630 Copenhagen K, Denmark.
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• Jardin des Plantes - 57 Rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France. Since 1635. The main botanical garden in France. About 4500 plants are arranged by family on a one hectare (10,000 sq. m.) plot. Three hectares are devoted to horticultural displays of decorative plants. An Alpine garden has 3000 species with world-wide representation. Specialized buildings, such as a large Art Deco winter garden, and Mexican and Australian hothouses display regional plants, not native to France. The Rose Garden, created in 1990, has hundreds of species of roses and rose trees.
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• Jardin Exotique de Monaco - since 1933. 62, boulevard du Jardin Exotique, La Condamine, 98000 Monaco. The Exotic Garden of Monaco. Has a rich collection of over a thousand species of succulent plants, especially cactuses. Also home to the Observatory Cave and the Anthropology Museum, founded in 1902 by Prince Albert I.
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• Jardin Majorelle - twelve-acre botanical garden and artist's landscape garden in Marrakech, Morocco. It was designed by the expatriate French artist Jacques Majorelle in the 1920s and 1930s, during the colonial period when Morocco was a protectorate of France. The garden has been open to the public since 1947. Since 1980 the garden has been owned by Yves Saint-Laurent and Pierre Bergé. After Yves Saint Laurent died in 2008 his ashes were scattered in the Majorelle Garden.
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• Kitchen garden - of the Château de Villandry is a castle-palace located in Villandry (Indre-et-Loire), France.
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• Kyoto’s Best Gardens - "Kyoto is a garden lover’s paradise. It is the best place in all of Japan to immerse yourself in the wonders of the Japanese garden. Here are my favorite gardens in Kyoto, organized by type."
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• Longwood Gardens - consists of over 1,077 acres (4.2 sq km) of gardens, woodlands, and meadows in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States in the Brandywine Creek Valley. It is one of the premier botanical gardens in the United States and is open to visitors year-round to enjoy exotic plants and horticulture (both indoor and outdoor), events and performances, seasonal and themed attractions, as well as take part in educational lectures, courses, and workshops.
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• Maryon Park - urban public park located in Charlton in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, England, U.K. The park was the filming location of key scenes in Blowup (1966), a drama mystery-thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring David Hemmings, Sarah Miles and Vanessa Redgrave. The park is little changed since the making of the film.
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• Muskau Park - landscape park in the Upper Lusatia region of Germany and Poland. It is the largest and one of the most famous English gardens in Central Europe, stretching along both sides of the German–Polish border on the Lusatian Neisse. The park was laid out from 1815 onwards at the behest of Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (1785–1871), centered around his Schloss Muskau residence. In July 2004, Muskau Park was added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
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• Orangerie of Versailles - built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart between 1684 and 1686, that is to say, before work on the palace had even begun. It is an example of many such prestigious extensions of grand gardens in Europe designed both to shelter tender plants and impress visitors. In the winter, the Versailles Orangerie houses more than a thousand trees in boxes. Most of them are orange trees. From May to October, they are put outdoors in the Parterre Bas. France.
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• Orto botanico di Padova - botanical garden in Padua, now in the northeastern part of Italy. Founded in 1545 by the Venetian Republic Republic of Venice, it is the world's oldest academic botanical garden that is still in its original location. The garden, affiliated with the University of Padua, currently covers roughly 22,000 square meters, and is known for its special collections and historical design.
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• Palm House - Schloss Schönbrunn - Schönbrunn Palace Park, Schönbrunner Schlosstraße 47, 1130 Vienna, Austria. Large greenhouse featuring plants from around the world. It was opened in 1882. It is the most prominent of the four greenhouses in Schönbrunn Palace Park, and is also among the largest botanical exhibits of its kind in the world, with around 4,500 plant species.
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• Park of Fontainebleau - used by the kings of France from the 12th century, the medieval royal hunting lodge of Fontainebleau, standing at the heart of a vast forest in the Île-de-France, was transformed, enlarged and embellished in the 16th century by François I, who wanted to make a 'New Rome' of it. Surrounded by an immense park, the Italianate palace combines Renaissance and French artistic traditions.
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• Peter Wibroe's Garden - unique Danish 5700 square meter private baroque garden. Søllerødvej 65, 2840 Holte, Denmark.
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• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - opened in 1759. "The largest and most diverse living collection in the world." Number of species: more than 30,000.
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• RyŌan-ji Zen garden - the temple garden is considered to be one of the finest examples of a kare-sansui, a Japanese rock garden, or zen garden, in Japan.
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• Sanssouci Park - with 500 ha of parks and 150 buildings constructed between 1730 and 1916, Potsdam's complex of palaces and parks forms an artistic whole, whose eclectic nature reinforces its sense of uniqueness. It extends into the district of Berlin-Zehlendorf, with the palaces and parks lining the banks of the River Havel and Lake Glienicke. Voltaire stayed at the Sans-Souci Palace, built under Frederick II between 1745 and 1747.
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• Sofiyivsky Park - arboretum (type of botanical garden) and a scientific-researching institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The park is located in the northern part of the Uman city, Cherkasy Oblast (Central Ukraine), near the river Kamianka. Some areas of the park are reminiscent of an English garden. Today the park is a popular recreational spot, annually visited by 500 000 visitors. Sofiyivka is a scenic landmark of world gardening design at the beginning of 19th century. The park accounts for over 2,000 types of trees and brush (local and exotic) among which are taxodium (marsh cypress), Weymouth Pine, tulip tree, platanus, ginkgo, and many others.
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• Stourhead - "A breathtaking 18th century landscape garden with lakeside walks, grottoes and classical temples is only the beginning." Described as 'a living work of art' when they first opened in the 1740s. 1,072-hectare (2,650-acre) estate at the source of the River Stour near Mere, Wiltshire, England. The estate includes a Palladian mansion, the village of Stourton, gardens, farmland, and woodland. Stourhead is part owned with the National Trust since 1946.
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• Stowe Landscape Gardens - Buckinghamshire, England, U.K. In the 1690s, Stowe had a modest early-baroque parterre garden, owing more to Italy than to France, but it has not survived, and, within a relatively short time, Stowe became widely renowned for its magnificent gardens created by Lord Cobham. The Landscape Garden was created in three main phases, showing the development of garden design in 18th-century England.
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• Summer Garden - occupies an island between the Fontanka, Moika, and the Swan Canal in Saint Petersburg and shares its name with the adjacent Summer Palace of Peter the Great. Russia.
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• The Hundred Fountains at Villa d'Este - the Italian Renaissance garden of Ville d'Este, Tivoli, Lazio, Italy.
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• The Roof Gardens - 99 Kensington High Street, London W8 5SA, U.K. Located one hundred feet above Kensington High Street in central London, The Roof Gardens and Babylon Restaurant are truly spectacular. Originally above Derry and Tom's department store which opened in 1933, The Roof Gardens were the dream child of the vice president of Barkers, Trevor Bowen, who employed landscape architect Ralph Hancock to realise his vision. There are three themed gardens, with over 70 full size trees, a flowing stream stocked with fish and our resident flamingos Bill, Ben, Splosh and Pecks.
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• Tuileries Gardens - Jardins des Tuileries, Place de la Concorde, 75008 Paris. France. public garden located between the Louvre Museum and the Place de la Concorde in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. Created by Catherine de Medicis as the garden of the Tuileries Palace in 1564, it was eventually opened to the public in 1667, and became a public park after the French Revolution.
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• Ueno Park - spacious public park in the Ueno district of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan. The park was established in 1873 on lands formerly belonging to the temple of Kan'ei-ji. Amongst the country's first public parks, it was founded following the western example as part of the borrowing and assimilation of international practices that characterizes the early Meiji period. The home of a number of major museums, Ueno Park is also celebrated in spring for its cherry blossoms and hanami. In recent times the park and its attractions have drawn over ten million visitors a year, making it Japan's most popular city park.
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• Villa Lante garden - via Jacopo Barozzi, 71, 01100 Bagnaia, Viterbo (VT), Italy. Mannerist garden of surprise near Viterbo, central Italy, attributed to Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola.
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• White House Rose Garden - garden bordering the Oval Office and the West Wing of the White House. Established in 1913 by Ellen Loise Axson Wilson, wife of Woodrow Wilson and designed by Perry Hunt Wheeler. The garden is approximately 125 feet long and 60 feet wide (38 meters by 18 meters). It balances the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden on the east side of the White House Complex.
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• Wormsley - The Walled Gardens - dating from the mid-1700s, the 2 acre gardens were originally designed by Richard Woods, a contemporary of Capability Brown. Owned by the Getty Family, Wormsley is a beautiful 18th century Estate in the Chiltern Hills. The 2,700-acre Estate was acquired by the late Sir Paul Getty KBE in 1986. Sir Paul embarked on a comprehensive restoration project across the buildings, gardens and surrounding landscape, which succeeded in preserving Wormsley as a magnificent example of an English country estate.
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• Yoyogi Park - one of the largest parks in Tokyo, Japan.

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• Cheyne Walk - historic road, in Chelsea, London, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It runs parallel with the River Thames. Before the construction of the Chelsea Embankment reduced the width of the river, it fronted the river along its whole length. Many famous people have lived (and continue to live) in the Walk.
• co-op | Housing cooperative - legal entity, usually a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure. Housing cooperatives are a distinctive form of home ownership that have many characteristics that differ from other residential arrangements such as single family ownership, condominiums and renting.
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• Gated community - form of residential community or housing estate containing strictly controlled entrances for pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles, and often characterized by a closed perimeter of walls and fences.
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• STREISAND EFFECT - the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet.
• Summer White Houses - Wikipedia.
• Take a tour of the Fifth Avenue, past & present! - NYPL.
• teddy bear test & other challenges facing the rich who try to flee high-tax states - Los Angeles Times.
• Terraced house - term in architecture and city planning referring to a style of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, where a row of identical or mirror-image houses share side walls. They are also known in some areas as row houses or linked houses.
• The Dakota: A History of the World's Best-Known Apartment Building - Amazon.com.
• The Garden Villa - Aamer Architects.
• The problem of London towers - "What London's skyscrapers say about the City's worship of money."
• The Skyscraper Center - 100 tallest completed buildings in the world.
• the subterranean secrets of London's super-rich - "Study exposes thousands of opulent basement schemes with cinemas, pools ... and a beach."
• Top 5 Most Stunning Penthouses Around The World - Elite Daily.
• Top 10 NYC Apartment Buildings Designed by Rosario Candela - the most famous architect of luxury apartment buildings in New York City, most of which were erected on Fifth and Park avenues before World War II.
• Top Celebrity Homes
• Townhouse - Wikipedia.
• Treasure Houses of England - heritage consortium founded in the early 1970s by nine of the foremost stately homes in England still in private ownership, with the aim of marketing and promoting themselves as tourist venues.
• Tycoon given go-ahead for iceberg basement with banqueting hall, salt grotto & pool - The Telegraph.
• U.S. Will Track Secret Buyers of Luxury Real Estate - The New York Times.
• vanderbuilding - definition & explanation.
• VIP Castle - castles for sale.
• What is all the property in the world worth? - The Telegraph.
• What would Britain be worth if we put it on the market? - The Telegraph.
• World Reaches 100 Supertall Skyscrapers - Global Tall News.
• world's most beautiful house - BBC.
• World’s Most Expensive Home? Another Bauble for a Saudi Prince - The New York Times.
• WORLD'S TALLEST SCYCRAPERS - top 200.

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• 1 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1, U.K. - "A London Address With Distinction & History."
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• 1 CORNWALL TERRACE - London, NW1 4QP, England, U.K. The world's most expensive terraced house: £100 million. Built in the 1820s, and spans 21,500 square feet. The house has seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms, and 11 reception rooms.
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• 1 Sutton Place South - located in Beekman/Sutton Place between East 56th Street & East 57th Street, New York City, NY 10022, U.S.A. 14-story, 46-unit cooperative apartment house in the Sutton Place neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, overlooking the East River between 56th and 57th streets. The building was designed and completed in 1927 by Rosario Candela and Cross and Cross. The building is topped by a penthouse, a 17-room unit that has 5,000 square feet (460 m²) of interior space and 6,000 square feet (560 m²) of terraces that wrap entirely around it. The building was built by the Phipps family and the penthouse was created originally for Amy Phipps as a duplex. When her son, Winston Guest, the polo player and husband of garden columnist C. Z. Guest, took the apartment over.
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• 1 Times Square - also known as 1475 Broadway, the New York Times Building, the New York Times Tower, or simply as the Times Tower, is a 25 story, 395 foot (110.6 m) high skyscraper, designed by Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz, located at 42nd Street and Broadway in New York City. The tower was originally built to serve as the headquarters of the local newspaper, The New York Times.
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• 1 WTC | ONE WORLD TRADE CENTER - Vesey St, New York, NY 10006, U.S.A. Sometimes called by its previous name Freedom Tower, is the main building of the new World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The 104-story supertall skyscraper is being constructed in the northwest corner of the 16-acre World Trade Center site, occupying the location where the original 8-story 6 World Trade Center once stood. Scheduled completion in late 2013, One World Trade Center will be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and the third-tallest building in the world by pinnacle height, with its spire reaching a symbolic 1,776 feet (541.3 m) in commemoration of the year of American independence.
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• 2 East Ninety-second Street / 1107 Fifth Avenue - New York City, NY 10128, U.S.A. New York’s First-Ever Penthouse: A 54-Room Upper East Side Mansion Built for Cereal Heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.
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• 6, Palace Green, Kensington Palace Gardens - London W8, England, U.K. Nicknamed "Billionaires Row". Indian Billionaire Steel tycoon, Lakshmi Mittal has put his Palace Green estate in Kensington on the market (May 2013), with a price tag of US$166 million (£110 million). The property (14,736 sq ft) has garage space for 20 cars, 12 bedrooms, Turkish baths, a ballroom, an oak-paneled picture gallery and an ornate basement pool.
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• 8 Spruce Street - New York City, NY 10038, U.S.A. Originally known as Beekman Tower and currently marketed as New York by Gehry, the 76-story skyscraper designed by architect Frank Gehry. New York by Gehry is the 11th tallest residential tower in the world and the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere as of date 2011. The tower contains only rental units (898 in total), something of a rarity in New York’s Financial District and somewhat resembles Aqua, a Chicago skyscraper, in height and form.
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• 8 ST JAMES'S SQUARE - Westminster, London SW1Y 4LG, England, U.K. World's third most expensive flat: £115 mio. (2008).
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• 15 Central Park West - New York City's most expensive apartment (US$88 million, 6,744 sq. ft., 10 rooms, , including four bedrooms, a wrap-around terrace (that is over 2,000-square feet), a gallery, a wet bar, walk-in closets, a library and two wood-burning fireplaces). Purchased by Ekaterina Rybolovleva, the 22-year-old daughter of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev. Paid the full US$88 million sticker price in December 2011.
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• 16 Victoria Square, London SW1 - terraced house, leasehold, 4 beds, 4 baths, 3 receps. The home of Ian Fleming from 1953 until his death in 1964. Value (2014): £3,750,000.
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• 17 Kensington Palace Gardens - London W8, England, U.K. Bought in August 2011 for £90 million (US$140 million) by Russian oligarch and Chelsea FC boss Roman Abramovich from hedge-fund manager Pierre Lagrange.
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• 17 Upper Phillimore Gardens - London W8, England, U.K. Formerly a girls' preparatory school, this five-storey detached Victorian house was bought by Ukrainian businesswoman Elena Franchuk in 2008 for 80 million pounds (US$128 million). It has ten bedrooms, an underground swimming pool, sauna, gym, cinema and panic room.
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• 18 Carlton House Terrace - London SW1, England, U.K. WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE HOUSE: £250 million. Situated less than a mile from Buckingham Palace the six-storey Grade I Regency mansion is described as "the finest residence in London". 50,000 sq. ft. of living space.
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• 22b Ebury Street, Belgravia, London - English author Ian Fleming bought a flat from the fascist leader Oswald Mosley in 1934 and lived here until 1945. Moonraker villain Sir Hugo Drax also lived in this flat and Bond chased him down Ebury Street, all the way to Dover! This building was constructed in 1830 as a Baptist church but is now divided into several flats.
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• 23 Beekman Place - apartment building in the far east side of midtown Manhattan, in Turtle Bay located between 50th and 51st Streets on the east side of the street. This building was created by Paul Rudolph, an American architect and once dean of Yale University. It is one of the last of his buildings still standing in New York City, U.S.A.
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• 23 St Margaret's Bay, Dover, Kent, U.K. - Ian Fleming bought the house from his friend Noël Coward in 1951.
• 25 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London, U.K. - "James Bond's real-life London home finally found 70 years after Ian Fleming created spy. Having pieced together clues from books including Moonraker, From Russia with Love and Thunderball, he believes Bond lived at 25 Wellington Square in Chelsea, West London."
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• 30 ST MARY AXE | The Gherkin - 591 ft / 180 m 40 floors (architects: Foster + Partners) (London, U.K.).
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• 55, Rue de Babylone - 520m² duplex & private 436m² garden. "About 1929, or so the legend goes, a rich American began remodeling a duplex at 55, rue de Babylone, in Paris’s Seventh Arrondissement. The last word in modernity, the garden-level residence featured streamlined brass radiators and sleek oak paneling. But, ruined by the crash of Wall Street, the American never moved in. Enter Marie Cuttoli, the spouse of a Radical Socialist Algerian senator. Determined to revive both the Algerian and French weaving industries, Mme. Cuttoli commissioned tapestries from her friends Picasso, Braque, Matisse, and Léger. In 1969 the apartment once again became available and was bought by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé. After a two-year restoration project, the couple settled in.
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• 220 Central Park South - residential skyscraper currently under construction, being developed by Vornado. It is located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and is being designed by American architect Robert A. M. Stern. The tower will be located along Central Park South, West of 432 Park Avenue. 220 Central Park South will have 65 floors, and will include 150 units. Completion is expected in 2016. When completed, the tower will be the tenth tallest building in New York City, slightly shorter than Four World Trade Center. NYC's most expensive condo will measure 18,000 square feet and has been bought by hedge fund maganager Kennth Griffin for US$200 million.
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• 520 Park Avenue | 60th Street - New York City has a new most expensive apartment for sale, and it’s not even built yet. With an asking price of US$130 million, the 12,394-square-foot triplex planned to top a luxury tower that is set to go up at 520 Park Avenue would be the most expensive apartment New York has ever seen, surpassing the US$118.5 million asking price for three separate units currently being marketed together in Battery City’s Ritz-Carlton tower. The 54-story condominium tower at 520 Park Avenue is scheduled to begin rising by February 2015.

• 740 Park Avenue | 71 East 71st Street - since 1929. Luxury apartment building on Park Avenue in Manhattan, which has been the home to many wealthy and famous residents. Units in the building have regularly sold for some of the highest prices in New York City. In 2000, Stephen Schwarzman purchased Saul Steinberg's apartment for "slightly above or below US$30 million," which was reportedly the highest price ever paid on Park Avenue. The apartment was previously owned by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who moved to the building in 1937. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis grew up there with her father and mother. The building is said to have the highest concentration of billionaires in the United States. In 2005, author Michael Gross published a detailed book on the building and its history, 740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building.
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• 924 Bel Air Road - "America's Most Expensive Home Lists For Record US$250 Million." 38,000-square-foot property developed by Makowsky's BAM Luxury Development team. It includes 21 bathrooms and three gourmet kitchens along with two master suites and 10 guest suites. The property also includes a 17,000 square-foot entertainment deck, fitness center, and glass tile infinity swimming pool.
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• 960 Fifth Avenue | 3 East 77th Street - apartment building on Fifth Avenue on the northeast corner of East 77th Street in Manhattan, New York. It is considered one of New York City's "A-plus" buildings and signifies "that you are wealthy and social, that you have made it to the pinnacle of what many consider world society." 960 Fifth Avenue was built on the former site of the William A. Clark House. When Senator Clark died in 1925, his widow and daughter, Huguette Clark, moved to 907 Fifth Avenue and sold the mansion to Anthony Campagna for $3 million in 1927. Campagana had the mansion torn down just 19 years after it was built in 1911. The new building was designed by Warren & Wetmore, who were responsible for Grand Central Terminal and the supervisory architects was Rosario Candela of Cross & Cross. The building was started in 1927 and completed in 1928. Apartments average 14 to 17 rooms, with 8 maids' rooms, and is one of the few in New York with its own in-house restaurant. The original apartments were priced from $130,000 to $325,000 and more than 75 percent of the apartments were sold before the frame of the building was enclosed. Notable residents.
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• 1040 Fifth Avenue | 85th Street - luxury 17-storey, 27 apartments residential housing cooperative in Manhattan, New York City. The large building has only 27 apartments and has had many prominent residents including the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who purchased an apartment on the 15th floor in 1964 and lived there until her death in 1994.
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• 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE - the White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States, located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Pennsylvania Avenue is a street in Washington, D.C. that joins the White House and the United States Capitol. Called "America's Main Street". Real estate website Zillow’s listing for the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW describes it as a "magnificent 132-room mansion (estimated value: US$324,098,369)" as the "rarest of homes in the U.S. since it is not only the residence of the U.S. president and his family, but it also has two wings with offices for the president, the First Lady, top staff and aides."
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• Al Capone House - 93 Palm Avenue, Palm Island, Miami Beach, FL 33139, U.S.A. 10,000-square-foot waterfront mansion on Palm Island in Miami Beach. Built in 1922 by Clarence Busch, a member of the Anheuser-Busch brewing family. Bought by Al Capone in 1928 for $40,000. Listed at US$8.45 million.
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• Albany - or The Albany, depending on when you are speaking and how fashionable you are (now, at the beginning of the 21st century, 'Albany', without the definitive article, is de rigeur). One of London's most exclusive addresses since 1803. Located right off Piccadilly: between Sackville Street and Burlington House (or the Royal Academy). It was converted by Henry Holland into 69 bachelor apartments (known as "sets") in 1802-3. The residents have included such famous names as the poet Lord Byron and the future Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, and numerous members of the aristocracy. During the Second World War, one of the buildings received significant damage from a German bomb, but was reconstructed after the war to appear as an exact replica. Residents no longer have to be bachelors, although children under the age of 14 are not permitted to live there. The apartments or "sets" are individually owned as Flying freeholds, with the owners known as "Proprietors"; a set that came up for sale in 2007 had an advertised guide price of £2 million.
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• Alnwick Castle - castle and stately home in the town of the same name in the English county of Northumberland. It is the residence of the Duke of Northumberland, built following the Norman conquest, and renovated and remodelled a number of times. It is a Grade I listed building and receives over 800,000 visitors per year. The current duke and his family live in the castle, but they only occupy part of it. The castle is open to the public throughout the summer. After Windsor Castle, it is the second largest inhabited castle in England. The castle is used as a stand in for the exterior and interior of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films, which has led to an increase in public interest with Alnwick. It’s also famous for it’s poison garden – a garden specially cultivated with dangerous plants.
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• Ann & Gordon Getty's Mansion - 2870-2880 Broadway, Billionaires Row, Pacific Heights, San Francisco, CA 94115, U.S.A. Georgian-style house designed by Willis Polk in 1913, complete with music room and ballroom.
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• ANTILIA - Altamount Rd, Tardeo, Mumbai, MH 400026, India. World's largest home: 400,000 square feet, 27-floor personal home in South Mumbai belonging to businessman Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries. A full-time staff of 600 maintains the residence, reportedly the most expensive home in the world: between US$1 billion and $2 billion.
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• Apple Park - 1 Apple Park Way, Cupertino, CA 95014, U.S.A. "The best office building in the world": a four-story ring, which, at 2.8 million square feet, would be two-thirds the size of the Pentagon and set among 176 acres of 6,000 trees, accommodating more than 12,000 employees, parking spaces underground. Total cost: US$6 billion (eclipsing the US$3.9 billion being spent on the new One World Trade Center complex in New York). To achieve its goals of a "net-zero energy" campus, the roof of the "spaceship" will hold 700,000 square feet of solar panels, enough to generate 8 megawatts of power. Steve Jobs presents the plan for the new Apple Campus - his is the last known video footage of Steve Jobs. He presented to plans of the new Apple Campus "The Mothership" to the Cupertino City Council. Designed by Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank. Construction began in October 2013. Opened in April 2017.
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• Apsley House - also known as Number One, London, is the London townhouse of the Dukes of Wellington. It stands alone at Hyde Park Corner, on the south-east corner of Hyde Park, facing south towards the busy traffic roundabout in the centre of which stands the Wellington Arch.
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• Avenue de Champagne - famous street located in Épernay, the 'Capital of champagne', in the Champagne-Ardenne Région of France. Its name derives from the presence of many leading champagne producers such as Moët et Chandon, Mercier and De Castellane. Residents say that this avenue is the most expensive in the world, more so than the Champs-Élysées in Paris, because of the millions of bottles of champagne stored in the kilometres of chalk cellars beneath it.

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• Barbra Streisand's Malibu home - in 2003, Streisand sued aerial photographer Kenneth Adelman for displaying a photograph of her Malibu, California home, along with 12,000 other photos of the California coastline taken to illustrate coastal erosion. The picture had at that point been downloaded a total of six times, two of which were by Streisand's lawyers. The suit had the unintended consequence of drawing attention to the photograph, which suddenly became wildly popular and was rapidly copied to multiple mirrors outside the immediate reach of US law. Her lawsuit was eventually dismissed under the anti-SLAPP provisions of California law. Mike Masnick of Techdirt coined the term Streisand effect in January 2005 to describe the publicity generated by Streisand's efforts to suppress the publication of the photograph. The 10,485 sq. ft. main house was built in 1984 with 8 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms. The small 2,013 sq. ft. guesthouse was built in 1948 and sits adjacent to the newly constructed 5,961 sq. ft. buildings known as the Barn and the Mill House that were built in 2007. Current speculation pegs the value of the estate at between US$60-US$100 million.
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• Beacon Rock Mansion - aka the "Acropolis of Newport." Designed in 1887 by architect Stanford White, of the renowned architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White in New York for Commodore Edwin D. Morgan. Its owner for 3 decades, Edwin D. Morgan, cousin of J.P. Morgan, served as commodore at the Newport Yacht Club and personally owned several of the America's Cup defenders, which he kept at Beacon Rock. In 1951, the property was purchased by Felix De Weldon, a world renowned artist, who is most famous for his stirring bronze sculpture of the U.S. Marine flag raising on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II. The landscaped grounds, originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, include a winding drive over a triple arched bridge, tall hedges and stone walls protecting the perimeter of the property, ornamental ironwork gates and an entrance courtyard featuring a boxwood hedge maze.
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• Beechwood Mansion - built in 1851 for New York merchant Daniel Parrish by architects Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux, it later became the summer estate of the Astor family. Before moving in, Mrs Astor hired architect Richard Morris Hunt to do many renovations including the addition of a ballroom to fit the famous "The Four Hundred". Beechwood became the show place for many of Mrs. Astor's dinner parties.
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• Beekman Place - running from north to south for two blocks, the street is situated between the eastern end of 51st Street and Mitchell Place, where it ends at a retaining wall above 49th Street, overlooking the glass apartment towers at 860 and 870 United Nations Plaza, just north of the United Nations Headquarters complex in New York City, NY, U.S.A. In the 1920s, the neighborhood started to turn around, eventually to become one of the most sought after addresses of the wealthy. The roster of current and former residents reads like a small Who’s Who.
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• BEIJING NATIONAL STADIUM | "BIRD'S NEST" - stadium in Beijing, China. The stadium was designed for use throughout the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The world's largest steel structure.
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• BEL AIR - affluent residential community in the hills of the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. Together with Beverly Hills and Holmby Hills it forms the Platinum Triangle of Los Angeles neighborhoods.
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• Belcourt Castle - former summer cottage, designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt for Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, and located on Bellevue Avenue. Begun in 1891 and completed in 1894, it was intended to be used for only six to eight weeks of the year. Designed in a multitude of European styles and periods, Belcourt features a heavy emphasis on French Renaissance and Gothic decor, with further borrowings from German, English and Italian design. In the Gilded Age, the castle was well noted for its extensive stables and carriage areas, which were incorporated into the main structure.
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• Bellevue Avenue Historic District - located along and around Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A. Its property is almost exclusively residential, including many of the mansions built by affluent summer vacationers in the city around the turn of the 20th century, including the Vanderbilt family and Astor family. Many of the homes represent pioneering work in the architectural styles of the time by major American architects. The district encompasses an area of 606 acres (242 ha) bounded by Block Island Sound and Narragansett Bay to the south and east, respectively, Spring Street and Coggeshall Avenue to the west, and Memorial Boulevard to the north. This takes in the southeastern quarter of the developed portions of the city on the southwestern neck of Aquidneck Island. Bellevue Avenue itself runs north-south for over two miles (3.2 km) through the middle of the district.
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• Bellosguardo Estate - the mysterious Clark estate in Santa Barbara, Calif., has been empty since 1963. Named Bellosguardo for its "beautiful view" of the Pacific, it's worth more than US$100 million, a 21,666-square-foot house on 23 acres. Caretakers have labored at the Clark estate for generations.
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• BEVERLY HILLS - affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, which is surrounded by the City of Los Angeles. Beverly Hills is world-famous for its luxurious culture and famous residents. It is home to renowned shopping district Rodeo Drive.
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• Beverly House - "The Legendary Beverly House is sited on approximately 6 flat acres atop a private knoll 3 blocks from Sunset Boulevard. With original landscaping by Paul Thiene, entrance gates adjacent a two-story gate house open to a long private driveway ascending one of the city’s longest private drives to a courtyard fountain. Architect Gordon Kaufmann was commissioned by one of Los Angeles most important families to create his legendary masterpiece. Built of terra-cotta stucco, the H-shaped residence exhibits a perfect combination of Spanish and Italian style, with intricately carved ceilings and paneled walls, French doors, balconies, arched ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows, which overlook the famous cascading waterfalls to the pool and the Venetian columns beyond the pool house.The Beverly House was built by banking executive Milton Getz. Marion Davies bought the property in 1946 for William Randolph Hearst, historical figure and most powerful publishing magnate of the 20th century, who moved there from San Simeon and lived at Beverly House where he spent the remainder of his life. In addition to hosting John & Jacqueline Kennedy during their honeymoon, Beverly House also played a character in the classic movies ”The Godfather” and ”The Bodyguard.”" List price: US$135,000,000.
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• Bijan Pakzad Residence - 100 Copley Place, Beverly Hills, California. Known as 'Bijan,' the Iranian menswear designer was famous for his exclusive Beverly Hills boutique on Rodeo Drive, 'the most expensive store in the world,' his extravagant car collection, and 12,000 square foot mansion: six bedrooms, twelve bathrooms, featuring numerous extraordinary features, such as "an exquisite $200,000 chandelier comprised entirely of Bijan’s signature perfume bottles…landscaped pool oasis…mustard-colored rooms," a family room with double-height ceilings, a chef’s kitchen, breakfast room, office, elevator and a master suite with a wetbar. There is also a guest house and a 22-car garage. Sold for US$9.8 mio., May, 2013.
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• Bill Gates' House - 1835 73rd Ave NE, Medina, Washington, U.S.A. The 66,000-square-foot (6,100 m²) mansion is noted for its design and the technology it incorporates. It is nicknamed Xanadu 2.0 after the title character's estate in Citizen Kane. It took 7 years to build and cost US$63.2 million. In 2009, property taxes were reported to be US $1.063 million on a total assessed value of US$147.5 million. 19 crazy facts about Bill Gates' $123 million mansion - Business Insider.
• Billionaire's row - Pacific Heights, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
• Billionaire's row, Palm Beach, Florida - defined as the area between 1200 and 2200 South Ocean Shore Drive and is considered to be the most exclusive and luxurious collection of estate properties in Palm Beach.
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• Billionaires Row - Kensington Palace Gardens, London W2 2UH, England, U.K. Street in west central London with some of the most expensive property in the world.
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• BILTMORE HOUSE & ESTATE - "America's Largest Home and More!" (Asheville, NC, U.S.A.). Biltmore House, the main house on the estate, is a Châteauesque-styled mansion built by George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 square feet (16,622.8 m²) and featuring 250 rooms. Still owned by one of Vanderbilt's descendants, it stands today as one of the most prominent remaining examples of the Gilded Age.
• BISHOPS AVENUE - Hampstead, London N2 0BE, England, U.K. It is considered to be one of the wealthiest streets in the world, comparable to a select few ultra-exclusive roads in such other affluent places around the world as Beverly Hills, Monaco and Hong Kong.
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• Blenheim Palace - residence of the dukes of Marlborough. It is the only non-royal non-episcopal country house in England to hold the title of palace. The palace, one of England's largest houses, was built between 1705, and circa 1724. UNESCO recognised the palace as a World Heritage Site in 1987.
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• BOB GUCCIONE 27-room Beaux Arts-style MANSION - 14-16 East 67th Street, Manhattan’s Upper East Side sold in March 2008 for US$49 mio. to hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone.
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• Bob Hope SPACE-AGE Residence - 2466 Southridge Drive, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A. The 23,366-square-foot home was designed in 1973 by John Lautner to resemble a volcano. Completed in 1980 the six bedroom, 10 bath home features a putting green, tennis court, and two pools. An architectural treasure that hit the market in late February, 2013 for US$50 million.
• Brickell Avenue - Miami, Florida, US.A. Aka Millionaire's Row.
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• BURJ KHALIFA - (formerly known as Burj Dubai) the tallest man-made structure ever built: 2,717 ft / 828 m, 163 habitable floors, plus 46 maintenance levels in the spire and 2 parking levels in the basement.

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• Carolands Chateau - 565 Remillard Dr, Hillsborough, CA 94010, U.S.A. 46,050-square-foot (4,278 sq m); 4.5 floor, 98 room mansion on 5.83 acres (2.36 ha) in Hillsborough, California. An example of American Renaissance and Beaux-Arts design, the building is a California Historical Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Carolands is one of the last of the great houses to be built during the Gilded Age, a period of great mansion-building that included famous houses of the Vanderbilt family, like Marble House, Biltmore Estate and The Breakers, and stately California houses like Filoli and The Huntington mansions.
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• Casa Casuarina - 1116 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139, U.S.A. This luxurious mansion has gone by many names, including Casa Casuarina, the Amsterdam Palace, and most recently, The Villa By Barton G. But most will always think of it as the Versace Mansion, since it is most famous as the former home and murder site of Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace on July 16, 1997. The mansion was originally built in 1930 by the architect, author, and philanthropist, Alden Freeman. Mr. Freeman was the heir to the Standard Oil fortune. He modeled the mansion after the oldest house in the western hemisphere, the "AlcÁzar de ColÓn" in Santo Domingo. In 1992, the mansion was purchased by the famous Italian fashion designer, Gianni Versace, for a price of $2.9 million.
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• Casa Encantada - 10644 Bellagio Rd., Bel Air, Los Angeles, CA 90077, U.S.A. The estate (on 7.47 acres) was built in the 1930s at enormous expense by wealthy society aspirant Hilda Boldt Weber, with interiors designed by TH Robsjohn-Gibbings - eventually the upkeep became too much and Weber ended up committing suicide, poor and alone in Santa Barbara. In 1950, the property sold to hotelier Conrad Hilton for $225,000, or one one-thousandth of its current alleged asking price. Hilton lived there until his death in 1979. Put on the market in 2013 for US$225 million.
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• Casa La Loma - Cuixmala, Carretera Melaque-Puerto Vallarta Km 46.2, 48983 La Huerta, Jalisco, Mexico. "Once the private home of Franco-British billionaire Sir James Goldsmith. Goldsmith conceived the 25,000-acre property as a home for his family and friends. The centerpiece is Casa La Loma, a sprawling villa modeled on the Hagia Sophia, with a blue-and-yellow dome crowning its adobe walls. Inside, the four bedrooms and ample living areas of the main house are outfitted with Oriental rugs, mother-of-pearl chairs, ornately carved window shutters and room dividers, and sumptuous silks on the big sleeping beds and smaller daybeds. Fountain courtyards carry on the Middle Eastern theme, but the views from the three palapa-covered terraces and the saltwater pool are pure Pacific. Six separate bungalows bring the bedroom total to ten. A full staff, of course, is included. (The chefs are especially talented, and the food - much of it grown on Cuixmala’s sister hotel, Hacienda de San Antonio - is outstanding.)."
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• CASA LORIANA - The Golden Mile, Marbella, Spain. €50,000,000.
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• Castillo Mallorca - located on its own private peninsula at the entrance to Port Andratx, Mallorca, Spain. Spanish villa where Princess Diana used to holiday goes on the market for €38 million. The 1,400 square metre property includes a sauna, gym, piano lounge and billiards room. Guest houses, a swimming pool, gardens and terraces also feature in 6,000 square metres of land.
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• Castle Howard - York YO60 7DA, North Yorkshire, England, U.K. 'One of the World's Top Ten Greatest Mansions and Grand Houses' - Lonely Planet's 1,000 Ultimate Sights.
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• Castle St. Therese - "Princess Diana's St. Tropez Love Nest." The main house was built in 1853 by Vicomte Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French-colonial engineer and builder of the Suez Canal. 30-bedroom 2650 sq m mansion on four acres. Price: US$100 million.
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• Causeway Bay - heavily built-up area of Hong Kong, located on the Hong Kong Island, and covering parts of Wan Chai and Eastern districts. The rent in the shopping areas of Causeway Bay was ranked as the world's most expensive for the second year in a row, after overtaking New York's Fifth Avenue (annual rent per sq. ft.: US$2,500) in 2012. Annual rent per sq. ft.: US$3,017.
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• Central Park West Historic District - located in Manhattan, New York City, United States along historic Central Park West, between 61st and 97th Streets: The Majestic, The Dakota, The Langham & The San Remo.
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• Champ d'Or Estate - baroque French château located in Hickory Creek, Texas. Inspired by Vaux-le-Vicomte near Paris, France, the château situated at 1851 Turbeville Road, in Denton County. Champ d'Or took five years to plan and construct—using materials from all over the nation. The 25-acre (100,000 m²) estate includes the 48,000-square-foot (4,500 m²) mansion, an adjacent one-and-a-half-acre lake, formal gardens, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a tennis court, a pool/tennis house and two matching guardhouses. The sprawling house features an iconic dome with a ceiling height of 78 feet (24 m); a ballroom with Versailles-style mirrors; a garden room with windows which descend electronically, opening to a veranda which seats 450 for dinner; a two-story Chanel-styled closet in the master; a theater; a bowling alley, and a racquetball court.
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• Champs-ÉlysÉes - street in Paris, France. With its cinemas, cafés, luxury specialty shops and clipped horse-chestnut trees, the Champs-Élysées is one of the most famous streets and one of the most expensive strips of real estate in the world. Several French monuments are also on the street, including the Arc de Triomphe and the Place de la Concorde.
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• Chartwell Mansion - 750 Bel Air Road, Los Angeles, California, 90077, U.S.A., also known as "The Beverly Hillbillies" mansion from the 1960s TV show, finally changed owners for US$150 million making it the most expensive home ever sold in the city. The buyer is Lachlan Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch and co-chairman of publishing company News Corp. The property was home to billionaire media mogul Jerry Perenchio, one-time Univision chairman and CEO, who died in 2017. The 25,000-square-foot mega residence has 11 bedrooms and 18 bathrooms, a 12,000-bottle wine cellar, a 75-foot swimming pool, acres of private gardens and secret underground tunnels. See YouTube video (13:13): "Inside a $195 Million Bel Air Estate With Secret Tunnels." (Architectural Digest).
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• CHÂTEAU DE FerriÈres - French château built between 1855 and 1859 by Baron James de Rothschild in the GoÛt Rothschild. Rothschild ownership of the Château de Ferrières was passed down through the male line according to the rule of primogeniture. Considered by far the largest and most luxurious 19th-century château in France. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the Château de Ferrières was seized by the Germans and was the site of negotiations between Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the North German Confederation, and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jules Favre. The Germans again seized the château during the occupation of France in World War II and this time, looted its vast art collections. The château remained empty until 1959 when Guy de Rothschild and his new wife, Marie-Hélène de Zuylen van Nyeve set about refurbishing it. From 1959, they hosted regular parties at the château, the theme of which would be personally designed by artists or designers such as Yves Saint Laurent. Their parties would mainly consist of aristocracy, but they always included many of her friends from a wider society such as Brigitte Bardot, Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn. In 1975, Guy de Rothschild and his wife charitably donated the château to the chancellery of the University of Paris, and it is now open to the public for guided tours and special events.
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• ChÂteau de La Colle Noire - "Christian Dior’s former residence. Located in Montauroux, a village near Grasse in the region that inspired Christian Dior to craft his most beautiful fragrances. He took refuge in the area during the Occupation, and in 1951, when he was at the height of his career, Christian Dior purchased the Château de la Colle Noire. The magnificent property, which spans several hundred hectares, became the designer’s haven of peace when he decided to leave the fashion runways behind and seek out nature in Provence. Little by little, Monsieur Dior transformed the château into a place for living, creating, art and entertaining friends. He decorated all the rooms with the refinement for which he is renowned, and devoted himself to the creation of a grandiose garden."
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• CHÂTEAU DE LA CROË - located in Cap d’Antibes, South of France between Nice and Cannes, France. Built in 1867 by Charles Garnier, best known as the architect of the Palais Garnier (Paris opera), the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and Monte Carlo Casino. It has been home to: the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos. In 2004 it was bought by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich for a reported £15 million.
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• CHÂTEAU de Monte-Cristo - writer's house museum located in the country home of the writer Alexandre Dumas, père. The château was built in 1846 by the architect Hippolyte Durand in Port-Marly, Yvelines, France. Dumas named it after one of his most successful novels: The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 1845–1846). Durand also built a writing studio on the grounds, which Dumas named the Château d'If after another setting from the same novel.
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• CHÂTEAU ÉlysÉe - now Scientology Celebrity Centre on Franklin Avenue in Hollywood, California, U.S.A. Former hotel located at 5930 Franklin Ave. in the Franklin Village section of Los Angeles, California. It was originally built as a luxury long-term residential apartment house for movie stars by Elinor K. Ince, widow of Thomas H. Ince, the highly successful pioneer silent filmmaker who died in 1924. Designed by eminent architect Arthur E. Harvey as a prominent seven-story replica of a 17th-century French-Normandy castle, it remains as the most impressive of several Hollywood chateaux built during the area's booming 1920s. In a spirit echoing her husband's contributions in the formative period of the film industry, Mrs. Ince provided a home for many of the artists that were then being drawn to Hollywood. Residents included some of the most famous names of the 1930s and 40s. Most notably Bette Davis, Errol Flynn (room 211), Edward G. Robinson (room 216), Carol Lombard (room 305), Edgar Rice Burroughs (room 408), Humphrey Bogart (room 603), Clark Gable (room 604), Ginger Rogers (room 705), Ed Sullivan (room 501), Gracie Allen and George Burns (room 609) along with Lillian Gish, Katharine Hepburn, George Gershwin, and Cary Grant. In 1969, the building began being used as the Church of Scientology's home for its Celebrity Centre; since 1973 the building has been owned by the Church. Several floors are now hotel rooms (for church members only), with the building's topmost stories serving as offices. Free guided tours of the historic building are available to the general public.
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• CHÂTEAU LOUIS XIV - World's Most Expensive Home. Located about 15 minutes outside the Parisian neighborhood of Triangle d’Or, fetched a world record price of more than 275 million euros (US$301 million) in December, 2015. Constructed between 2008 and 2011 in the commune of Louveciennes in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region. Although it is a new construction, the Château Louis XIV meets the exact standards and rules of proportions and ornamentation established from Antiquity as they were regularly applied during the 17th century.
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• CHÂTEAU St. Jean - 1 Château Saint Jean, 67120 Molsheim, France. The home of Bugatti & the former home of founder/proprietor Ettore Bugatti (1881-1947) in Molsheim, France.
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• Chateau-sur-Mer - "Chateau-sur-Mer is a landmark of High Victorian architecture, furniture, wallpapers, ceramics and stenciling. It was the most palatial residence in Newport from its completion in 1852 until the appearance of the Vanderbilt houses in the 1890s. It was the scene of memorable entertainments, from the "Fete Champetre", an elaborate country picnic for over two thousand guests held in 1857, to the debutante ball for Miss Edith Wetmore in 1889."
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• Chatsworth House - stately home in North Derbyshire, England. It is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, and has been home to his family, the Cavendish family, since Bess of Hardwick settled at Chatsworth in 1549. The house, set in expansive parkland and backed by wooded, rocky hills rising to heather moorland, contains a unique collection of priceless paintings, furniture, Old Master drawings, neoclassical sculptures, books and other artefacts. Chatsworth has been selected as the United Kingdom's favourite country house several times.
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• Chemosphere - once called "the most modern home built in the world". The building stands on the San Fernando Valley side of the Hollywood Hills, just off of Mulholland Drive: 7776 Torreyson Drive, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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• Chepstow - "An Italianate-style villa, Chepstow was built in 1860 by resident Newport architect George Champlin Mason as the Chepstow parloersummer residence of Edmund Schermerhorn. Acquired by Mrs. Emily Morris Gallatin in 1911, the estate continued in the Morris family until bequeathed in 1986 to the Preservation Society, with its collections intact and an endowment by Mrs. Alletta Morris McBean."
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• CHESA FUTURA - Norman + Partner's masterpiece in St. Moritz: Chesa Futura apartment building in Switzerland's Engadin Valley.
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• Chester Square - small residential garden square located in London's Belgravia district. Along with its sister squares Belgrave Square and Eaton Square, it is one of the three garden squares built by the Grosvenor family when they developed the main part of Belgravia in the 19th century. Notable residents: Roman Abramovich, George II, King of the Hellenes, Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, Mick Jagger, Nigella Lawson, Yehudi Menuhin, Mary Shelley & Margaret Thatcher.
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• Cheyne Walk - historic road, in Chelsea, London, U.K. in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It runs parallel with the River Thames. Before the construction of the Chelsea Embankment reduced the width of the river, it fronted the river along its whole length. Many famous people have lived (and continue to live) in the Walk.
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• CHRYSLER BUILDING - 1,046 ft / 318.9 m 77 floors (New York City, NY, U.S.A.).
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• Clarendon Court - corner of Yznaga Street and 626 Bellevue Avenue, and former estate of Sunny & Claus von BÜlow. Perhaps the most notorious of the Newport "cottages," this twenty-room structure was built in 1904 and was named Claradon for Clara Knight, the wife of Edward R. Knight, the Pennsylvania Railroad executive who commissioned the house. A subsequent owner changed the name of the house to Clarendon Court. In 1956 Clarendon Court served as a set for High Society, the musical version of The Philadelphia Story that starred Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Grace Kelly (in her last film).
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• Cliveden - Italianate mansion and estate at Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England. Set on banks 40 metres (130 ft) above the River Thames, its grounds slope down to the river. The site has been home to an Earl, three Countesses, two Dukes, a Prince of Wales and the Viscounts Astor. As home of Nancy Astor, the house was the meeting place of the Cliveden set of the 1920s and 1930s—a group of political intellectuals. Later, during the 1960s, it became the setting for key events of the notorious Profumo Affair. During the 1970s, it was occupied by Stanford University of California, which used it as an overseas campus. Today owned by the National Trust, the house is leased as a five-star hotel run by London & Regional Properties. The 375 acres (152 ha) gardens and woodlands are open to the public, together with parts of the house on certain days.
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• CN TOWER - 1,815,4 ft / 553,33 m 147 floors concrete communications and observation tower in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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• DUKE-SEMANS MANSION - Manhattans most expensive townhouse: US$44 mio. The building was built in 1901. The house was owned by the Duke Family until 2006 when they sold it for US$40,000,000 to to real estate billionaire Tamir Sapir. Carlos Slim, at the time the richest person in the world, bought the mansion four years later in 2010 for US$44,000,000.

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• Easton Neston - country house near Towcester, Northamptonshire, England. It was designed in the Baroque style by the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor. Easton Neston is thought to be the only mansion which was solely the work of Hawksmoor. The house Hawksmoor built at Easton Neston can be best described as a miniature palace that owes the colossal order of pilasters and crowning balustrade to Michelangelo's palazzi on the Campidoglio at Rome and may in turn have influenced through engravings in Vitruvius Britannicus Gabriel's design of the Petit Trianon at Versailles, which was not to be built for another 50 years.
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• EIFFEL TOWER - iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower. Erected in 1889 as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair, it has become both a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The tower is the tallest structure in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world; 7.1 million people ascended it in 2011. The tower received its 250 millionth visitor in 2010.
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• El Fureidis - (Little Paradise or Pleasure Gardens) is a 10,000-square-foot (930 m²) historic estate built in 1906 on 10 acres in Montecito, California, U.S.A. Originally called the James Waldron Gillespie Estate or Gillespie Palace after its original owner, the Roman, Persian, Arabic, and Spanish-styled architecture is one of only five houses designed by the American architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. El Fureidis is most famous for being the source of rare palm trees now found in Disneyland's Adventureland and Jungle Cruise ride. It was also used in the main outside location shots for Tony Montana’s Coral Gables mansion in the 1983 film Scarface. List Price: US$29,500,000. Rent: US$30,000 / Month.
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• El Solano - 720 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, FL 33480, U.S.A. "No Palm Beach mansion better represents the town's luminous legacy than the Spanish-style home built in 1919 by Addison Mizner as his own residence in 1925. Mizner later sold El Solano to Harold Vanderbilt, and the property was long a favorite among socialites for parties and photo shoots. Vanderbilt held many a gala fund-raiser here. In the 1960s and ’70s, the house was home to John "Jock" McLean and his socialite wife, "Brownie". In January 1980, she sold the estate for $725,000 to John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, who only resided in it for a short period that winter and made plans for a major renovation. It's still privately owned and not open to the public."
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• Elephant Walk - 109 Jungle Road, Palm Beach, FL 33480, U.S.A. Built in the Palm Beach Regency style in 1953 by builder and developer Clarence Mack, the Estate Section house was acquired by socialite Marylou Whitney and her late husband, Cornelius Vanderbilt “Sonny” Whitney in 1987. In 1993, Whitney and her husband’s estate sold it to the late class-action attorney David Berger. The house changed hands again in 2008, when philanthropist Carroll Petrie bought it for $7.45 million.
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• Ellison Estate - Woodside, CA, U.S.A. Larry Ellison, co-founder and chief executive of Oracle Corporation, built his 23-acre Japanese-style estate in 2004 with 10 buildings, a man made lake, a tea house, a bath house and a koi pond. Value estimated at US$200 million.
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• EMPIRE STATE BUILDING - 102-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (381 meters), and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 1,454 ft (443.2 m) high. It stood as the world's tallest building for 40 years, from its completion in 1931 until construction of the World Trade Center's North Tower was completed in 1972. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building was again the tallest building in New York (although it was no longer the tallest in the US or the world), until One World Trade Center reached a greater height on April 30, 2012.
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• Enigma Mansion - Cape Town’s grandest and palatial mansion occupies more than 7000 sqm of the most prestigious residential area on the entire Atlantic seaboard. Located in a triangle between 3 streets in the heart of the Glen.

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• Fairfield Pond - 1 Fairfield Pond Road, Sagaponack, The Hamptons, NY 11962, U.S.A. The 66,000 square metre US$ 200 million building, sitting on 63 acres of ground is privately owned by junk bond billionaire Ira Rennert. Features include a 91 foot dining room, bowling alley, two tennis courts, two squash courts and a US$150,000 hot tub.
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• FALLINGWATER - aka the Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence, is a house designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Mill Run, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
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• Farnsworth House - designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between 1945-51. It is a one-room weekend retreat in a once-rural setting, located 55 miles (89 km) southwest of Chicago's downtown on a 60-acre (24 ha) estate site, adjoining the Fox River, south of the city of Plano, Illinois. The steel and glass house was commissioned by Dr. Edith Farnsworth, a prominent Chicago nephrologist, as a place where she could engage in her hobbies: playing the violin, translating poetry, and enjoying nature. Mies created a 1,500-square-foot (140 m²) house that is widely recognized as an iconic masterpiece of International Style of architecture. The home was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006, after joining the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The house is currently owned and operated as a house museum by the historic preservation group, National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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• FISHER ISLAND - named for automotive parts pioneer and beach real estate developer Carl G. Fisher, who once owned it, Fisher Island is 3 miles off shore of mainland South Florida. No road or causeway connects to the island, which is accessible by private boat or ferry. Once a one-family island home of the Vanderbilts, and later several other millionaires, it was sold for development in 1960s. The property sat vacant for well over 15 years before development was begun for very limited and restrictive multi-family use. As of the 2010 census, Fisher Island had the highest per capita income of any place in the United States in 2010. The CDP had only 226 households and a total population of 132 persons.
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• Flat 24, Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea - Carlyle Mansions is an apartment block located on Cheyne Walk, in Chelsea, London. Named after Thomas Carlyle, a longtime resident of the area, the building is nicknamed the “Writers’ Block” because it has been home to a ton of authors, among them, Henry James, Erskine Childers, T. S. Eliot, Somerset Maugham, and Ian Fleming. Fleming lived there in August 1950 after moving into Flat No. 24 Carlyle Mansions and it is there, while also working for the Sunday Times, that he began writing his first Bond book, Casino Royale. Value (2014): £3.590.000.
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• FLATIRON BUILDING - originally the Fuller Building, is located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, and is considered to be a groundbreaking skyscraper. Upon completion in 1902, it was one of the tallest buildings in the city and one of only two skyscrapers north of 14th Street – the other being the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, one block east. The building sits on a triangular island-block formed by Fifth Avenue, Broadway and East 22nd Street, with 23rd Street grazing the triangle's northern (uptown) peak. As with numerous other wedge-shaped buildings, the name "Flatiron" derives from its resemblance to a cast-iron clothes iron.
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• FLEUR DE LYS - 12-bedrroms and 15-baths, plus a guest house, on 5-gated Beverly Hills acres, 35,000+ square feet. Has been for sale since 2008 by owner philanthropist Suzanne Saperstein, asking price: US$125 mio. (Holmby Hills, CA, U.S.A.).
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• Floating House by Dymitr Malcew - designed for people who appreciate freedom and nature at their doorstep. House offers 2 luxurious bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, kitchen and generous terrace.
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• Franchuk Villa - No. 10 Belgrave Square, Belgravia, London, U.K. Six-story property in Belgravia, central London, has 20-foot ceilings, luxurious fixtures and more than 21,000 square feet of living space. The Victorian Villa was formerly a girl's prep school until 1997. Bought and upgraded in 2006, then received an expensive multi-million overhaul. The lavish amenities include an indoor swimming pool in the basement, a gym, a home theater, a garage room, a news house and much more. The Villa was then purchased by Ukrainian AIDS philanthropist, Elena Franchuk, who renamed it the Franchuk Villa. Valued at US$161,000,000.
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• Frank Sinatra’s NYC Penthouse - 23rd floor, 530 East 72nd Street, New York City, NY 10021, U.S.A. Designed by Ol’ Blue Eyes himself in 1961 and serving as his primary residence until 1972. 3,200-square-foot duplex penthouse: four bedrooms, six bathrooms, contemporary glass staircase, marble fireplace and gourmet kitchen: listed at US$6 million. Dubbed a "Glittering grotto in the sky" by Andy Warhol.

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• Garden of Allah - (1927-1959). Famous apartment/hotel complex in West Hollywood, California, U.S.A., on 8152 Sunset Boulevard between Crescent Heights and Havenhurst, at the east end of the Sunset Strip. The Garden of Allah became home to many celebrities and literary figures.
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• Gardiners Island - Gardiners Bay, East Hampton, New York, U.S.A. It is 6 miles (9.7 km) long, 3 miles (4.8 km) wide and has 27 miles (43 km) of coastline. The island has been owned by the Gardiner family and their descendants for nearly 400 years, and it is the only American real estate still intact as part of an original royal grant from the English Crown. It is one of the larger privately owned islands in the United States.
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• Genthod Maison - CH-1294 Genthod, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. Located in the delightful commune of Genthod on a large plot by the lake, this exceptional property has extremely impressive features. The bold, original architecture includes glass facades providing a breathtaking view over Lake Geneva from all rooms. The house has a 6,942 sq.ft / 645 sq.m living area and a floor area of over 13,993 sq.ft / 1,300 sq.m. The four-storey house (13 rooms) is spread over an area of almost more than 14,000 sq.ft. Price: £50 million.
• Giorgio Armani's Saint-Tropez Getaway - Architectural Digest.
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• GOLD COAST CHICAGO - historic district in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Part of Chicago's Near North Side community area, it is roughly bounded by North Avenue, Lake Shore Drive, Oak Street, and Clark Street.
• golden mile - Ibiza Town, Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain. "At the entrance to the port of Marina Botafoch where the most exclusive shops are, opposite the ancient city of Dalt Vila, overlooking the island of Formentera."
• GOLDEN MILE - Marbella city to Puerto Banús, Spain.
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• Goldeneye - the late Ian Fleming's estate in Oracabessa, Jamaica. Rents for US$5,500 per night.
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• GOSMAN ESTATE - nine bedrooms, a ballroom and a conservatory as party of its 62,000 square foot expanse. It also has a 48-car garage. Sold by Donald Trump for US$100 mio. in 2008. Billionaire's Row, Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
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• Greystone Mansion & Gardens - completed in 1928 for the son of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny, Greystone Mansion & Gardens is a Beverly Hills and Los Angeles treasure. The City of Beverly Hills purchased the property in 1965, and in 1971 the entire 18.3 acre site was formally dedicated as a public park. Greystone was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and in 2013 was designated Beverly Hills Local Historic Landmark No. 4. Greystone Mansion & Gardens is a popular event site for weddings, corporate events, photo shoots, meetings and other private functions. Long an iconic location for motion picture and television shoots, Greystone has been featured in dozens of films, including The Big Lebowski, Spider-Man, The Social Network, and There Will Be Blood.

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• HALA RANCH - 15-bedroom, 16-bath, 56,000-square-foot main house that is larger than the US White House, plus several outbuildings, its own water treatment plant, gas pumps, and other bells and whistles to make it a completely self-contained compound: 90-plus-acre estate: US$49 mio. Owner: hedge fund billionaire John Paulson. (Starwood Community, Aspen, Colorado, U.S.A.).
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• Halston House - New York townhouse designed by famed midcentury architect Paul Rudolph recently sold for $18 million to fashion designer Tom Ford. The estate was once owned by legendary fashion designer Halston and has been host to many glamorous parties attended by the likes of Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, and Liza Minnelli, who was known to stay in the upstairs guest suite. 101 East 63rd Street, New York City, NY 10065, U.S.A.
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• Hammersmith Farm - Victorian mansion and surrounding property was the childhood home of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. The property hosted the wedding reception of Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy. During his presidency, Kennedy spent enough time at Hammersmith Farm that it was referred to as the "Summer White House".
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• Hardwick Hall - architecturally significant Elizabethan country houses in England. Built between 1590–1597 for the formidable Bess of Hardwick, it was designed by the architect Robert Smythson, an exponent of the Renaissance style of architecture, Hardwick Hall is one of the earliest examples of the English interpretation of the style, which came into fashion, having slowly spread from Florence. Its arrival in Britain fortuitously coincided with the period when it was no longer necessary or legal to fortify a domestic dwelling. Ownership of the house was transferred to the National Trust in 1959. Today, it is fully open to the public.
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• HEARST CASTLE | SAN SIMEON - 750 Hearst Castle Road, San Simeon, CA 93452-9741, U.S.A. National and California Historical Landmark mansion located on the Central Coast of California, United States. It was designed by architect Julia Morgan between 1919 and 1947 for newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who died in 1951. Hearst formally named the estate "La Cuesta Encantada" ("The Enchanted Hill"), but usually called it "the ranch". Hearst Castle and grounds are also sometimes referred to as "San Simeon" without distinguishing between the Hearst property and the adjacent unincorporated area of the same name. Valued at US$191 mio. (2014).
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• Hearst Quintuplex Penthouse - 137 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10024, U.S.A. A "chateau in the sky" - 17 rooms, triplex cooperative with 7,000 square feet inside, and another 7,000 square feet outside, all on three levels with multiple galleries, a gymnasium and media room, and rooms with names that suggest their opulent history: the Greek Room, the English Room, the Julius Caesar Room. The Hearst penthouse leaves out no extravagant feature: Soaring ceilings 30 feet high and open views of the Hudson River and the George Washington Bridge characterize the home’s interior. The grand living room features a fireplace and south-facing terrace that connects to a chef’s kitchen. The listing describes the master bedroom suite as "palatial" with a full bath and dressing room. Price: US$38 million.
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• HEATH HALL - 59 The Bishops Avenue, Hampstead, London N2 0BE, England. The most expensive UK home on open market: £100 million (August 24, 2012). On March 18, 2013 the priced was reduced to: £65 million.
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• Highclere Castle - country house in the Jacobethan style, with park designed by Capability Brown. The 1,000-acre (400 ha) estate is in Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, about 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Newbury, Berkshire. It is the country seat of the Earl of Carnarvon, a branch of the Anglo-Welsh Herbert family. Highclere Castle is the main filming location for the British television period drama Downton Abbey.
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• Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens - 4155 Linnean Avenue NW, Washington, DC, U.S.A. The former residence of businesswoman, socialite, philanthropist and collector Marjorie Merriweather Post, Hillwood is known for its large decorative arts collection that focuses heavily on the House of Romanov, including Fabergé eggs. Other highlights are 18th and 19th century French art and one of the country's finest orchid collections.
• HOLMBY HILLS - affluent neighborhood in the district of Westwood in western Los Angeles, United States. It is bordered by the city of Beverly Hills on the east, Wilshire Boulevard on the south, Westwood on the west, and Bel Air on the north. Sunset Boulevard is the area's principal thoroughfare which divides Holmby Hills into north and south sections. However, Holmby Hills can be recognized by its unique street lamps.
• HOMES OF THE RICH - "The Web's #1 Luxury Real Estate Blog."
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• HÔTEL LAMBERT - hôtel particulier, a grand mansion townhouse, on the Quai Anjou, Île Saint-Louis, Paris IVème, France. In September 2007, Prince Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani, brother of the Emir of Qatar bought the Hôtel Lambert from the Rothschilds for the purported sum of about 80 million euros (US$111 million).
• How big is Mitt Romney’s California house? Here, compare it to yours. - The Washington Post.

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• Jackson Land & Cattle Ranch - 1,750 acres, US$175 million. Jackson Hole, Teton County, Wyoming. America's most expensive home for cowboys.
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• JIN MAO TOWER - 88-story, 1,380 ft / 421 m, landmark skyscraper in the Lujiazui area of the Pudong district of Shanghai, People's Republic of China. It contains offices and the Shanghai Grand Hyatt hotel.
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• Joyce Grove - Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, England, U.K. Completed in 1908, Joyce Grove Mansion is a large Jacobean style building designed by famous landscape architect Charles Edward Mallows (1864–1915) for Robert Fleming (1845–1933), founder of Robert Fleming and Co. merchant bank. "Did Ian Fleming base Goldfinger's house on Joyce Grove?" Joyce Grove has been a filming location for British television shows, documentaries and one movie.
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• Kennedy Winter White House - 1095 North Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A. La Guerida (“bounty of war”) was built by architect Addison Mizner in Palm Beach in 1923 for Rodman Wanamaker of Philadelphia, heir to the Wanamaker’s department store fortune. It was later purchased by Joseph Kennedy in 1933 during the depths of the Great Depression for a paltry US$120,000, and eventually would become President John F. Kennedy’s “Winter White House”. Lists for US$38.5 million.
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• Kensington Palace Gardens - street in west central London with some of the most expensive property in the world. Nicknamed "Billionaires Row."
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• KINGDOM TOWER - skyscraper proposed for construction near Jeddah (in the new Kingdom City), Saudi Arabia. At 1 mile (1,600 m; 5,280 ft) tall, it would be the tallest building built to date.
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• Kingscote - "Kingscote is a landmark of the Gothic Revival style in American architecture. Its appearance in Newport marked the beginning of the "cottage boom" that would distinguish the town as a veritable laboratory for the design of picturesque houses throughout the 19th century."
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• Kinross House - late 17th-century country house overlooking Loch Leven, near Kinross in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Construction of the house was begun in 1686, by the architect Sir William Bruce as his own home. It is regarded as one of his finest works, and was called by Daniel Defoe "the most beautiful and regular piece of Architecture in Scotland". The house, which is undoubtedly the most important early classical mansion in Scotland.

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• LA BELLE ÉPOQUE PENTHOUSE APARTMENT - Monaco. World's (new) most expensive apartment / duplex penthouse: 17,500 square feet sold for €240 / £199 / US$308 million by British developers Christian and Nick Candy on September 13, 2010, is thought to have been purchased by a member of Dubai's royal family, the Al-Mahktoums, headed by the immensely wealthy Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum. In 2014 acquired for a reported $300 million by Dmitry Rybolovlev
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• LA PAUSA - Avenue de la Torraca, 06190 Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. It was designed and built by the French fashion designer Coco Chanel in the early 1930s, and owned by Chanel until 1953. Situated above the village of Roquebrune, the house enjoys views toward Menton and the French border with Italy on one side, and Monaco on the other. Its name refers to the legend that Mary Magdalene "paused" near here on her journey from Jerusalem following the crucifixion of Jesus.
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• LA POSTA VECCHIA - Palo Laziale, 00055 Palo Laziale (Roma), Italy.  LHW CNT "A Roman villa, 17th century castle outbuilding and the home of billionaire J. Paul Getty, La Posta Vecchia has a unique history that couldn’t be more Italian if it tried. If you’re in love with everything Roman La Posta Vecchia is the place for you. We are comfortably situated for exploring the monuments of the Eternal City, the wealth of ancient towns in the surrounding area and accessing Fiumicino airport."
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• La Reverie - 1415 South Ocean Boulevard, Palm Beach, FL 33480, U.S.A. 84,626 square foot mega-mansion owned by Sydell Miller designed by architect Jeffrey W. Smith. The home contains 10 bedrooms, 19 bathrooms, a tennis court and a swimming pool. Cost an estimated US$40 million to build.
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• Le Carré d’Or | Golden Triangle - 83990 Saint-Tropez, France.
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• LE PROVENÇAL RESIDENCE - built in 1926 by the extremely wealthy American named Frank Jay Gould, the son of financier Jay Gould. Juan-les-Pins, France.
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• LEHMAN ART HOUSE - 7 West 54th Street, New York City, NY, U.S.A. Built by architect John H. Duncan for Philip Lehman, an art collector and former head of Lehman Brothers, in 1899-1900. Constructed in the French beaux-arts style. The asking price of US$65,000,000 makes the art house New York’s most expensive office property on a price-per-square-foot basis to just over US$3,000 per square foot.
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• Lincoln House - Mumbai’s former US consulate (previously known as Wankaner House) sets Indian record for property deal. The property was originally built for the Maharaja of Wankaner. The 50,000 sq. ft. heritage mansion was bought by industrialist Cyrus Poonawalla for Rs 7.5 billion (US$ 113 million) in September, 2015.
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• LIPSTICK BUILDING - 453 ft / 138 m tall skyscraper located at 885 Third Avenue, between East 53rd Street and 54th Street, New York City, NY, U.S.A.
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• LOCKSLEY HALL - one of the most expensive homes in California (Tony Belvedere Island, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.). 10,000 square foot home: US$48 mio.
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• London Bridge Tower - also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower: 32 London Bridge Street, London Bridge Quarter, Southwark, London, England, U.K. It will open to the public on February 1, 2013. It will be the tallest building in the European Union with 95 floors and the 45th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall.
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• Longleat - English stately home, currently the seat of the Marquesses of Bath. It is noted for its Elizabethan country house, maze, landscaped parkland and safari park. The house is set in over 900 acres (360 ha) of parkland, landscaped by Capability Brown, with 100,000 acres (40,000 ha) of woods and farmland. It was the first stately home to open to the public, and also claims the first safari park outside Africa.
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• Louis Vuitton House - Louis Vuitton Malletier, 18 Rue Louis Vuitton, 92600 Asnières-sur-Seine, France. It was here that Louis Vuitton set up his workshop in 1859. Until 1977, the Asnières workshop was actually the sole Louis Vuitton production facility in the world.
• LUNAR EMBASSY - "Buy yourself some space!" The founders and leaders of the extraterrestrial real estate market. THE ONLY COMPANY in the world to posess a legal basis and copyright for the sale of lunar, and other extraterrestrial property within the confines of our solar system.
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• Lyme Park - large estate located south of Disley, Cheshire, U.K. The estate is managed by the National Trust and consists of a mansion house surrounded by formal gardens, in a deer park in the Peak District National Park. The house is the largest in Cheshire, and has been designated by English Heritage. The estate was granted to Sir Thomas Danyers in 1346 and passed to the Leghs of Lyme by marriage in 1388. It remained in the possession of the Legh family until 1946 when it was given to the National Trust. The house dates from the latter part of the 16th century.

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• Manhattan's Gold Coast - the Upper East Coast rectangle formed by Fifth and Park Avenues between Fifty-Ninth and Ninety-Sixth Streets.
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• Mar-A-Lago - built 1924-1927, is the name of the Marjorie Merriweather Post estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Post built the house with her (then) husband, Edward F. Hutton. The house was designed by Joseph Urban. Upon her death in 1973 Marjorie Post willed the 17-acre (69,000 m²) estate to the U.S. Government as a retreat for Presidents and visiting foreign dignataries. The mansion was not however used for this purpose, prior to being declared a National Historic Landmark in 1980. Mar-A-Lago has frequently hosted the International Red Cross Ball, an annual white tie, tails, and tiara ball. Founded by Mrs. Post, it has a history of attracting wealthy socialites and ambassadors from across the world in support of the mission of the American Red Cross. Now home to the Mar-A-Lago Club, the 126-room, 110,000-square-foot (10,219 m²) estate is owned by Donald Trump.
• MARBELLA'S GOLDEN MILE - Marbella city to Puerto Banús, Spain.
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• Marble House - "Marble House was built between 1888 and 1892 for Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. It was a summer house, or "cottage", as Newporters called them in remembrance of the modest houses of the early 19th century. But Marble House was much more; it was a social and architectural landmark that set the pace for Newport's subsequent transformation from a quiet summer colony of wooden houses to the legendary resort of opulent stone palaces."
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• Meadow Lane - Southampton, NY, U.S.A. The Hamptons' Billionaire Lane. The Hamptons are awash with ritzy addresses, but perhaps no street boasts more billionaires than Southampton’s 5-mile-long Meadow Lane.
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• MI 6 Building - the SIS Building or MI6 Building at Vauxhall Cross houses the headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, MI6). It is located at 85 Albert Embankment in Vauxhall, a south western part of central London, United Kingdom, on the bank of the River Thames beside Vauxhall Bridge. Inaugurated July 1994. Architect Terry Farrell's design for the SIS building was influenced by 1930s industrial modernist architecture such as Bankside and Battersea Power Stations and Mayan and Aztec religious temples.
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• MIAPOLIS - proposed skyscraper planned for construction on Watson Island in Miami, Florida, U.S.A. If approved, constructed, and completed, the building would stand at 975 m. (3,200 ft.), with 160 floors, surpassing the Burj Khalifa in Dubai as the world's tallest skyscraper. It could be the world's tallest LEED-certified tower.
• Millionaires' Miles | Millionaires' Rows | Alpha Streets in the world - the exclusive residential neighborhoods of various cities, often along one scenic strip such as a riverside or hilltop drive, or a wide city boulevard.
• Modernist Villa Is Reborn on the French Riviera - The New York Times.
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• MONTE-CARLO'S CARRÉ D'OR - the "Carré d'Or" boutiques bear the most famous names in luxury and offer you the latest creations from fashion designers such as Hermès, Céline, Christian Dior, Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Chanel, Prada, Ichthys and more. The Place du Casino and the neighbouring roads (Avenue Monte-Carlo, Avenue des Beaux Arts, Allées Lumières) create one enormous jewellery shop with Cartier, Chopard, Van Cleef Arpels, Bulgari, Piaget, Repossi and others. For art lovers, the many antique dealers or designers are available to you, including Fersen, Adriano Ribolzi, Gismondi and many more famous names.
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• NEW AMERICAN HOME 2009 - "Net zero-energy home covered in a blanket of green." Showcase home in Las Vegas full of design ideas and energy-efficient technologies applicable to any size home, anywhere in the country.
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• New Century Global Center - Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. World's largest building: 500 metres long, 400 metres wide and 100 metres high, a 1.76-million-square-metre-mega-building. (The building is so large it is capable housing 20 Sydney Opera Houses and is almost three times the size of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S.A.). Multifunctional building in the Tianfu New Area of Chengdu, China. World's biggest standalone complex. About 400,000 sq m of the building will be devoted to shopping. It will also house offices, conference rooms, a university complex, two commercial centres, hotels, an IMAX cinema, a "Mediterranean village", a pirate ship and skating rink. The centrepiece of the building will be a 5000 square metre artificial beach, a giant screen 150 metres long and 40 metres high will form the horizon and offer sunrises and sunsets.
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• NEW YORK'S CLOCK TOWER BUILDING PENTHOUSE - US$18 mio. 1 Main Street, Apt. 16, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
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• NEWPORT MANSIONS - Newport County, Rhode Island, U.S.A. Official website of The Preservation Society of Newport County. The Preservation Society of Newport County is a non-profit organization whose mission is to protect, preserve, and present an exceptional collection of house museums and landscapes in one of the most historically intact cities in America. "We hold in public trust the Newport Mansions which are an integral part of the living fabric of Newport, Rhode Island. These sites exemplify three centuries of the finest achievements in American architecture, decorative arts, and landscape design spanning the Colonial era to the Gilded Age."
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• Ochre Court - large châteauesque mansion built at a cost of US$4.5 million in 1892. It is the second largest of the Newport mansions as the summer home of wealthy New York banker and developer, Ogden Goelet. Given as a gift by their son, Robert, to the Religious Sisters of Mercy in 1947. Originally housed the entire Salve Regina University, it now houses the school's administrative offices.
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• Olympic Tower - 641 Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY 10022, U.S.A. 51-story building in Midtown Manhattan. It is between East 51st Street and East 52nd Street. Built in 1975, it was constructed on a site that was occupied by a Best & Company Store that was built in 1947. It contains 225 condominium apartments and more than 250,000 square feet (23,000 m2) of office space and retail space. Situated next to St. Patrick's Cathedral, it offers views of the cathedral's buttresses and Fifth Avenue. Upon construction, it became a prime real estate location for the glitterati of that time. It was constructed as a joint venture with Aristotle Onassis and his company, Victory Development. The completed building housed some of the most luxurious condos in the world at that time. Adnan Khashoggi had a swimming pool installed in his after the building was constructed; and other notables also lived there.
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• ONE HYDE PARK - 100 Knightsbridge, London, OL9 6AA, England, U.K. Apartments: £20-£100 mio.
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• One Madison - luxury residential condominium tower located on 23rd Street between Broadway and Park Avenue South, at the foot of Madison Avenue, across from Madison Square Park in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York City.
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• One Madison Triplex Penthouse - Rupert Murdoch pays US$57.25 to own the top four floors at One Madison, the slender, 60-story glass tower on E. 23rd St.
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• One Sutton Place South - located in Beekman/Sutton Place between East 56th Street & East 57th Street, New York City, NY 10022, U.S.A. 14-story, 46-unit cooperative apartment house in the Sutton Place neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, overlooking the East River between 56th and 57th streets. The building was designed and completed in 1927 by Rosario Candela and Cross and Cross. The building is topped by a penthouse, a 17-room unit that has 5,000 square feet (460 m²) of interior space and 6,000 square feet (560 m²) of terraces that wrap entirely around it. The building was built by the Phipps family and the penthouse was created originally for Amy Phipps as a duplex. When her son, Winston Guest, the polo player and husband of garden columnist C. Z. Guest, took the apartment over.
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• One Times Square - also known as 1475 Broadway, the New York Times Building, the New York Times Tower, or simply as the Times Tower, is a 25 story, 395 foot (110.6 m) high skyscraper, designed by Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz, located at 42nd Street and Broadway in New York City. The tower was originally built to serve as the headquarters of the local newspaper, The New York Times.
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• OPUS HONG KONG - Frank Gehry designed building on 53 Stubbs Road on Hong Kong Island. An apartment in a luxury building in Hong Kong was sold for HK$470 million (US$61 million) - square-feet unit is US$9,773/sq. ft., making it the most expensive apartment in Asia (August 27, 2012).

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• Park Place - near Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. Britain’s most expensive home, grade II listed mansion, sold for £140million (2011) to Andrei Borodin. It once belonged to Frederick Prince of Wales and has 30,000 square feet of living space and comes with 200 acres of parklands, listed monuments, house, cottages, stables and a boat house.
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• Payne Whitney House - historic building at 972 Fifth Avenue, south of 79th Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed in the High Italian Renaissance style by architect Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead & White. Completed in 1909 as a private residence for businessman William Payne Whitney and his family, the building has housed the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States since 1952. The house has a five-story-tall gray-granite facade that is curved slightly outward. Each story is horizontally separated by an entablature. The interiors of the Payne Whitney mansion were designed in 16th- and 17th-century Renaissance styles. The first floor includes a rotunda that was decorated with an artwork attributed to Michelangelo, as well as the Venetian Room, a reception room that William Payne Whitney's wife Helen Hay Whitney particularly valued.

• Penthouse at the Pierre Hotel - New York's most expensive home: the iconic three-floor (41st, 42nd, and 43rd floors) triplex penthouse atop Manhattan's Pierre Hotel with 16 bedrooms, six bathrooms and five fireplaces beneath 23-foot ceilings goes on sale for US$125 million.
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• PETRONAS TWIN TOWERS - 1,482.6 ft / 451.9 m 88 floors (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). They were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004 until surpassed by Taipei 101, but they remain the tallest twin building in the world.
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• PICKFAIR - mansion on 1143 Summit Drive, Beverly Hills, California named as an amalgamation of the names of its original residents, silent film actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. US$60 mio.
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• Pierre Cardin's Palais Bulles (Bubble Palace) - Théoule-sur-Mer, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. "Revolutionary property of approx. 1.200 sq m designed by the architect Antti Lovag, the "Bubble Palace" is at the forefront of contemporary architecture. This unique palace assembled by a bubble cluster, offers a panoramic lounge, a reception room and 10 suites decorated by contemporary artists. The 500-seat outdoor auditorium overlooks the sea while facing the breathtaking bay of Cannes. The gardens and water ponds and swimming pools assemble into a precursor paradise stretching over more than 8.500 sq m ground." Price: approx. US$455.
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• Peninsula House - Overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, the Guarujá Peninsula House is a coastal retreat in São Paulo, Brazil.
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• Pinnacle House - Montana, U.S.A. Luxury ski-lodge home owned by Tim Blixseth and valued at US$155 million.
• PLATINUM TRIANGLE - informal name for three adjacent Los Angeles neighborhoods that are generally regarded as the most lavish in the immediate Los Angeles area. The Platinum Triangle is situated in Los Angeles Westside and is formed by Beverly Hills, its own city within Los Angeles County, along with two Los Angeles city neighborhoods, Bel Air and Holmby Hills.
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• PLAYBOY MANSION - 10236 Charing Cross Road, Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, CA 90024, U.S.A. The house is 21,987 sq ft and sits on 5.3 acres. It was built by architect Arthur R. Kelly in 1927 and acquired by Playboy from Louis D. Statham in 1971 for $1.1 million. Playboy Mansion for sale: US$200 million - Daily Mail.
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• President Viktor Yanukovych's US$75 Mio. palace - now Museum of Corruption, Mesjihirija. The palatial compound of Viktor Yanukovych, the former president of Ukraine, was opened to the public shortly after he fled Kiev in February 2014.
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• RAZOR Residence - "Residence as Art." Offered at US$32 mio. Designed by architect Wallace E. Cunningham. Constructed from white polished concrete and floor-to-ceiling glass. Resting high above Torrey Pines State Reserve, this 11,000-square-foot piece de resistance showcases 4 bedrooms and 6 baths, fabulous two level guest house and features private access to Black’s Beach.(La Jolla, California, U.S.A.).
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• Residence ANTILIA - Altamount Rd, Tardeo, Mumbai, MH 400026, India. World's largest home: 400,000 square feet, 27-floor personal home in South Mumbai belonging to businessman Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries. A full-time staff of 600 maintains the residence, reportedly the most expensive home in the world: between US$1 billion and $2 billion.
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• Rietveld SchrÖder House - Prins Hendriklaan 50, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Built in 1924 by Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld for Mrs. Truus SchrÖder-SchrÄder and her three children.
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• River House - co-op apartment building located at 435 East 52nd Street in Manhattan, New York City. Constructed in 1931 on the site of a former cigar factory. Originally, the building featured a pier where residents could dock their yachts, but that amenity was lost with the construction of the FDR Drive. The building has a gated cobblestone courtyard featuring a fountain. The building's 26 story tower is decorated in an Art Deco style. Historically, the co-op board was notorious for turning away applicants who failed to meet strict liquidity requirements or whose "comings and goings would attract unwelcome publicity to the River House." Famously, Gloria Vanderbilt was rejected by the board in 1980. She accused the board of racism (she was in a relationship with African-American singer Bobby Short), while the board claimed she had been rejected on her merits. Other celebrities alleged to have been rejected by the board include Richard Nixon, Diane Keaton and Joan Crawford. Well known residents of this block have included Nancy and Henry Kissinger and Susan and John Gutfreund. $130 Million River House Residence Is Now NYC's Most Expensive Home.
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• Rosecliff - "Commissioned by Nevada silver heiress Theresa Fair Oelrichs in 1899, architect Stanford White modeled Rosecliff after the Grand Trianon, the garden retreat of French kings at Versailles. After the house was completed in 1902, at a reported cost of $2.5 million, Mrs. Oelrichs hosted fabulous entertainments here, including a fairy tale dinner and a party featuring famed magician Harry Houdini."
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• Rosewood Estate - 23,000-square-foot estate in Bel Air, California, U.S.A. The Georgian estate, known as "The Rosewood Mansion," has nine bedrooms and an excessive 20 bathrooms. The home looks like it's out of the 18th century, but was just built in 2005. Put on the market in 2012 for US$46 million.
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• Rough Point - home of Doris Duke — heiress, philanthropist and art collector. One of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, now open to the public as a museum. It is an English Manorial style home designed by architectural firm Peabody & Stearns for Frederick William Vanderbilt Construction on the red sandstone and granite began in 1887 and completed 1892. It is located on Bellevue Avenue and borders the Cliff Walk and overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. The gardens were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted’s firm.
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• RUBLYOVKA - Moscow's "Beverly Hills" (Moscow, Russia). Unofficial name of a prestigious residential area west of Moscow, Russia. The name derives from the name of the highway: Rublyovskoye shosse. There is no official administrative unit called "Rublyovka", but this name has become popular in society and in mass media. Rublyovskoe Highway has been a place for the privileged ever since it was the Tsars road’ in the 16th century: for the entire Romanov dynasty. Russian rulers Mikhail Fyodorovich, Aleksey Mikhaylovich, Peter the Great and Catherine the Great made pilgrimages to the Savino-Storozhevsky Monastery by this road. This is where the dachas of Lenin, Stalin were located, as well as the summer residences of all the subsequent general secretaries, from Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev. Their sidekicks also settled here (Anastas Mikoyan, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Nikolai Yezhov) – side-by-side with famous scientists, artists and writers (Mstislav Rostropovich, Andrei Sakharov, Dmitry Shostakovich), and foreign diplomats. And they all lived on a small stretch of highway that is only 35 kilometers long. The residences of many Government officials and successful businesspeople are located along Rublevka. Real estate prices there are some of the highest in the world.

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• San Francisco's Gold Coast - Pacific Heights is an affluent neighborhood of San Francisco, California. It is located in one of the most scenic and park-like settings in Northern California, offering panoramic views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Bay, the Palace of Fine Arts, Alcatraz and the Presidio. The section of Broadway Street extending from Divisadero to Lyon Street is known as the "Gold Coast."
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• SEAGRAM BUILDING - stands 515 feet (157 m) tall with 38 stories, and was completed in 1958. It stands as one of the finest examples of the functionalist aesthetic and a masterpiece of corporate modernism. It was designed as the headquarters for the Canadian distillers Joseph E. Seagram's & Sons with the active interest of Phyllis Lambert, the daughter of Samuel Bronfman, Seagram's CEO. It has the lowest Energy Star rating of any building in New York, at 3 out of 100. Located at 375 Park Avenue, between 52nd Street and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The structure was designed by German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe while the lobby and other internal aspects were designed by Philip Johnson.
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• Seaview Terrace - also known as the Carey Mansion, is a sprawling mansion located in Newport, Rhode Island. It was designed in the French Renaissance Revival Châteauesque style, and completed in 1925. It was the last of the great "Summer Cottages" constructed, and is the fifth-largest of Newport's mansions - after The Breakers, Ochre Court, Belcourt Castle, and Rough Point.
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• Shanghai Tower - No. 51 Lujiazui Road W., Pudong district of Shanghai, China. Upon its completion in 2014, the building will stand approximately 632 metres (2,073 ft) high and will have 121 stories, with a total floor area of 380,000 m² (4,090,000 sq ft).
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• SHANGHAI WORLD FINANCE CENTER - 100 Century Ave, Pudong, Shanghai, China. 1,614 ft / 492 m 101 floors. Otherwise known as "The Vertical Complex City".
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• Shangri La - 4055 Papu Circle, Honolulu, HI 96816, U.S.A. Islamic-style mansion built by heiress Doris Duke near Diamond Head just outside Honolulu, Hawaii. It is now owned by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art (DDFIA) in cooperation with the Honolulu Museum of Art, and open to the public for tours; an admission fee is charged. Construction of Shangri La began in 1937, after Doris Duke's 1935 honeymoon which took her through the Islamic world. For nearly 60 years afterwards, Miss Duke commissioned and collected artifacts for the house, forming a collection of about 3,500 objects. It was designed by Marion Sims Wyeth.
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• SHEATS GOLDSTEIN RESIDENCE - house designed and built between 1961 and 1963 by American architect John Lautner in Beverly Crest, Los Angeles, California, just a short distance from the Beverly Hills border. The house is an example of American Organic Architecture that derives its form as an extension of the natural environment and of the individual to whom it was built.
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• SIERRA TOWERS - residential 31-story high-rise condominium building in West Hollywood, California, U.S.A. The building is the tallest residential tower in the greater Los Angeles Area. The building was converted to condominiums in 1974. A handful of celebrities own condominiums in the 146-unit building.
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• Skibo castle - located to the west of Dornoch in the Highland county of Sutherland, Scotland overlooking the Dornoch Firth. Although largely of the 19th century, and early 20th century, when it was the home of industrialist Andrew Carnegie. It is now operated as the Carnegie Club, a members-only hotel and country club.
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• SKORPIOS - private island in the Ionian Sea, Greece. Mainly known as the private island of the late Greek shipping billionaire Aristotle Onassis. Bought in April, 2013 by Ekaterina Rybolovleva, 24, daughter of Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev.
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• Sky City - Changsha, Hunan in south-central China. 838 m (2,749 ft) tall skyscraper. When completed, it would become the tallest building in the world.
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• SLOANE RANGER - the term is a punning portmanteau of "Sloane Square", a location in Chelsea, London, U.K. Famed for the wealth of residents and frequenters.
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• Somerleyton Hall - country house in Britain. It is located in the village of Somerleyton near Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. Most famous for it’s beautiful gardens. The formal gardens cover 12 acres (49,000 m²). They feature a yew hedge maze created by William Andrews Nesfield in 1846, and a ridge and furrow greenhouse designed by Joseph Paxton, the architect of The Crystal Palace. There is also a walled garden, an aviary, a loggia and a 90 metre long pergola covered with roses and wisteria.
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• Sotogrande - San Roque, Cádiz, Spain. Established in 1964. The largest privately owned residential development in Andalusia. Originally a gated community, it is located in the municipality of San Roque, Cádiz, Spain, southern Europe and is composed of a 20 square kilometres (8 sq mi) stretch from the Mediterranean Sea 25 km east of Gibraltar, back into the foothills of Sierra Almenara, providing contrasting views of sea, hills, cork forests and green fairways, including the Rock of Gibraltar and Morocco. Some of the richest and most powerful families of Spain and Gibraltar have summer homes in Sotogrande.
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• Stratosphere - tower, hotel, and casino located on 2000 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, Nevada 89109, U.S.A.
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• Sunflower House - Port de la Selva, Girona, Spain.
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• Sutton Place - 3 miles N.E. of Guilford, Surrey, England. A Tudor holding which once included more than 700 acres and dates back to 1523. It was given by Henry VIII to a courtier, Sir Richard Weston, in return for his condemning Lord Buckingham to death. Within the main house still sits the blood-stained ruff of Sir Thomas More and a crystal pomegranate that once belonged to Catherine of Aragon. In the 20th century, the house was rented by newspaper proprietor Alfred Harmsworth and later owned by hermit billionaire J. Paul Getty and US oil magnates Stanley Seeger and Frederick Koch. Its current owner is the Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov.

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• TAIPEI 101 - 1,670.60 ft / 509.2 m 101 floors. Formerly known as the Taipei World Financial Center, is a landmark skyscraper located in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan. The building ranked officially as the world's tallest from 2004 until the opening of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai in 2010. In July 2011, the building was awarded LEED Platinum certification, the highest award in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system and became the tallest and largest green building in the world.
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• The Albany - or Albany, depending on when you are speaking and how fashionable you are (now, at the beginning of the 21st century, 'Albany', without the definitive article, is de rigeur). One of London's most exclusive addresses since 1803. Located right off Piccadilly: between Sackville Street and Burlington House (or the Royal Academy). It was converted by Henry Holland into 69 bachelor apartments (known as "sets") in 1802-3. The residents have included such famous names as the poet Lord Byron and the future Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, and numerous members of the aristocracy. During the Second World War, one of the buildings received significant damage from a German bomb, but was reconstructed after the war to appear as an exact replica. Residents no longer have to be bachelors, although children under the age of 14 are not permitted to live there. The apartments or "sets" are individually owned as Flying freeholds, with the owners known as "Proprietors"; a set that came up for sale in 2007 had an advertised guide price of £2 million.
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• The Beresford - 211 Central Park West, between 81st and 82nd Streets, is a luxury, 23-floor apartment building in New York City. Designed by the architect Emery Roth, The Beresford, completed in 1929, is one of the most prestigious addresses in Manhattan and one of city's most elite co-ops running along Central Park West. In recent years, apartments have sold for between US$3 million and US$22 million.
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• THE BISHOPS AVENUE - connects the north side of Hampstead Heath at Kenwood (Hampstead Lane), Hampstead to East Finchley and is on the boundary of the London Boroughs of Barnet and Haringey. It is considered to be one of the wealthiest streets in the world, comparable to a select few ultra-exclusive roads in such other affluent places around the world as Beverly Hills, Monaco and Hong Kong. Many of the houses are influenced by designs of Ancient Greece and Rome and traditional English country houses. It is named after the Bishops Wood through which it runs, formerly owned by the Bishop of London (as was much of the surrounding area) following a land grant in 704. In 1894 the Church of England let building plots for construction of homes on the road. In the 20th century much of the land was sold by the Church. The road is a favourite with the international 'über-rich' and is often referred to by its nickname of "Millionaires' Row" (although recently, it has been referred to as "Billionaires' Row"). This small street of 66 houses and the parallel Winnington Road display a variety of architectural styles.
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• THE BREAKERS - 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A. Built as the Newport summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy United States Vanderbilt family. It is built in a style often described as GOÛT ROTHSCHILD. Designed by renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt and with interior decoration by Jules Allard and Sons and Ogden Codman, Jr., the 70-room mansion has approximately 65,000 sq ft (6,000 sq m) of living space. The home was constructed between 1893 and 1895 at a cost of more than US$12 million (approximately US$337 million in today's dollars adjusted for inflation).
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• The Campanile - at 450 East 52nd Street (in the Beekman Place-Sutton Place area in New York City) is directly across from the prestigious River House and is located at a cul-de-sac beside the East River. Built in 1927, it consists of 16 floor-through apartments and duplexes with unobstructed views up and down the East River. Each apartment offers a private elevator landing and storage unit. This building has a full-time doorman and elevator operator, as well as a live-in super. This historical building features intricate architectural details. In October 1953, GRETA GARBO purchased a seven-room apartment on the fifth floor. She lived there for 37 years, until her death in 1990. REX HARRISON, MARY MARTIN, ETHEL BARRYMORE, THE ROTHCHILDS, H.J. HEINZ also lived at The Campanile. In the 1930’s The Campanile also served as a private entrance and boat landing for the Mayfair Yacht Club.
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• The Clarendon - 137 Riverside Drive / 86th Street, New York City, NY 100024, U.S.A. Opened in 1908. In 1913 William Randolph Hearst bought the entire building from Ranald MacDonald. He had MacDonald's architect, Charles E. Birge, draw plans for further work on the apartment, which already took in the 10th, 11th and 12th floors, plus the addition of a metal and glass marquee at the main entrance. In 1913 or 1922 Hearst took over the eighth and ninth floors and also added the giant rectangular mansard along the 100-foot-long Riverside Drive front. This was really the upper section of what plans identify as a two-story-high "Tapestry Gallery" running the length of the building and furnished with suits of armor, stained glass, tapestries and other artworks. Other rooms were identified as the North Museum and the South Museum, the Greek Room, the English Room, a two-story high Spanish Gallery, the Gothic Room and the Julius Caesar Room. The Clarendon was converted to a co-op in 1985.
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• THE DAKOTA - 1 West 72nd Street, New York City, NY, U.S.A. John Lennon was shot by Mark David Chapman at the entrance of The Dakota where he lived, on Monday, 8 December 1980.
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• The Elms - large mansion, or "summer cottage", located at 367 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, in the United States. The Elms was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer for the coal baron Edward Julius Berwind, and was completed in 1901. Its design was copied from the ChÂteau d'AsniÉres in Asnières-sur-Seine, France. The gardens and landscaping were created by C. H. Miller and E. W. Bowditch, working closely with Trumbauer. The Elms has been designated a National Historic Landmark and today is open to the public.
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• The Floating Seahorse - essentially a boat, not a villa. Will boast three levels, one underwater, one at sea level and an upper deck.
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• THE GHERKIN | 30 ST MARY AXE - 591 ft / 180 m 40 floors (architects: Foster + Partners) (London, U.K.).
• THE GOLDEN MILE - Marbella city to Puerto Banús, Spain.
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• The Halston House - "Manhattan’s Famed Halston House Sells for $18 Million." Fashion designer Tom Ford bought the Upper East Side townhouse, one of architect Paul Rudolph’s most iconic works, for $18 million in 2019. Located on the Upper East Side, the 7,500-square-foot house has four bedrooms, five bathrooms, an elevator, garage, roof terrace. The architecturally significant home, which is one of just three properties in Manhattan that famed midcentury architect Paul Rudolph designed, is culturally important as well. The estate was once owned by legendary fashion designer Halston and has been host to many glamorous parties attended by the likes of Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, and Liza Minnelli, who was known to stay in the upstairs guest suite. 101 East 63rd Street, New York City, NY 10065, U.S.A.
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• The Palm Jumeirah - artificial archipelago created using land reclamation by Nakheel, a company owned by the Dubai government in United Arab Emirates and was designed and developed by HHCP architects. It is located on the Jumeirah coastal area of the emirate of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.).
• THE PLATINUM TRIANGLE - informal name for three adjacent Los Angeles neighborhoods that are generally regarded as the most lavish in the immediate Los Angeles area. The Platinum Triangle is situated in Los Angeles Westside and is formed by Beverly Hills, its own city within Los Angeles County, along with two Los Angeles city neighborhoods, Bel Air and Holmby Hills. U.S.A.
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• THE RAZOR Residence - "Residence as Art." Offered at US$32 mio. Designed by architect Wallace E. Cunningham. Constructed from white polished concrete and floor-to-ceiling glass. Resting high above Torrey Pines State Reserve, this 11,000-square-foot piece de resistance showcases 4 bedrooms and 6 baths, fabulous two level guest house and features private access to Black’s Beach.(La Jolla, California, U.S.A.).
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• The San Remo - 145 Central Park West, New York City. Luxury, 27-floor, co-operative apartment building in Manhattan located between West 74th Street and West 75th Street, three blocks north of The Dakota. Past and present residents of the building include such famous personalities as Stephen Sondheim, Tiger Woods, Steven Spielberg, Donna Karan, Tony Randall, Demi Moore, Glenn Close, Dustin Hoffman, Steve Martin, Demi Moore (US$75 Million Triplex), Bruce Willis, Trey Parker, Eddie Cantor, Robert Stigwood, Marshall Brickman, Jackie Leo, Don Hewitt, Dodi Fayed, Andrew Tobias, Aaron Spelling, and Hedy Lamarr. Rita Hayworth spent her last years there, in a unit beside that of her daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan. In 2007 same-floor residents Bono and Billy Squier went to court over a fireplace. Steve Jobs bought and renovated a penthouse apartment but never lived in it, ultimately selling it to Bono.
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• THE SHARD - also referred to as the Shard of Glass, Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower: 32 London Bridge Street, London Bridge Quarter, Southwark, London, England, U.K. It will open to the public on February 1, 2013. It will be the tallest building in the European Union with 95 floors and the 45th-tallest building in the world, standing 310 m (1,017 ft) tall.
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• THE SPACE NEEDLE - 400 Broad Street, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
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• THE (SPELLING) MANOR - the late Aaron Spelling's Mansion, 56,000-square-foot (5,250 m²), 123-room Los Angeles 6-acres estate, the largest house in California. US$150 mio. (594 S Mapleton Drive, Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California). Owner: Petra Ecclestone (06.2011).
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• The Square Mile - nickname for the City of London. A city within London. The City constituted most of London from its settlement by the Romans in the 1st century AD to the Middle Ages, but the conurbation has since grown far beyond its borders. As the City's boundaries have remained almost unchanged since the Middle Ages, it is now only a tiny part of the metropolis of Greater London, though it remains a notable part of central London. It holds city status in its own right and is also a separate ceremonial county. Area: 2.9 km². London, England, United Kingdom.
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• The Tower House - 29 Melbury Rd, Kensington, London W14 8AB, U.K. Late-Victorian townhouse in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, London, built by the architect and designer William Burges as his home. Designed between 1875 and 1881, in the French Gothic Revival style. Following a period when the house stood empty and suffered vandalism, it was purchased and restored, first by Lady Jane Turnbull, later by the actor Richard Harris and then by the musician Jimmy Page.
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• THE WORLD - The World is another spectacular Nakheel project. Located just off the coast of Dubai, The World is comprised of 300 man-made islands, shaped to form the continents. This incredible development adds over 232 kilometres of new beachfront to Dubai's coastline.
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• THREE PONDS - private estate on 60+ acres: 8 bedrooms, 10 full baths. Interior: 20,000 sq. ft. 18-hole Rees Jones designed golf course. Magnificent formal gardens, rose garden with orangery, over 7000 specimen trees. Two 3-car garages. Asking price: US$68 mio. Bridgehampton North, Bridgehampton, NY 11932, U.S.A.
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• Tour OdÉon Penthouse - US$387/£250 Million Tour Odeon Tower Sky Penthouse in the Principality of Monaco. Sitting atop the second tallest building Tour OdÉon (170 meters high) on Europe’s Mediterranean coastline, the 35,500 sq. ft. five-storey penthouse could become one of the world’s most expensive properties per square meter when it comes onto the market in 2014.
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• Tower of the Americas - 750-foot observation tower / restaurant on the southeastern fringe of Downtown San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
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• TRANQUILITY - with regal presence and overpowering beauty, the alluring estate of Tranquility is one of the largest private landholdings at Lake Tahoe. The property is located on Nevada’s tax favorable side, sequestered in a pine and aspen forest on 210 magical acres of seclusion. 9 bedrooms, 5 baths, 9,147,600 square-foot lot. Asking price: US$75 mio. Lake Tahoe, NV, U.S.A.

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• Villa Astor - Via Marina Grande, 5, 80067 Sorrento (NA), Italy. Perched on a cliff on the Amalfi coastline, Villa Astor is a 19th-century showplace built by Ambassador William Waldorf Astor while he was the U.S. Ambassador to Italy. The most prestigious property in Sorrento, is a magnificent edifice towering above the Gulf of Naples. The Villa and the distinctive garden, one of the 20 most beautiful gardens in Europe on two hectares (4+ acres) of land, face outwards Naples and the Vesuvio with a sheer drop to the sea. For rent. Sleeps 12 in six en-suite bedrooms. The property is suitable for events of up to 70 persons. Priced from US$130,000 weekly.
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• Villa Capra "La Rotonda" - Via della Rotonda, 45, 36100 Vicenza VI, Italy. Renaissance villa just outside Vicenza in northern Italy, and designed by Andrea Palladio (1508-1580).
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• Villa Certosa - Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy. Italy’s former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi's sprawling 168-acre, 68-room, 4,500 square meters holiday residence, which boasts a Roman-style amphitheatre, six swimming pools, an artificial volcano and extensive landscaped gardens. €500 million.
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• Villa Cimbrone - Via S. Chiara, 26, 84010 Ravello (SA), Italy. Dating from at least the 11th century AD, it is famous for its scenic belvedere, the Terrazzo dell'lnfinito (the Terrace of Infinity). The villa is now a hotel, its gardens open to the public. "The most beautiful sight that I have ever seen in the world is the panoramic view from Villa Cimbrone on a bright winter’s day, when the sky and the sea are so vividly blue that it is not possible to distinguish them from each other." - Gore Vidal.
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• Villa Diodati - Chemin de Ruth 9, 1223 Cologny, Switzerland. Mansion in the village of Cologny near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, notable because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with John Polidori in the summer of 1816. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, who had rented a house nearby, were frequent visitors. Because of poor weather, in June 1816 the group famously spent three days together inside the house creating stories to tell each other, two of which were developed into landmark works of the Gothic horror genre: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Vampyre, the first modern vampire story, by John William Polidori. Currently, the villa is owned by Alan Moore Parker and Danish-born Jette Torp Parker Jensen.
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• Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild - 1 Avenue Ephrussi de Rothschild, 06230 Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France. Built on the narrowest part of the Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat peninsula, the villa is one of the most beautiful on the Côte d’Azur. Evocative of an Italian palazzo, the façades of the Villa are rich in references to the Florence and Venice schools, among others. The Villa is surrounded by nine magnificent gardens decorated with patios, waterfalls, ornamental ponds, flowerbeds, shady paths and rare species of trees.

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• Villa Fontanelle - Lake Como, Italy. Situated near the village of Moltrasio the 4 storey and yellow painted building has been built in the 19th century by Lord Charles Currie. There is a 1.2 hectares (3.0 acres) of land attached to it including a park and an anchorage. It was completely renovated in 1980. The estate is owned by Russian millionaire Arkady Novikov since 2008 who bought it for a price of 33 million Euros. It was previously owned by Gianni Versace from 1977 until his murder in 1997.
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• Villa HÜgel - Hügel 15, 45133 Essen, Germany. 19th-century mansion in Bredeney, now part of Essen, Germany. It was built by the industrialist Alfred Krupp in 1870-03 as his main residence and was the home of the Krupp family until after World War II. More recently, the Villa Hügel has housed the offices of the Kulturstiftung Ruhr (Ruhr Cultural Foundation) as well as an art gallery, the historical archive of the Krupp family and company, and a concert venue.
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• Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Via de Vincigliata 26, 50014 Fiesole, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. For almost sixty years Villa I Tatti was the home of Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), the connoisseur whose attributions of early Italian Renaissance painting guided scholarship and collecting in this field for the first half of the twentieth century. It houses the Berenson collection of Italian primitives, and of Chinese and Islamic art, as well as a research library of 140,000 volumes and a collection of 250,000 photographs.
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• Villa La Californie - 18, avenue Coste-Belle, Cannes, France. Picasso's villa in Cannes, southern France. Picasso spent six years at La Californie (1955–61) with his second and last wife Jacqueline Roque. It is now owned by his granddaughter Marina Picasso.
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• Villa La Vigie - Avenue Princesse Grace, 06190 Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. One of the most prestigious villas on the Côte d’Azur thanks to its history, architecture and unique location. The Villa was home to the famous designer Karl Lagerfeld for over ten years. Set on a promontory on the same cape as Monte-Carlo Beach, the Villa La Vigie has a magnificent panoramic view of the Mediterranean, the Principality of Monaco and Roquebrune-Cap-Martin Bay. With a surface area of approximately 600 square metres on three floors, 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2 dressing rooms, high-end appliances and a discreet, elegant décor, this lofty residence overlooks a superb 237 square metre terrace. The villa has its own private road, is surrounded by a tree-covered park and has a Jacuzzi overlooking the sea. The Villa La Vigie CAN BE RENTED on a weekly or monthly basis. It includes 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, a large terrace with a panoramic view and a Jacuzzi. The villa is very practical and has a sober, modern décor with elegant, classic furniture. Marble, columns, fireplaces and high ceilings give the villa a chic and trendy atmosphere.
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• VILLA LEOPOLDA - world's most expensive home: €500 million / US$736 million / £397 million. Present owner: Lily Safra. Villefranche-sur-Mer, Côte d'Azur, France.
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• Villa Les CÈdres - private property built around 1870 on the spot called Petit Cap Ferrat, on the Cap Ferrat in the administrative division of Alpes-Maritimes of France. It was once the property of the Belgian king Leopold II, who bought the property from the heirs of David-Désiré Pollonais. The villa was at the time inhabited by king Leopold II's mistress Blanche Zélie Joséphine Delacroix. In 1924 it was acquired by Alexandre Marnier-Lapostolle, the producer of the Grand Marnier liqueur. From 1976 onwards, it is owned by Société des Produits Marnier-Lapostolle, which cultivates plants used for the famous drink on the estate. There are 20,000 species of plants around the property's gardens. Price: US$1.1 billion.
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• Villa Madama - Via di Villa Madama, 00194 Roma, Italy. Prominent rural house or villa built during the Renaissance designed of the villa from Raphael in 1518. The "Madama" of its name was Margaret of Austria, the same who is remembered in Palazzo Madama in Rome, seat of the Italian Senate. After the death of Clement VII, the villa remained Medici property, first belonging to Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici, and later to Duke Alessandro, Lord of Florence, who married Margaret of Austria, the illegitimate daughter of Charles V, but left her a widow at the age of 15. She married Ottavio Farnese, a nephew of Pope Paul III and was soon widowed again, but at Margaret's death, the villa passed into the Farnese family, Dukes of Parma and Piacenza, who let it slowly fall into ruin. The villa was restored by Carlo, Count Dentice di Frasso, who acquired the property in 1925, and his American wife Countess Dorothy di Frasso, the former Dorothy Cadwell Taylor. Eventually the Frassos leased it to the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, and it was soon purchased by Mussolini in 1941. Villa Madama is now the property of the Italian Government, which uses it for international guests and press conferences.
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• Villa Oleandra - George Clooney's Villa Oleandra in Laglio on Lake Como, Italy. He bought the 22-room Villa Oleandra in 2002 for about US$10million. It previously belonged to the Heinz family.
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• Villa Paul Poiret - Mézy-sur-Seine, Yvelines, France, is an early 1920s Cubism-inspired, and later Art Deco, private house originally designed by architect Robert Mallet-Stevens.
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• Villa San Michele - viale Axel Munthe, 34, 80071 Anacapri (NA), Italy. Built around the turn of the 20th century on the Isle of Capri, Italy, by the Swedish physician and author Axel Munthe. Villa San Michele on Capri in Italy is a magical place quite out of the ordinary. Some people call the villa with its garden a paradise on earth, others regard it as the pearl of the island, a place where for a moment you can step out of this world. Inside the beautiful Villa San Michele it’s possible to organise private events: weddings, symbolic ceremonies, gala dinners, business meetings. It is possible to organise aperitifs or cocktails using our staff of Cafè Casa Oliv.
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• VILLA SAVOIE - 82, rue de Villiers, F-78300 Poissy, France. Designed by Le Corbusier 1931.
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• Villa Tugendhat - Černopolní 45, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic. Historical building in the wealthy neighbourhood of Černá Pole in Brno, Czech Republic. It is one of the pioneering prototypes of modern architecture in Europe, and was designed by the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Built of reinforced concrete between 1928–1930 for Fritz Tugendhat and his wife Greta, the villa soon became an icon of modernism.
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• VILLA WINDSOR - 4, route du Champ d'Entraînement (Bois de Boulogne), Neuilly-sur-Seine, 75016 Paris, France. Leased from the City of Paris in 1952-1986 by the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Then leased to Mohamed Al-Fayed in 1986 who has restored it to its former glory. The result was an extensive catalogue of the life and times of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.
• Vladimir Putin's house in Marbella, Spain - Virtual Globetrotting.

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• Waggoner Ranch - since 1849. 1700 Deaf Smith St, Vernon, Texas, U.S.A. Largest ranch in the U.S. within a single fence. Texas fixer-upper with more than 1,000 oil wells; 6,800 head of cattle; 500 quarter horses; 30,000 acres of cropland; tombstones for legendary cowboys, long-dead dogs, and a horse buried standing up. Favorite of Will Rogers and Teddy Roosevelt. Colorful history of drinking and divorce. Fifteen-minute drive to rib-eyes at the Rusty Spur in Vernon. Ideal for Saudi oil sheiks, billionaire hedge funders, and dot-commers who can tell a cow from a steer. Profitable. Zero debt. Property taxes only $800,000 a year. Price: US$725 million.
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• Walsh Mansion - one of the most important buildings in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located at 2020 Massachusetts Avenue NW. Built in 1903, it is now the Embassy of Indonesia. The Indonesian government bought it back in 1951 for US$335,000, less than half of what it cost Thomas Walsh to build in 1907. The mansion, known as the Walsh-McLean house, was occupied by Thomas Walsh (who died in 1910) and his wife Carrie Bell Reed and their daughter, Evalyn Walsh McLean, up until 1932. The Walsh Mansion, completed in 1903, cost US$835,000 (the most expensive residence in the city at the time) and had 60 rooms, a theater, a ballroom, a French salon, a grand staircase, and US$2 million in furnishings which took several years to purchase and install.
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• Warner Estate - Angelo Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, U.S.A. Jeff Bezos buys lavish Beverly Hills estate that originally belonged to Jack Warner, the late former president of Warner Bros Studios, for record US$165 million. "Only a handful of Beverly Hills houses have ever rivaled the Warner estate. With its 13,600-square-foot Georgian-style mansion, expansive terraces and gardens, two guesthouses, nursery and three hothouses, tennis court, swimming pool, nine-hole golf course and motor court complete with its own service garage and gas pumps, the nine-acre property was - and still is - the archetypal studio mogul's estate, reportedly with the wood floor that Napoleon was standing on when he proposed to Josephine."
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• Wentworth Woodhouse - Wentworth, near Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. "The largest privately-owned house in Europe." It served as "One of the great Whig political palaces". Its East Front is 606-foot (185 m) long, making it the longest country house façade in Europe. It is also the largest private house in the United Kingdom. The house comprises over 200 rooms and covers an area of over 2.5 acres (1.0 ha). It is surrounded by a 180-acre (73 ha) park and by an estate of 15,000-acre (6,100 ha), which are now separately owned.
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• William Starr Miller House - mansion located at 1048 Fifth Avenue, in the Borough of Manhattan on the Upper East Side of New York City. It was originally constructed for the industrialist William Starr Miller. Miller hired the renowned New York-based, Beaux-Arts architectural firm Carrere and Hastings to design a six-story Louis XIII-style townhouse for himself and his family. After Mrs. Miller's death, the townhouse was occupied by Grace Vanderbilt (1870–1953), wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1873–1942). Purchased in 1994 by art dealer and museum exhibition organizer Serge Sabarsky (1912–1996) and cosmetics billionaire Ronald S. Lauder. It is now home to the Neue Galerie, which opened on November 16, 2001. In 2006, Lauder purchased Klimt's painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I from Maria Altmann on behalf of the Neue Galerie. The press reported the price for the Klimt at US$135 million, which would make it at that time the most expensive painting ever sold.
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• WILLIS TOWER - 1,451 ft / 442 m 108 floors (Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.). Formerly known as Sears Tower. At the time of its completion in 1973, it was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York, and it held this rank for nearly 25 years. Willis Tower is the second-tallest building in the United States and the eighth-tallest freestanding structure in the world.
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• WITANHURST House - sixty-five rooms, including 25 bedrooms and a 70-foot ballroom, make Witanhurst in Highgate, North London, the capital’s second largest home, after Buckingham Palace. £95 mio. Witanhurst House, 41 Highgate West Hill, London N6 6LS, England, U.K.
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• Woburn Abbey - comprising Woburn Park and its buildings, was originally founded as a Cistercian abbey in 1145. Taken from its monastic residents by Henry VIII and given to John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford in 1547, it became the seat of the Russell Family and the Dukes of Bedford. When the 12th Duke died in 1953, his son the 13th Duke was exposed to heavy death duties and the Abbey was a half-demolished, half-derelict house. Instead of handing the family estates over to the National Trust, he kept ownership and opened the Abbey to the public for the first time in 1955. It soon gained in popularity as other amusements were added, including Woburn Safari Park on the grounds of the Abbey in 1970. Asked about the unfavourable comments by other aristocrats when he turned the family home into a safari park, the 13th Duke said, "I do not relish the scorn of the peerage, but it is better to be looked down on than overlooked." Famous for it’s beautilful gardens – it’s also home to a safari park.

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• Yongsan Landmark Tower - Yongsan, Seoul, South Korea. World's most expensive building (2016): US$3.45 billion.