The Westin Valencia is a new luxurious five-star hotel from the Starwood Hotels family which occupies a building formerly serving as a wool factory. The hotel has 135 rooms, 2 restaurants, a lobby bar and an 850 square meter spa complex complete with a swimming pool, Jacuzzi, hamman baths, 10 treatment rooms, a gym, a [...]
London’s Olympic Stadium will seat around 80,000 people, but what makes the stadium unique is that it is being constructed with special flatpack materials which means that it can be easily taken down and moved to another place after the games. Gizmodo shares some details about the stadium. The stadium is to have a permanent [...]
For the last months, residents of Tilburg, Netherlands, could eyewitness artist and architect John Kormeling’s new artistic vision — a rotating house. The house is monumental, amusing and is easily noticed while driving to cultural city of Tilburg. The rotating house associates with the fair, traffic, besides it preserves the architectural style of Tilburg. As [...]
In only two years, Mumbai, India, will see a magestic Cybertecture Egg construction built in one of the most forward-thinking workplaces in the world. The construction is set to have 13 floors with the building harnessing solar and wind power. Green space on the rooftop will dissipate the heat. However, the most impressive and interesting [...]
The Richard E. Jacobs Group is a real estate development company which builds and leases shopping centers, offices, and hotels. After years of hard work the company has become the largest privately held shopping center company in the U.S., owning 45 million square feet of retail space in 40 regional centers. Among them are properties [...]
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have recently bought a 1,000-acre estate in the south of France. The house has a 35 bedrooms, a vineyard, lake, forest, moat, swimming pool, billiards room, indoor pool, his-and-hers gyms, sauna and jacuzzi, a huge banquet hall, cascading stone-walled terraces as well as 20 fountains, water aqueducts and a stream [...]
Actress Sharon Stone has again put her house at 2201 N. Beverly Drive on the market. The 50-year-old celebrity purchased the house in early 2006 for $10,995,000, and even without moving there put it on the market for $12,500,000 soon after. The house has eight baths, an open floor plan, a lagoon pool, tennis court, [...]
The Real Estate Regulatory Agency (RERA) has made a significant step by launching its first official monthly magazine, the Dubai Real Times. The magazine will provide its readers with full information on the Dubai property market as well as serve as a bridge of communication between RERA and stakeholders in the Dubai property sector. Marwan [...]