Blog Profile / Curbed
| URL : | http://curbed.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Business & Finance / Real Estate | |
| Posts on Regator: | 26945 | |
| Posts / Week: | 97.3 | |
| Archived Since: | January 30, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Globe Trotting: Five Cool Riads, Villas & Flats from Perpetually Sunny Tangier
Last Sunday's episode of the new Anthony Bourdain vehicle Parts Unknown centered on the Moroccan city of Tangier, a surprisingly permissive corner of North Africa. A city rife with expats, Tangier is...
It's Not Easy Being Green: Here Now, an Eco-Friendly Home That's Remote-Controlled
In It's Not Easy Being Green, Curbed pulls back the curtain on cutting-edge, environmentally friendly design, from urban passive houses to green tweaks on suburban living. Have a suggestion for an upcoming column? Pass it along. Photo via Architizer Romania's...
Ikea Wire: BuzzFeed has a genius breakdown of...
BuzzFeed has a genius breakdown of the rise and fall of the typical Ikea shopper—the mazes! the horse meatballs!—and the five stages of grief psychological torment that plagues most patrons of the Swedish furnishings retailer as they navigate the aisles...
Celebrity Real Estate: In Time For Summer, J-Lo Buys Breezy Hamptons Manse
In 2011, Jennifer Lopez was rumored to have dropped some $18M on a beach house in the Hamptons, only to have it come out months later that the deal had crumbled. Today...
Silver Screen Real Estate: Not every vestige from the 1958...
Not every vestige from the 1958 thriller Vertigo is up for public viewing, but a one-bedroom unit in one of the many San Francisco buildings featured in the film has hit the market for $695K. Alfred Hitchcock was such a...
House of the Day: For $4.5M, a Classic Shingle-Style Estate on Cape Cod
Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We'd love to see what you've got. Location: West Falmouth, Mass. Price: $4,500,000...
Dwelling: With its stately limestone façade and...
With its stately limestone façade and subtle Art Deco details, Atlanta's Evans-Cucich House looks like a pretty specimen on a pretty, leafy lot. Yet the property, a landmarked fixer-upper listed for $995K, has quite a sordid past: it was built...
Celebrity Real Estate: With Private Practice DUNZO, Kate Walsh...
With Private Practice DUNZO, Kate Walsh is investing her energies into other things, like selling her Spanish-style home in L.A.'s Los Feliz neighborhood. The 1928 property is on the market for a record high of $4.75M, exactly what Walsh paid...
Authorial Abodes: Inside the 'Fortress of Gratitude' in Dan Brown's N.H. Home
Dan Brown went on The Today Show this morning to talk up his newest book, Inferno, and take Matt Lauer on a tour of his New Hampshire home. The novelist, who's banked more than a quarter of a billion...
On the Market: "Live like a French king on...
"Live like a French king on the Loire Valley!" effuses the brokerbabble for one $1.3M mansion. "Own your own castle, complete with slate-tiled turret. Lovely restored mantels, stained glass and oh, those deliciously curved walls." Nope, this isn't bucolic central...
Preservation Watch: Say Hey to Paris' Starving Artist Stronghold, the 'Aftersquat'
Photo via The Atlantic Cities In 1999, a ragtag group of artsy vagabond-types broke into an abandoned Paris bank building and claimed it as home, founding what The Atlantic Cities calls one of the city's most-visited "bastions of Bohemianism." Since...
Lego Watch: Other than a 400,000-piece Hogwarts, a...
Other than a 400,000-piece Hogwarts, a Ghostbusters HQ, or a 20,000-piece Batcave, what else can one build with the world's astounding 472 billion Legos? According to Movoto: 46,826 medium-sized homes, 2,972 White Houses, and 200 Buckingham Palaces.
The Printed Page: Inside Florence Welch's UK Pad, as Photographed by Vogue
Photo by Angelo Pennetta/Vogue Featured in the May issue of Vogue: the stylish, dilettantish Georgian house owned by Florence and the Machine's red-headed frontwoman Florence Welch. The South London home, Welch's first, is a product of her own glamorous vintage...
Frank Fucking Gehry: Frank Gehry's extremely controversial Eisenhower Memorial—which...
Frank Gehry's extremely controversial Eisenhower Memorial—which has been constantly derided and tweaked since their debut two years ago—have been altered, defended, and explained yet again, this time by Architect Magazine. Still, critics aren't budging: as architecture critic Alexandra Lange tweeted,...
Linkage: Reptile Playgrounds; A Neighbor's Bulldozer Rampage; More!
Photo via Architizer · The Dream Of Reptilian Playground Is Alive in Burr Ridge · For sale: homes of famous fashion designers and executives. · World's worst neighbor goes on a bulldozer rampage. · Breathtaking mirrored images of city skylines....
Back Story: Ten Crazy Facts from Cà d'Zan, The Mansion the Circus Built
Photo: Terence Faircloth/Flickr Next to Hearst Castle or the Biltmore, Florida's Cà d'Zan enjoys little public attention, but it was born out of the same desire to create one of the country's most elaborate private homes. Built in the 1920s...
Globe Trotting: The Swiss firm Herzog & de...
The Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has been tapped for a new building on the Oxford University campus in England: the £30M ($45.8M) Blavatnik School of Government "will appear as stack of discs decreasing in size, unevenly aligned to...
Lifestyles of the Rich and the Richer: Rupert Murdoch Buys $30M Private Vineyard in L.A.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has confirmed—via Twitter, of all things—that he has indeed picked up Bel Air's Moraga Vineyards, the 13-acre estate that former Northrop Grumman CEO Thomas Jones listed for $29.5M...
'Juliet (Balcony) and her Romeo': A $649K Chicago listing shows the...
A $649K Chicago listing shows the world the awesome potential of Juliet balconies—you know, those slivered faux terraces that are really "nothing more than a glorified suicide ledge." In the crop of listing photos, there's a cheesy shot of homeowners...
Architectural Craziness: A Look at Poland's Awesome Underground Salt Architecture
Photo via TeachandLearn/Flickr Ever since the mid-1800s, the incredible underground salt architecture of Wieliczka, Poland—which was recently featured on Gizmodo—has been a hot spot for international tourism, nowadays bringing in an estimated 1.2M people a year. It's no real mystery...