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Blog Post Archive
Dwelling: A Look Inside Girls Star Jemima Kirke's Childhood Bedroom
Photo via Elle Decor Elle Decor recently unearthed this 1997 spread highlighting the scrappy NYC home of Lorraine Kirke, an English designer and, more interestingly, the mother of actress Jemima Kirke, who now plays Jessa on Girls. The spread features...
Ikea Wire
Ikea is back in the nuptials business, having played wedding venue to a Newark, N.J., couple who met at their local Swedish superstore eight years ago. Where, exactly, did they find and celebrate true love? The photo department—"next to stacks...
Linkage: Rain-Making Skyscrapers; A Great Lego Ad From 1981; More!
Photo via Dezeen · A strange tropical paradise awaits the buyer of this house. · Ikea succession: some assembly required. · Foster + Partners complete 58-story building in Calgary, Canada. · Luxury greenhouse lures Manhattanites to the country. · Beauty...
House of the Day: Subprime Mortgage Profiteer Lists Tuxedo Park Mansion
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: Tuxedo Park, N.Y. Price: $2,595,000...
Video Interlude: Do take two minutes and watch...
Do take two minutes and watch This is Shanghai, a positively mesmorizing timelapse video showcasing the stunning energy and freneticism of booming Shanghai. Visible: the skyline, the architecture, the traffic. Not visible: Hello Kitty house, fake German town.
That's Rather Hideous: Come Ogle Las Vegas' Most Absurd-Beyond-Words Palace
At this fine hour, on this most auspicious day, and without further ado, here Curbed presents the most over-the-top house in Las Vegas. And, as it's no secret that Vegas is the...
Mini Golf Wire: DC's National Building Museum has just...
DC's National Building Museum has just opened its annual "Mini Golf" exhibition, featuring "18 unique architectural marvels," as the museum's executive director describes the holes, all designed by firms like Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Architects: conquering the world one non-building...
Adaptive Reuse: 'Someone's Trash' Made This Impeccably Furnished Pad
Photo by Michelle and Chris Gerard via Curbed Detroit While there is no dearth of innovative or elaborate shipping container buildings out there, in Detroit, entrepreneur Shel Kimen has created what seems to be one of the most most impeccably...
Zaha!: Swoopstress Zaha Hadid, who designed one...
Swoopstress Zaha Hadid, who designed one of the London Olympics' most controversial structures, has been tapped to design the stadium for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Designed to hold 45,000 people during the tournament, the project is but...
The Printed Page: Inside Vince Camuto's Lovingly Restored Hamptons Palace
Photo by Scott Frances/Architectural Digest This month's Arch Digest steps inside Villa Maria, the Hamptons home of fashion frontman Vince Camuto and his wife and business partner, Louise. The home, a rambling restoration of an 1919 Victorian summer manse, was...
Politico Pads: David Axelrod, formerly a top political...
David Axelrod, formerly a top political advisor to Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, just listed his long-time Chicago pad, a 46th-floor condo in swanky Lake Point Tower, for $1.25M. He's not moving out of the city completely, though; the Axelrods...
Linkage: Porsche Moves On to Condos; Gorgeous Wind Tunnels; More!
Photo via Design Boom · Fire-sale mansion boasts "one of the sexiest pools ever made." · Does this modern Atlanta home tour prove we're cool? · 28 gorgeous wind tunnels that will blow you away. · Stealth pavilion mimics the...
CurbedWire: Jonathan Adler For Paperless Post; CB2 For Pride Month
Photo: NCinDC/Curbed DC Flickr pool THE INTERNET—Interior designer Jonathan Adler has launched a cute collection of e-cards with Paperless Post. Check out the full line, which runs less than a dollar a card, right this way. EVERYWHERE—To fête LGBT Pride...
On the Market: Here's an Atlanta-area mansion with a...
Here's an Atlanta-area mansion with a combo saltwater pool/home theater. Though the owner invested $9M into the 26,000-square-foot mansion, it's now "foreclosure priced" for, err, $2.79M. Then again, it's not like it's the most extravagant pool ever to have been...
Artistry: Exploring the City as an 'Aggressive' Mass of Broken Pixels
Image via Architizer Inspired by science fiction, video games, and comic books, Vienna-based graphic artist Peter Olschinsky creates crazy-compact, microchip-like versions of anonymous urban architecture, all "fantastic and aggressive, both fascinating and scary." The result is his "Pixel City" series,...
Video Interlude: A Look Back at Arizona's Utterly Beautiful Biodome Failure
Photo via The Avant/Garde Diaries In 1987, inspired (unsurprisingly) by the facilities of science fiction movies, a company called Space Biosphere Ventures, spearheaded by a group of scientists, began building an artificial, sealed ecosystem in the Arizona desert, a grand...
Celebrity Real Estate: Funnyman Jim Carrey has sold his...
Funnyman Jim Carrey has sold his Malibu beach house for $13.4M, The Real Estalker reports. The actor and comedian has been trying to offload the place for almost two years, originally trying to snag $18M for the five-bedroom contemporary in...
House of the Day: Two Venice Beach Homes Bank on a Decade of Appreciation
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: Los Angeles, Calif. Price: $10,500,000...
PriceUpper: After failing to sell at its...
After failing to sell at its all-time low ask of $9.975M, the SoCal waterfront estate known as Hilltop has been PriceUpped to $14.8M. The gutsy move is likely to reinvigorate interest in the 3.85-acre property, which was once a Marilyn...
Young Guns 2013: Alert: Curbed Young Guns Nominations Close Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Friday, June 7, 2013, at noon EST, the nominations for Curbed Young Guns, Curbed's roll call of the next guard, will close. The aim of Young Guns is to identify the most promising up-and-comers in the architecture and design...