A 1924 Spanish Mediterranean-style home in Los Angeles—completely refurbished by architect Linda Brettler and her former husband, “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner—hit the market Thursday for $15.495 million. Known as the Blair Estate, the more than 11,000-square-foot mansion was designed by architect George H. Fruehling for John H. Blair, one of the most prominent developers in early Los Angeles...
The striking architecturally significant tower was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Parisian architect Jean Nouvel, whose work includes everything from luxury residential condos and homes to hotels, concert halls and museums. The tower is immediately recognizable thanks to its tapering structure that is framed within a concrete diagrid. This shifts the concrete sculptural system to the exterior, creating...
Manhattan, for all its charms, can sometimes fail the imagination. From the “financial district” to “Midtown” to the “Upper West Side,” the names of neighborhoods can seem just-the-facts dull, seeming to prefer literal and safe over style and mystery. It wasn’t always this way. Checkering the borough once were names far more novel, like Mackarelville (on the Lower East Side),...
Russell Westbrook, point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers, dropped $37 million on a lavish new home in the city’s Brentwood neighborhood, directly across the street from his teammate LeBron James. He quietly bought the property in an off-market deal from Formula 1 racing heiress Petra Ecclestone. When Ms. Ecclestone bought the home in 2019 for $22.7 million, Mansion Global wrote that the eight-bedroom,...
New York City’s residential market rolled into 2022 off the momentum of a historically hot 2021 before buyers and sellers hit the brakes in the face of interest rate hikes, economic uncertainty and inflation concerns. Prices and deal volume largely fell, but one corner of the market managed to welcome in top-dollar deals. From a near-record at 220 Central Park South to three $50 million sales in as many...
A Los Angeles Lakers jersey regularly worn and signed by Kobe Bryant will be auctioned next month with a high estimate of US$7 million, making it the most valuable Bryant jersey to appear on the open market. The late basketball star wore the gold jersey on Lakers media day on Oct. 1, 2007, and throughout the NBA Western Conference finals on May 9, 2008. During the 2007-08 season, he scored 645 points in...
Humans have been constructing buildings for thousands of years - from simple huts to grand temples. Buildings are reflective of the world around us, and act as a visual representation of how it is continually changing. As we have evolved, so has the way we approach constructing structures. We are building safer, quicker, taller and larger than ever before, utilising modern methods of construction...
Sale prices at the top of the Hamptons market dropped this year, but that doesn’t mean there were bargains to be had. The 10 most expensive homes sold for a combined $550 million, a 9 percent decrease from last year’s $607 million. The big difference in 2022: No home topped the $100 million mark, as 90 Jule Pond Drive did last year. Here were the top 10 home sales in the Hamptons this year through Dec....
Martin Luther King Jr., the Atlanta native who became one of the most important figures in the civil rights movement, was born on January 15, 1929. While it would be impossible to encompass everything King accomplished in a mere list, we’ve compiled a few intriguing facts that might pique your interest in finding out more about the man who helped unite a divided nation. 1. Martin Luther King was not...
It all started when they found out their house was illegal. In the early 2010s, Chris and Roberta Hanley were enjoying their off-the-grid vacation home in Joshua Tree, Calif., when they were informed that their 720-square-foot prefab house violated local regulations. At the time, Joshua Tree required that homes be at least 20 feet wide, and their modular house wasn’t. If they wanted to keep living on...