After getting addicted to the blogsphere with Marketing Wizard, I have decided that it was time to declare my love for architecture by engaging into a new venture... the Architect Wizard blog! Hope to keep this website live and kicking and entertain you with new and fascinating developments that occur around the world... Stay linked!
We love when New York gets greener and especially it's rooftops... Above is real estate developer Matthew Blesso's 3,000 SF penthouse in Lower Manhattan, a New York heaven, that cost over $1 Million in renovation. The house now includes a herb garden, full of peppermint and spearmints, and wooden floors.
...is what architect Len Marmol and partner Ron Radzinger created by renovating and expanding interior designer Carole Katleman's 1963 Beverly Hills residence. "The modern character of the house had potential, but we simplified the plan and improved the disjointed circulation patterns", says Marmol. The designers cleared out the doors, in order to connect all units to create a more spacious living area. A Frank Gehry corrugated-cardboard chair is next to Valerie Jaudon's Mound Bayou, 1978. (May 2002 of Architectural Digest)
Sited within 28 acres of private beachfront on Riviera Maya, Nizuc entails the best of the best in its location, development, team and product. Nizuc, designed by Becker Arquitectos, includes a 45-room hotel and 160-room condos, including 16 penthouses, operated by the incredible Aman Resorts. The project includes 8 buildings that are facing a lagoon. Designer, Jean-Michel Gathy, has put touches of Mayan and Asian style to complement the units that are sold furnished and will feature patios or terraces with private plunge pools. There will be an Espa and two restaurants, one with Peruvian cuisine and the other a Mexican bistro. The resort will have eight pools, and additional amenities will include boardwalks through the mangroves, a cigar lounge, a shaded jetty with daybeds and cabanas on the private beach. Prices start at $1.3 million and completion is scheduled in October 2009. The design is so earthy and minimal that it brings the whole concept of "less is more" to another level... Let's hope this project does not stall like so many others in today's market crisis!
... and make us jealous of this New York penthouse designed by Andrew Berman. The rooftop is transformed into a magnificent garden... all surrounded by incredible views of Midtown Manhattan.
Black Sunday they called it... the day that two of the biggest American investment banks vanished from the market... following a crash on Wall Street similar to the point drop after 9/11. Everyone is holding their breath... anticipating the events to follow... but undeniably one thing is for sure, construction will get the first hit. Developers will have to shift gears... Does this mean that Manhattan will soon produce a new development product altogether? Are many of the new anticipated extraordinary projects come to a halt? We'll watch and learn...
Girl who loves to write, ex-ad creative and film school retiree, current marketeer in real estate developement, who just blogs for the bloggers and just loves the adworld...
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