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Advantages to Ground Floor Apartment Living

(photo by phodge100 on Flickr) While a bit dated, we still related to this New York Times article from 2004. It was written at the height of the real estate boom but much of the article still applie...

Didden Village: Blue Rooftop Escape in Rotterdam
The New York Times 7.6.08

The eye-popping blue addition is the work of architect Winy Maas of MVRDV. By adding house-shaped bedrooms to the roof of the existing apartment, Maas was able to make existing urban space "work har...

Linda Dodwell's Australian Compound in California
The New York Times 7.3.08

Artist and motorcyclist Linda Dodwell has a deep love for the architecture and iconography of rural Australia. When she built her five-building compound in Sonoma County, California, many of the mat...

Renovated French Farmhouse
The New York Times 7.2.08

The New York Times tells us how the Nettelbeck family transformed a run-down 16th-century farmhouse in the Aquitaine region of France. The small and dark rooms of the house, known as La Pradelle, we...

Common Spaces in our Apartments

AT reader True Blue's comment on this post got us wondering: how do AT readers feel about the decor of the common space of their apartments?......

Sunnyside Gardens Home
The New York Times 6.29.08

Developed in the 1920's as an alternative to overcrowded slums, Sunnyside Gardens in Queens is surrounded by lush vegetation. The New York Times shares the home of Dan Hendrick and Jimmy Van Bramer ...

Apartments in Amman, Jordan
The New York Times 6.25.08

This week's Great Homes & Destinations section of The New York Times shows off two apartments in Amman, Jordan. Jordan is a popular place for international organizations and corporations to make a h...

Rooftop Entertaining Space
Time Out New York 6.18.08

Reading through this week's collection of publications, we spotted an amazing roof top space in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Time Out New York shows us a glimpse of the communal roof of Shawn Connell's loft ...

Metal & Concrete Minimalist Home
The New York Times 6.19.08

Mircea Marinescu and his wife, Silvia, built a modern home of metal, concrete and glass in Fort Lee, New Jersey. The New York Times shares pictures of the stark, clean-lined design and tells the Mar...

Mid-Century Modern in London
The New York Times 6.18.08

The New York Times shows us the three-story 2,100-square-foot house that Jane Prophet and David Richardson renovated in London. The new space is clean-lined and simply furnished with a few unique to...

House Tour: Liz's South African Den
London, England

>> Enter House Tour Name: Elizabeth van den Bergh Location: Shepard’s Bush, London Type: Period Home Size: 310 square-meters (about 3400 square-feet) Years lived in: 4 When Elizabeth left her ...

New Building Codes
New York Magazine 6.15.08

The new New York Magazine has a roundup of some of the New York City building codes that will start to change on July 1st. The list includes new criteria for stairways, "green" construction rebates,...

Light-filled California Home
The New York Times Magazine 6.15.08

This angular home, perched on a hilltop in Southern California, was designed by architect Tom Kundig to take advantage of its unique position and embrace the indoor-outdoor life. Pilar Viladas of Th...

FSBO: 5 West 107th Street

(FSBO stands for For Sale By Owner. Owners are welcome to submit to: newyork (at) apartmenttherapy (dot) com and put "FSBO" in the subject line. We post on Mondays.) >> Enter FSBO Slideshow Location...

Residence Antilia: The World's Most Expensive Home
Email from 6.3.08

"Honey, I'm Home!" - Yes, the whole thing is home.... Owner: Nita and Mukesh Ambani Name: Antilia Location: Mumbai, India Size: 27 stories, 400,000 square feet (virtually 50 stories) Price: $2 billio...

The Tiny House Near Gramercy Park
The New York Times 6.12.08

Today, The New York Times launched a new "occasional series of articles offering inside looks at homes that stand out in the landscape of New York and other cities." The first home they featured is ...

Charles Goodman Barrel-Roof House
Washington DC

When we read that one of Charles Goodman’s Barrel-roof homes was having an open house on Sunday, heat or no heat, it was a must see. Whenever we drive by River Park we admire the uniqueness of this...

NEWS: Gracious Home is Coming to Chelsea

Move over, Bed Bath and Beyond. Gracious Home is coming downtown. The home furnishings super store is opening up a new 24,000sf shop at 6th Avenue and 26th Street. But don't head over there for a whil...

Black and White Bungalow of Colonial-Era Singapore
The New York Times 6.11.08

The European-style homes of expatriates and colonial families in colonial-era South East Asia were often black and white. The New York Times shows us one such home in Singapore, currently inhabited ...

Sell Modern Buying and Selling Modern Homes

If you want to get lost for a little while, shop around a bit on Sell Modern - it's a website devoted to selling modern homes. We found it the other day when we were writing this. They've got a lot ...

For Sale...Still: Louis Kahn's Margaret Esherick House

Friday's Architectural Landmarks as Investments post from Aaron reminded us of the news that the Louis Kahn-designed Margaret Esherick House is still up for sale following an auction last month... ...

Auto: Living Above the Store
The New York Times 6.8.08

Roman Luba and Renata Bokalo, the owners of Auto in the Meatpacking District, live above their shop on Washington Street. The New York Times shows us their one bedroom apartment and lets us witness ...

Comparing Big Apples to Oranges

It doesn't make a lot of sense, comparing housing prices here to those of lower-cost-of-living cities. We fully recognize the worth of living in this city and wouldn't easily trade it. However, we d...

Moving Alexander Hamilton's House
The New York Times 6.8.08

We've talked a lot about moving the past few weeks — but few of us will ever have the experience of physically moving an entire house. On Saturday, Alexander Hamilton’s country home, the Grange ...

Architectural Landmarks as Investments
Slate 6.4.08

In light of recent events — the deal-gone-bad on Neutra's Kaufmann House and the story in The New York Times about the woman in New Canaan who wanted to make her Philip Johnson designed home into a ...

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