As always like investor said, only search for the best property to earn the passive income. Whether location is also make the important key for real estate factor, building size and design was proven to be important, not just the location ahead. News from forbes.com said that these are some of the world's most expensive properties, and the prices are as unique as the homes. Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan's Aspen ski lodge lists for $135 million, while 6,000 miles away, a 64-room Istanbul waterfront mansion asks $100 million. Along Australia's Gold Coast and across the French Riviera, they sit above the beach offering extraordinary views of the sea. In the U.K. they are palaces that humble the Queen's Belgravia mansions.
There are also several concepts to be the highest city property price will be next. Though it hasn't yet been built, Tim Blixseth is asking $155 million for his planned Montana lodge. He says that several members of the Forbes 400 have already expressed interest in what will be a 53,000-square-foot stone-and-wood mansion in the billionaire's members-only Yellowstone Club. But until Blixseth finishes construction in 2008, this year's top property can be found in Beverly Hills, Calif. For $165 million, a buyer gets a 75,000-square-foot villa once owned by William Randolph Hearst. Refer to : property price drop and London 2007 best house, also architecture world.

If you think these offers smack of desperation, well, you're right. With home prices nationwide expected to tumble nearly 6 percent this year and inventories of unsold houses at near record levels, sellers have good reason to feel a little frantic. The incentive that should be at the top of your list isn't a landscaping allowance or plane tickets or a flat-screen TV.
What you should press for first is that timeless, ever-popular classic: a lower purchase price. In New Jersey, a builder is trying to entice prospects to purchase condominiums and attached homes with a free two-year lease on a Mercedes-Benz. In Seattle, a homeowner is offering round-trip airplane tickets to anywhere in the world, plus a six-night stay at a Four Seasons hotel to anyone who will just, please, buy the house he has on the market.
Generally, the more money you put down in cash, the more incentives you can get. No matter how crafty a bargainer you are, there's a limit to the value of the incentives you can get without creating more complications for yourself. Don't let incentives draw you into a lousy deal. The freebies won't amount to the proverbial hill of beans if you're not happy with the house and the financing. So if either is not exactly what you want, keep shopping. News from yahoo.

The lesson is: "if you're willing to be a little adventurous, the best houses do not all come at a premium". From the timesonline.co.uk, there was a news about Hall in Buckinghamshire, the one country house securely attributable to England's greatest architect, Sir Christopher Wren, a masterpiece in design and architectural phase, for which Jackson-Stops & Staff is asking £3million.
Not only is Tony Blair not thinking of moving into it after all, but the agent has not received a single offer. A breathtaking masterpiece. True, the ground floor of a wing at Winslow is leased to the local Roman Catholic congregation, and Chicheley looks a little close to Milton Keynes on the map, but both are within a 90-minute drive of London and still faster by train. It's not as if Buckinghamshire is without a new generation of tycoons.
The star this year at 2007 best house property was Rodborough Fort building, a Victorian castle-style folly set in a breathtaking position on the edge of a 300-acre common run by the National Trust. From the windows we can look across the Severn estuary to the Black Mountains. Both the interior and the garden needed a lot of work but it sold close to the guide price of £1.85million. None of them comes from the modern minimalism architecture design style. news from timesonline.co.uk

Shanghai, which literally means the "City on the Sea," lies in the Yangtze River Delta at the point where China's main waterway completes its 5,500-kilometre (3,400-mile) journey to the Pacific. It is called in Chinese "Hu" for short and "Shen" as a nickname.
World Expositions are galleries of human inspirations and thoughts. Since 1851 when the Great Exhibition of Industries of All Nations was held in London, the World Expositions have attained increasing prominence as grand events for economic, scientific, technological and cultural exchanges, serving as an important platform for displaying historical experience, exchanging innovative ideas, demonstrating esprit de corps and looking to the future.
With a long civilisation, China favours international exchange and loves world peace. China owes its successful bid for the World Exposition in 2010 to the international community's support for and confidence in its reform and opening-up. The Exposition will be the first registered World Exposition in a developing country, which gives expression to the expectations the world's people place on China's future development. news from http://en.expo2010china.com/

Brian Johnsen, AIA, and Sebastian Schmaling, AIA, spent a year taking trips to the wooded, lakeside site two hours from their Milwaukee office. They absorbed the property's every nuance, from the bark patterns on the trees to the colors of the leaves at different times of the year. The two-story home's layout is simple: two bars, laid perpendicularly to one another. Johnsen and Schmaling tucked the lower, bedroom level into a steep hillside and placed the public rooms upstairs.
The project's linear forms highlight the judges' favorite feature—an exterior envelope of cedar and glass interspersed with Prodema, a wood-veneer product containing a resin-bonded cellulose core. The Prodema panels, sit about 4 inches forward for a layering effect. Within its striking enclosure, the house continues to immerse its dwellers in the immediate natural environment. Windows extend from the concrete floors all the way up to the clear-sealed MDF ceilings to maximize lake and forest views. Folding glass doors transform a screened porch into an extension of the main living space. On the lower level, varied-width strips of cedar embedded in an exposed-concrete retaining wall recall the woods outside. Traditional items interpreted in a modern manner, such as exposed beams of engineered wood and a steel-clad central fireplace, update the lake cottage vernacular.

principals in charge / project architects / landscape designers / interior designers: Brian Johnsen, AIA, and Sebastian Schmaling, AIA, Johnsen Schmaling Architects; general contractor: Jesse Burg, Gale Burg Construction, Malone, Wis.; project size: 2,700 square feet; site size: 2.5 acres; construction cost: $260 per square footsource: residentialarchitect.com

BuildingGreen Inc., publisher of the GreenSpec Directory, has named its Top 10 Green Building Products for 2007. The list, announced at the Greenbuild Conference and Expo on Nov. 8, recognizes the most exciting products added to the directory over the past year and covered in Environmental Building News.
Featured on the list are products that save energy and water, are made from recycled or recovered materials, avoid hazardous processes or disposal of materials during manufacture, and aid in the siting of solar energy systems. "Most of the top 10 products this year have multiple environmental attributes.
Collins Pine FreeForm™ is a new FSC-certified particleboard that is produced with no added urea-formaldehyde. A melamine-formaldehyde binder is used rather than industry-standard urea-formaldehyde.(colllinswood.com)

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The State of Illinois Emergency Operations Center received AIA Chicago's 2007 Divine Detail Honor Award. The exterior copper rain screen on the new State Emergency Operations Center is a feature of the layered design approach which facilitated the design and construction of this high-security 50,000 sf facility on an aggressive 19-month schedule.
This building uses smart combination between materials and design elements, such as the copper rain screen, the design of the SEOC reinvents the tectonic character and expression of emergency facilities in distinctly contemporary terms. Conceived to cast a formal elegance and lightness that belies the building’s high security standards, the State Emergency Operations Center demonstrates that it is possible, economically feasible, and even desirable not just bunker-like design, the great design was set for high-security facilities. Source: architectmagazine.com

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