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Beautiful Blues From Magenta For Spring

Filed under: Decor

Pale blue is the color of the season or maybe even the year. Even Pantone anointed turquoise as the it shade. As with personal fashion, in home decor, the accents are what can make your table look new and fresh. A few selected blue items from Magenta take the blue trend in a sweetly luxe direction combining the color of a cloudless sky with hints of gold. The studded stacking bowls shown above are $168 for the set. Click through after the jump for more beautiful summery inspirations.

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Aqua Chicago, Great For Birds And People

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Real Estate Developments

Chicago's 82-story Aqua Tower received an interesting award recently. Jeanne Gang, principle and founder of Studio Gang Architects earned a PETA Proggy award for using bird-deflecting elements in the residential building and hotel. The undulating exterior and etched glass help prevent birds from flying directly into windows. It's a pretty neat building for people too, those curves make for some distinctive balconies. The building contains 55,000 square feet of retail and office space as well as hotel rooms, condo units and apartments.

Right now there are about a dozen units available for sale in the building as well as nine luxury Parkhomes available for purchase starting November 1,2009. The Parkhomes are two and three bedroom homes located near the base of Aqua in Lakeshore East, facing the Lakeshore East park. They are 3000 square feet and start at $1.6 to $1.8 million. The most expensive unit in Aqua is the Aqua penthouse, a four-bedroom single-floor residence with views of the city and Lake Michigan. It is priced at $1,988,832. In the building two bedroom units start in the $700,000s and the three bedrooms start at $1 million. Units are also available for rent.

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Aqua on Allison Island

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Filed under: Estates

The Miami Herald had a story this weekend on Aqua on Allison Island, the new condo development in Miami Beach. The development of candy-colored homes sits on Allison Island in Indian Creek. The development includes townhouses and condo towers and is meant to reflect Modernism and a New Urbanist outlook. The development includes a gym but not golf course or tennis courts and the townhomes don't have their own yards. The island is surrounded by a walkway and there are two pools. Each street on the island ends in a water vista. The island has no retail and there is a gate at the entrance so it's not exactly an urban utopia but the developer sees the development as a mini-city where people can hang out, share ideas and enjoy a sense of community, fabulous community of course. Buying in at Aqua can cost $895,000 to $4.9 million. The developer has sold all 105 condos and just six townhouses are left.

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