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New iPad Luxury Tower for Dubai Announced

Filed under: Estates

If you ever find yourself wondering where on earth the next luxury residential tower is going to be built, just take a moment or two to check out the architectural scene in Dubai because the odds are good that they're planning something there. Omniyat Properties has just announced a new project inspired by the Apple iPod. The "iPad residential tower" will be built in Business Bay and will feature 200+ units in a building that is actually shaped like an iPod attache to a docking station. The designer firm handling the project is James Law Cybertecture International, based in Hong Kong. Engadget said that no sketches have yet been released, but the building should be done by 2009.

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Tags: architecture, dubai, ipad, residence, residential, twer

The Magellan Gets Even Larger

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Filed under: Yachts & Sailing

The Magellan, which plans to be the world's largest private residential cruise ship has just gotten a bit bigger. They have announced twelve additional residences and a new amenity, a tennis court. The Magellan is now 860 feet and weighs an astounding 72,000 tons. The new residences include four one-bedroom condos and eight two-bedroom condos. The Magellan includes an indoor pool, greenhouse (shown here), resaurants, a spa, an observatory and a 450-seat live, satellite broadcast theatre. Private residences on The Magellan range in price from $1.875 million to $8 million for penthouses and from $134,000 for fractional ownership condos. The Magellan is set to be completed in 2009 and the ship is designed to run for 100 years. With the residential cruise ship market just beginning, the Magellan is clearly seeking to be the most extravagant option for those looking for life on the seas.

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Tags: cruise ship, fractional ownership, magellan, residential, travel, yacht

Westbury Development

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Estates

A new community is being developed for "active adults" in a Chicago suburb. Westbury will be located in Yorkville, Illinois and will be a hub of five residential villages and a village center. There will be approximately 4,000 homes including luxury, conventional and courtyard townhomes and single-family ranch and villa homes. The developer Ocean Atlantic will not build on any of the residential lots, the lots are being sold to homebuilders in pods, groups of lots designated for a certain product and price point. The development, which is already under construction, will also have The Shops at Westbury which will offer a variety of restaurants and shopping options and the Westbury Country Club which will have an 18-hole golf course, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, fitness center and spa. Between the use of the word 'pod" and the slightly creepy "active adults" this sounds a bit like Stepford comes to Chicago.

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Tags: chicago, developments, real estate, RealEstate, residential, westbury