Celine Dion’s Private Island Mansion Up For Sale [Video + Pictures]

Celebrity singer Celine Dion’s custom built Quebec mansion is gracing the real estate market. Priced at $29 Million, this majestic mansion stands on an 830,000 sq ft private island. From the listing: In the style of a French Normand Chateau, the 24,000 sq. ft. residence is completely sheathed in stone with dramatic slate roof. The . . .

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Modern Red Apartment For A Young Couple [Visualized]

This fresh young apartment styling by Sergey Baskakov proves that great and striking design can be implemented even on a small scale. Vibrant red accents add a huge amount of punch in these limited quarters, and are prevented from appearing too overpowering by being teamed with expanses of white and cream, to cool the heat . . .

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Beachside Penthouse in Israel

This relaxing apartment in Natanya, Israel, was designed by the architectural and interior design firm Domb Architects, for a special penthouse suite in the impressive Opera on Sea project. Located in the high-end residential tower on a sea-facing cliff, the luxurious dual level abode is gifted with a breathtaking view of blue skies meeting the . . .

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Serene House with Courtyard Pond

This serene house is a completed renovation project, by Studio Mumbai Architects, who stripped back an existing dwelling located in Bandra, Maharashtra, India. The house was taken down to the concrete bones of the structure, cloaked only by the surrounding trees. The team redesigned the home from the ground up to include an additional floor . . .

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Marvelous Mexican Penthouse

On the 15th floor of a 1970’s Mexican colonial style building, the PPDG Penthouse, designed by Hernandez Silva Arquitectos, positively pops with vibrant red gloss finishes against a fresh white backdrop. The old construction of columns and slabs, located in Guadalajara, Jalisco, provided the perfect basis for the elimination of walls to create one overall . . .

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Industrial Loft Apartment in Kiev

This sprawling loft interior located in the heart of Kiev, Ukraine, designed by Thank Balbek of design studio 2B Group, is rich in bold industrial character and bold style statements. The studio battled throughout the challenging design project to prove that “concrete could be warm, wood could be smooth and metal could be soft.” Via . . .

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Container-like Bach in Coromandel

This unusual holiday home belonging to the Crosson Family, and built by Crosson Clarke Carnachan Architects, resides in Coromandel, New Zealand; the bach was “conceived as a container sitting lightly on the land for habitation or the dream of habitation”, with the intention of the final outcome being to “reinterpret the New Zealand building tradition . . .

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Raw Look Loft in Düsseldorf

Entering this old loft via a cobbled courtyard, from the city of Düsseldorf, Germany, the rawness of the buildings original materials strikes you, with harsh bare brick face stacked in heavy columns. The owners of this 600 sq m minimalist-industrial space, have a strong passion for design and architecture, and so set a great challenge . . .

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Duplex Merge with Mesmeric Views

Belgian firm JUMA Architects have sent us these images of their duplex merge project, in collaboration with Minimum Arquitectura, with fresh interiors looking out over mesmeric ocean views. The renovation plan to convert the two existing houses entailed demolishing their external staircases and creating a brand new internal staircase, and taking advantage of the amalgamated . . .

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Modern Zoning in Ukrainian Apartment

This gorgeous visualization of a slick 300 sq meter apartment, to be realized in St. Voroshilova, Dnepropetrovsk, was created by Alexander Chervinskyi for Azovskiy & Pahomova Architects. The plan was to divide the home into two zones, one full of activity, and the other quiet and serene, to compartmentalize work & play from restful sleeping.

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Small Apartment Zinging with Color

This conceptual apartment, by Anna Marinenko, is positively bursting with bright decor decisions in the choice of paint, furniture, and accessories, but the vivacious palette finds success in this small space by limiting the hues, combining only two colors amidst clean white and fleeting bases of black and grey. The original clock concept was born . . .

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Swanky Sales Office of Condominiums by the Sea

Standing tall by the beach at Hua Hin, Thailand, is the condominium development Baan San Kramm, designed by Somdoon Architects, and built by company Sansiri. The beach town complex has an adjacent sales office that acts as a front-of-house gateway, which provides potential homebuyers access to two impressive show units, and creates the opportunity for . . .

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Inside the Mind of an Architect

Architect Barry Berkus talks in detail about the design process he used for a client. Spontaneous early design process, as featured in the video(after images), led to creation of the custom contemporary Padaro Residence, in Carpinteria, California; a fantastic composition of clean modern architecture that prominently features large expanses of glass to maximise wide stretching . . .

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Sensational Doesn’t Even Begin To Describe It

The WOW factor is abundant and absolutely bursting at this SAOTA designed Clifton House in South Africa. Located on a cliff in Nettleton Road, the most exclusive street in Cape Town, the property revels in an expansive seascape perspective to its facade, and a stylish garden with outdoor living area set into the mountain face . . .

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