A 'U' Shaped 3-Storey Luxury Property in London, by Belsize Architects

An architect firm based in London, Belsize Architects completed the luxurious property situated along Sheldon Avenue, specifically within the Heath Fringes Conservation Area in Highgate, London.

The concept is a 3-storey 'cascading' atrium with a “U” shape, centered around a glazed. This allows ample daylight in the heart of the house. Belsize Architects designed a series of cells arranged around a chapter house: the cells provide accommodation for retreat, contemplation, rest and sleep within small but comfortable spaces. The large atrium space is the ‘chapter house’: its circulation areas are places of encounter, and its lower levels are for gathering, eating and socializing.

A&B Homes' Golden Hill house comes with Nuclear Shelter and Underground Aquarium for £7.5 Million

Luxury home developer in southern England, A&B Homes presents its latest most expensive house for £7.5 million, located at Golden Hill Belbins Romsey SO51 0PE. It is a palatial wonderland, complete with a 34-seat cinema, 15-berth nuclear shelter and underground aquarium.

Golden Hill house accumulated construction and design expertise gained in over 25 years of building substantial individual houses of stature and character. The house, set in 11 acres, also caters for the ultra safety-conscious. The two-storey summer house overlooking the lake with the lower floor having spectacular aquarium glazing.

What you get for £7.5M:

• A 52f swimming pool orangery with spa, sauna and steam room
• Poolside gym area
• Billboard/pool hall with bespoke bar
• 34-seat cinema and coference room
• Tennis court
• Double height ballroom
• Staff quarters
• Ten bedrooms, 17 bathrooms and seven kitchens
• 50ft long master bedroom
• "Intelligent" lightning control
• Eco-friendly power, including ground source heating, solar panels and a 15kw wind turbine
  
• Underground garage for ten cars
• 100m long lake with water features and waterfall on to water wheel and lower pond
• Private grounds of 11 acres
• Summer house complete with underground aquarium view of lake

Via: DailyEcho

Electronic House 2009 Home of the Year

This Hollywood blend of drama, design and innovation--including 7.1 CinemaScope theater, pop-up televisions, and multiple surround-sound areas--proclaimed by Electronic House's for Best Home of the Year 2009.

The 7,000 square foot spread located in the Hollywood Hills with amenities that tech geeks are quite familiar with. “CinemaScope theater, 7.1-channel surround-sound, intricate TV concealment, extensive automation—but we don’t often see them shine together in such a spectacular location, with equally stunning results. This home can’t settle for anything less than red-carpet treatment.” Though billed as “the ultimate bachelor pad” the house actually belongs to a young couple.

Game Room featuring PC gaming on a ceiling-mounted flat panel as well as a triple-screen auto racing simulation machine.

The kitchen can serve up video from a flat-panel TV or audio from the housewide network, which is piped in through Sonance in-ceiling trimless architectural speakers.

Master Suite with Two TVs... Because another motorized lift reveals a 42-inch LG TV hidden within the bed’s footboard. A Crestron touch panel in the room can control any electronic function in the house.

Master Suite Control. A Crestron TPMC-8X Wi-Fi touchpanel provides wireless access and controls over the home’s A/V, automation, lighting, climate and security systems. There are five of them, including this one in the master suite.

Theater. A CinemaScope super-wide screen, rockin’ JBL Synthesis surround-sound system and furnishings with a bit more sex appeal than your typical theater chairs and carpeting. The screen measures 125 diagonal inches at its full 2.35:1 aspect ratio viewing, which receives images from a Runco VX-2000D CineWide projector. The front channels and subwoofers in the JBL system are recessed in the cabinetry.

Via: Electronichouse

The World's Most Expensive Kennel Complete With Spa and Plasma TV

They must have taken out a mortgage at Barklays.

How else could a pair of Great Danes get their paws on this £250,000 kennel?

The bespoke doghouse is being built on an exclusive estate near Cirencester in Gloucestershire.

Inside, the dogs will sleep on sheepskin-lined, temperature-controlled beds, soothe their aches in an 18in-deep spa, howl along to a £150,000 sound system and watch dog-friendly programmes on a 52-inch plasma TV.

Automatic dispensers will ensure that chilled, filtered water and deluxe dry food are always available.

The two dogs will each have a bedroom with large windows which overlook their own private playground. 'Dog-vision' webcams allow their owner to monitor their activity 24 hours a day, while climate control ensures they are kept warm.

There will be a sophisticated retina scanner installed at the front door to stop any other dogs getting in - something the Great Danes may view as a bit of a party pooper.

Plans for the kennel, and for an adjoining house for the dogs' mistress, have been approved and building work is to begin at the Lower Mill Estate in the spring.

The owner of the estate said the house and kennel were designed to the specifications of a female surgeon who wishes to remain anonymous.

(Click the image to enlarge) The yap of luxury: The house will include sheepskin-lined, temperature-controlled daybeds, elevated to allow the dogs to guard their empire

Jeremy Paxton said: 'Most houses are built with human specifics in mind and animals fit in around that - but this is the other way round.

'It's a very interesting house with fabulous architecture and unusual requirements.

'There's even a spa bath with a saline treatment built in because it's good for their coats.'

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