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Tour Park House, Melbourne, by Mim Design, Pleysier Perkins
Park Dwelling, once a Presbyterian manse, was developed in 1856 in the Williamstown region of Melbourne. 1 of city’s oldest surviving properties, it is suitably established and rugged, modest and squat. Neighborhood architecture company Pleysier Perkins was billed by the house’s new entrepreneurs with its sensitive restoration and discovering area for a discreet but significant and indulgence-friendly extension. The architects drew up ideas for a mild-crammed, a few-story (a person underground) concrete box, housing additional bedrooms, living spaces, a wine cellar, a curing room, a health club, and a kitchen area in shape and huge plenty of for fewer parsimonious preparations, all largely concealed powering the two-storey blue stone initial…
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A Toy Designer Turns a Glover Park Home Into a Kid-Friendly, Colorful Escape
“Look Inside My Home” is our series where we peek into the homes of Washingtonians. Want your house featured? Email [email protected]. Chloe Varelidi is the CEO and founder of Follies, a design-oriented line of children’s toys, as well as the founder of Humans Who Play, a design studio that focuses on play, education, and technology. She lives with her husband, Francesco, and her two children, Nefeli and Leonidas, in a three-bedroom, three-bath, contemporary-style Glover Park home. The couple purchased the home about a year ago, and have been updating the place with a relaxed, Scandinavian-inspired feel. Since Varelidi has been a play designer for over a decade—and was an architect…
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City of Hoboken unveils expanded Southwest Resiliency Park design
Mayor Ravi S. Bhalla and the City of Hoboken today unveiled the final concept design for the expanded Southwest Resiliency Park that will serve the dual purpose of providing recreation space and flood mitigation. The expansion doubles the size of the existing one-acre Southwest Resiliency Park at 58 Jackson Street, and will include six pickleball courts, a centrally located shaded plaza with tables and seating, a playground for children, a full basketball court, restroom facilities, and rain garden plantings. Four concept designs were presented to the public earlier this year, with the final amenities reflecting feedback through community engagement sessions and an online public survey. “I’m proud that the final design…
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RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2022 Garden Winners
A wildlife-friendly front garden, a post-pandemic working from home back garden, and a garden dedicated to those suffering from long Covid were among the winners at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park 2022. 10 medals were awarded in the Gardens category at RHS Tatton, with designs providing visitors with plenty of practical, take-home ideas. There were three non-judged Feature Gardens at Tatton this year: the RHS and BBC North West Community Urban Garden designed Bea Tann; BBC Radio 2 and The One Show’s Sow Grow and Show Garden designed Joe Swift; and The Vitamin G Garden designed by Alan Williams with Jo Whiley, the latter of which was also on…
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How the sale of a piece of Flatiron Park could impact its future and Boulder’s real estate market
Four months ago, the already-hot Boulder commercial real estate market saw what could be one of its most consequential deals yet, when BioMed Realty LLC purchased a 1-million-square-foot portfolio in the Flatiron Park business campus — located east of 55th Street between Arapahoe Avenue and Pearl Parkway — for $625 million. That was the richest commercial real estate sale in Colorado history, $232 million more than the previous record. But the sale carries significance far greater than the sticker shock of the price, said Becky Callan Gamble, president of commercial brokerage Dean Callan & Co. BioMed is one of the largest life-sciences real estate firms in the country — it…
