2014年9月2日星期二

The World's Top 5 Villa

Actually, there are many fabulous villas in the world. Each one is really delicate no matter in mould or shape. Every building is born under the stylist elaborate design. However, some villas are famous for different stories and more meanings. There are some reasons why they become the world’s top villas. 

  • Updown Court

        It is a Californian style residence situated in the village of Windlesham in Surrey, England. The 103-room mansion has 58 acres of landscaped gardens and private woodland. It was, in 2005, the most expensive private home on the market anywhere in the world, having been listed for sale with estate agencies Savills and Hamptons International for in excess of £70 million.


  •            Maison La Miami

You cannot believe the selling price of La Miami villa is up to US$125 million. It located in Florida. In 2004, Donald Trump bought it at the bankruptcy price US$41.25 million. After remodeling, it supports banquet hall, concert hall and swimming pool etc. The main purpose of this villa is to break the record of the selling.

  •           Villa Mairea

Villa Mairea is a villa, guest-house, and rural retreat designed and built by the Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto for Harry and Maire Gullichsen in Noormarkku, Finland.
The Gullichsens were a wealthy couple and members of the Ahlström family. They told Aalto that he should regard it as 'an experimental house'. Aalto seems to have treated the house as an opportunity to bring together all the themes that had been preoccupying him in his work to that point but had not been able to include them in actual buildings.

  •            Toprak Mansion

Toprak Mansion located in London. It’s a neo-classic palace built buy a Turkish entrepreneur. And then it became the most luxurious house of Halis Toprak. Its luxury is not only showed on the decoration but also the equipments. Its main living space of approximately 2.8 million square feet total, including a spacious spiral staircase, four kitchens and 80 feet long luxury lounge. There are recreational activities included a comprehensive pool room, Turkish bath and sauna, two acres of green space. It is priced at about 50 million pounds.


  •               Vanna Venturi House

The Vanna Venturi House, one of the first prominent works of the postmodern architecture movement, is located in the neighborhood of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Robert Venturi for his mother Vanna Venturi, and constructed between 1962 -1964. The house was sold in 1973 and remains a private residence. The house is not open to the public.


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