Zaya, an Abu Dhabi-based real estate corporation has commenced its first of many property luxurious ventures. Known as Nurai, it is an impressive private community of limited edition resort beach-front estates and water villas standing on the ordinary island off the coast of Abu Dhabi. Having roots attached to Arabic word “nour” denoting light, Nurai is enclosed by pure waters and ringed with unspoiled sandy seashores. Positioned at the northeast of Abu Dhabi, the island is set in seclusion away from the crowd of the city life yet is only minutes away from the mainland.

Spread over 130,000 sq.mtr, the island is expected to be shaped like a fascinating and deluxe resort and elite private residential estate, consisting of one boutique luxury lodge resort equipped with 60 suites, 31 beachfront manor and 36 water villas.

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Maraya, a 54 meters long vessel is no less than a myriad of lights and credit for this goes to CRN who developed this is association with Studio Zuccon International Project, dedicated to design the face of the yacht. Maraya falling in Arabic dictionary means “mirror,” is a project entirely custom-built to meet the needs of the owner expecting lights to rule the ambience.

Renowned interior designer Claude Missir Agency worked upon offering state-of-art interiors that are highlighted by lights and mirrors all gleaming in bright shades. It takes pride in being the first mega yacht of the yard that utilizes the lighting system based utterly on the use of fiber optics and LEDs.

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Right on its heels of inviting Tourists’ attraction, Dubai is all charged up to erect headstones and other monumental edifices in all possible shapes. Having heard about developer Nakheel neck-deep busy into designing Dubai Promenade, today there is a news about development of another next generation architectural design called ‘Strata Luxury Tower.’Designed by architects Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture of Asymptote, work is already in process on the Al Raha Beach to contruct this forty story residential building by early 2011.

Standing 160 meters high, the tower would be the tallest building in the Al Dana precinct, positioned in the heart of Aldar Properties PJSC’s prestigious Al Raha Beach development. The showcasing of the project is exhibited at Cityscape Abu Dhabi till 15 May 2008. It stands high indicating the decorous future for the Abu Dhabi and the neighboring province.
Its corporeal existence is arresting as it encapsulates the meaning through conceptual form, which is drawn from both motifs and narrow cultural scenery along with forces of universal authority. Its blueprint employs the arithmetical means to attain a highly relevant construction for UAE.

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Want to enjoy spa, massages, saunas, facials, loofah rubs, swimming at a single place? Here you go! Inspa World is a five-story 60,000-square-foot funhouse located in the College Point neighborhood of Queens, N.Y that labels itself as a “spa and water park.” But this description falls too short to define it if you consider Rory real experience or mine virtual. Overlooking Long Island Sound near the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, it costs only $30 to get in.

While check-in, each visitor is asked for a credit card in return of which a wristwatch-sized electronic bracelet is given (blue for men, pink for ladies). The watertight bracelet mechanically opens individual lockers for one’s shoes and clothes. Visitors then clad themselves in a spa uniform to go upstairs to the co-ed sauna and restaurant floors. The place offers separate changing rooms for the upstairs co-ed pools.

It features two large outdoor pools flooded with water jets and bubble jets aiming at massaging your every body part. You would be glad to know that besides sun bath, it offers you a pool with integrated hot tub. It also offers facility of typical steam rooms and saunas downstairs for men and women.

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For past couple of months, the localities of Tilburg in the Netherlands got bore hearing about the artistic creation of rotating house by renowned architect John Körmeling. Seemingly weird, the making of the project took nearly a decade and its pro-active nature involves a 360 degree churn by standing on the smack dab in the Hasselt roughly. The dot has been chosen to feature artistc creation and the parody is it is being witnessed as the essential gateways to the city. Driven by solar panels, the full-scale model house (5 meters wide, 8.5 meters deep and 10 meters high) starts its rotation in the direction of the traffic and completes a single revolving every 20 hours, which is been seen as a disturbing factor for visitors commuting all the way from remotest corner of the world. The house is unoccupied, but if a drunken bum happens to enter it then he would be in for one hell of a menace.

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Can you think of constructing a house amidst walls of two buildings? May be no, just because of the simple fear factor attached that it would be too doomy. But ask those creative architects who have lately completed one-such project. Featured above is a revolutionary four-story Alley House, smartly erected between the walls of two buildings in Antwerp, Belgium. You would be surprised to know that the distance measured between the two structures was only 2.4 meters (7’10″) wide; and architects took it as a unique experience to bend their design expertise. It is segregated like this: The ground floor of the house features an office space, first floor is the dining floor, and lounging and living is fulfilled by second floor with a unique bedroom on the third followed by a roof that is an ideal place to enjoy the scenic beauty of the city.
The face of the house facing the street is layered with glass only, but if you wish to get one designed for you and aren’t in a mood to publicize your privacy then you can consider really hip curtains instead of glass.

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Wow! World’s fifth richest man, Mukesh Ambani is again in news for building world’s most expensive residence. Whilst in January ABC news revealed that the house would be worth $1 billion but now figures seem to have turned two-fold. This Mumbai-based petrochemical mogul of Reliance Industries is fortunate to have a floating wealth of $46 billion.

He is hoping that the completion of four-year construction of “Antilla” by coming January would tag world’s most expensive adobe to his name, thereby beating the lifestyle of billionaires like Warren Buffet who reside in reserved lodging. If you don’t know then this 22-story Mumbai Tower is positioned 550 feet into the sky with a bizarre 400,000 sq ft of internal space costing a total of $2 billion.

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In a graphic-infatuated, visual appeal driven era; invisibility may work as the absolute retreat, according to engineer Patrick Keane, founder of EnterArchitecture. It was when a client rushed to his door with a demand to construct a home that erects invisibly, Keane geared up and picked the challenge. Keane clarifies that in to design a house meant to “disappear,” every wall is averted in shape which lends itself to “Dynamic Architecture.”

The use of this technique adds a strong appeal to this house that it is hardly seen completely or comprehended from any distinct vantage point. “The Invisible House” is anticipated to be erected in Sydney, but Keane concurs that it is evocative of a structural design in Southern California.

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I have a fad for diving in a perpetuity edge pools but since now everyone has access to them, I kind of have lost interest in them. Lately, I came across a Killer-Pool (cum house) constructed by Corona y P. Amaral Arquitectos. The designer architecture of this pool is exceptional as you don’t feel like you’re suspended on the crag but rather floating in the sky. Regrettably, there is hardly any information available about this elite house designed by Arsenio Pérez Amaral except that it is positioned in the Canary Islands, Spain.

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Saying deep down estates demands high-end price is justifiable. There is no restriction on adaptation of current basement as space-hungry homeowners are making it their business deal.

Talk about Ricky Gervais’s golf simulator, which is currently under construction under his Hampstead home or feel free to glare the Foxtons’ founder Jon Hunt’s underground car museum, designed for his Kensington Palace Gardens villa. Such money-thrift basement projects are now been seen as Londoner’s extension of choice. To deliver estates of their desirable standards, sharp developers are doing R&D over how to produice light and airy living spaces from deep below the earth.

A gated mews house features two subterranean storeys along with with the highest basement ceilings in Belgravia (3·2 and 3·4m). The creation is the brainchild of Alan Waxman of developer Landmass, 21 Grosvenor Crescent Mews’s submarine lodging flaunts a garden with sliding roof, a nine-metre waterfall along with the “usual” sauna, steam room and gym. It would be available for sale in January for £8mn.

Go a mile away from it and you will come across another underground creation of a double basement by Alex Michelin of Finchatton, who is busy renovating a listed house positioned in Eaton Square.

Natural light is inserted by fibre optic cables, and the glass-flooring of the first basement level allows throwing blue reflections from the swimming pool below to filter upwards. The effect is enchanting.

Well now you must be thinking how and what all prerequisites can make it this virtual structure of yours take a hard reality? Techniques! Anmd its growing space.

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