Issue: January 19, 2009 (Archive)

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Green kingdom
You've heard of developers erecting green homes and you've heard of others updating heritage apartments but how often do you hear of a developer reversioning a 1968 flat to be a green one?

Manhattan home prices finally tumble
It took war, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and the collapse of some of New York's famed investment banks, but Manhattan apartment prices are finally falling.

Obamas bring proud new chapter to storied history of luxury hotel
The Obamas of Hyde Park, the future first family of America, have become vagabonds. Fresh from their Hawaii vacation, they moved into the first of two spots of temporary housing.

Evicted
The suburban houses on Buckingham Green Lane, Maryland, are - as the name suggests - majestic. Two-story foyers, saplings growing in manicured yards, everything you would want if you had everything. Drapes obscure the interiors, but you know the insides are packed with all the marvelous things you ever dreamed of.

Chinese tourists seek ultimate US souvenir
Caravans of cash-rich Chinese have been weaving through US neighborhoods, looking for foreclosures and other bargain properties to buy.

Diary of a meltdown
Prices collapsed worldwide this year as hyper-inflated housing bubbles finally burst, brutally punctured by the global credit crunch - and the slump may continue for two more years, experts say.

Shades of Bilbao
If you call a building "Gehryesque," even people who don't follow architecture closely will know what you mean. It is a building by Frank Gehry, the world's most famous living architect, and it probably looks like the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, a curved and sinuous space wrapped in his trademark shimmering titanium. Few architects are so easily reducible to a visual idea, and so completely defined by their name and style.

House in waiting
For the holidays, the dining table at the vice president's official residence on the grounds of the US Naval Observatory in Washington will be set with white vice- presidential china, tulip-shaped Lenox crystal stemware and a sippy cup or two.

High hopes
Property investors are pencilling in the second half of next year in their diaries as the likely time to start pouring money into China again as they search for bargains in its ailing property market.

Minimalist style
For Trey Russell, "less is more" is not just a modernist creed but a way of life. In his Los Angeles boutique, Aris, and his second-story garden apartment behind the shop, there is a pared-down yet luxurious aesthetic on display.

Skating on home
At 22, Pierre Andre Senizergues moved from the suburbs of Paris to skateboarding's Valhalla: Venice Beach, California. "I was living in a Ford Econoline van for the first six months," he says, adding that his next home was a surf shack where he paid US$50 (HK$390) a month to crash behind a sofa.

One mall to rule them all
The vast Dubai Mall finally opened for business on Tuesday but the success of the US$20 billion (HK$156 billion) project is far from certain amid the financial tsunami.

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