Word: condos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...high-rise projects wear their engineering on their sleeves. Turning Torso, an apartment and office tower under construction in Malmö, Sweden, spirals suavely around its central core like a plug of twisted toffee, producing a form that looks stable and unified but also pliant, voluptuous. And for a condo tower about to go up in lower Manhattan, Calatrava breaks its mass into curving segments, residential packages that cantilever outward and carousel around and down the central core. When the building is completed, it could be an inspiration to American architects. "Not only did America invent the skyscraper," says Calatrava...
...real urban center, where people not only party but meet, live and perhaps form the kind of community Vegas has never had - one in which people no longer change cell-phone numbers every six months to escape from debts and exes. Developers are racing to put up 20-story condo towers near the Strip. Retirees and people with second homes like the condos because they are easy to maintain, but a surprising number of locals buy so they can be near what Mayor Goodman calls, without irony, the intellectual center of Vegas. That center is being defined, in true American...
...Complex: Malibu." We didn't know Malibu was complex, but several couples are moving into a condo building there, renovating their apartments and trying to sell them at a profit, in a reality show that combines "Temptation Island," "Trading Spaces" and that one so-so real-estate episode of "The Apprentice...
Okin had recently purchased a condo in Lincoln and hoped to be able to spend part of every year in the Boston area. She had also bought a house in the south of France...
...altar. When Terri, an executive at a nonprofit organization, wedded at age 30, she already had a thriving career and her own condominium. "I brought assets, and my husband brought debts," she says. Instead of commingling all her resources, she secretly deposited $25,000 from the sale of her condo into a bank account that listed her mother's address...