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...Located on the banks of the Chao Phraya river, smack in the heart of old Bangkok, the complex consists of three villas?the Riverside Villa, the Thai House and the Garden Suite?constructed in an architecturally sympathetic style around the original residence. The villas offer exquisite views of the Temple of Dawn and are serviced by 12 staff. Guests are ferried around Bangkok by the villas' own longboat, river launch or tuk tuk. Breakfast is enjoyed on private terraces, while lunch or dinner can be taken on a riverside veranda. And the best part? This discreet luxury comes...
...models and drawings based on organic forms or made from flexible materials, like David Greene's witty Living Pod. The point of such work was to unlock the imprisoning grids of Modernism, to make the soap bubble as plausible a standard for construction as the cube. For their 1967 Villa Rosa project, the Viennese architects who call themselves Coop Himmelb(l)au proposed a dwelling made of attachable spherical modules. In the same era the British architect Graham Stevens produced the first inflatable structures, things so cool they found their way into early James Bond films...
...With a minimum price of $490,000 for a villa in Thames Town?more spacious digs go for $669,000?Songjiang New Town will be out of reach for many of the lower- and middle-class Shanghai residents whose housing woes these satellite towns were originally intended to address. More than 3 million migrant workers have flooded into Shanghai, and as the city center is torn up for office high-rises, 226,000 people were forced to relocate to suburbia in 2003. But a property bubble has prevented many citizens from finding affordable housing near Shanghai. "Of course, the developers...
...with the answers passes his days in Islamabad, his once peripatetic lifestyle now confined to the interior of his villa. A close friend says Khan's health is poor, and he is given to bouts of depression. Although the man may fade into obscurity, the world is only beginning to reckon with his legacy. It's still a seller's market in the nuclear bazaar. And now there's room at the top. --With reporting by Ghulam Hasnain/ Karachi, Sayed Talat Hussain/ Islamabad, Timothy J. Burger and Elaine Shannon/ Washington, Scott MacLeod/ Tripoli, Andrew Purvis/ Vienna, Simon Robinson/Johannesburg and Nahid...
...with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Fit for a King? Well, for a prince certainly. Built in Bangkok in 1908 by Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath and converted into a boutique hotel in 2003 by his granddaughter, Narisa, the Chakrabongse Villas may well be one of the Thai capital's best-kept secrets. Located on the banks of the Chao Phraya river, smack in the heart of old Bangkok, the complex consists of three villas - the Riverside Villa, the Thai House and the Garden Suite - constructed in an architecturally sympathetic style...