Here's how the topic of real estate will be represented in Super Bowl ads this year: there will be a Century 21 commercial featuring guys like Donald Trump, Deion Sanders, and Apolo Ohno. Lines include: "How are Century 21 agents like the fasted skater on ice? They can react and adapt like a flash of lighting. Blinding, greased-up, shot-out-of-the-cannon lightning." [WSJ]
: City National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories House of the Day Classic Coastal Maine Estate with a Very Nouveau Price Tag On the Market Inside the Incredible Digs of Beer Heiress Daphne Guinness From Curbed Marketplace A Manse With Connections to Carole King and Courteney Cox Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Tuesday , January 31, 2012 Website of the Day Website of the Day : Fuck Your Noguchi Coffee Table Tuesday , January 31, 2012, by Sarah Firshein Click here to view the
City National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories House of the Day Classic Coastal Maine Estate with a Very Nouveau Price Tag On the Market Inside the Incredible Digs of Beer Heiress Daphne Guinness From Curbed Marketplace A Manse With Connections to Carole King and Courteney Cox Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Tuesday , January 31, 2012 Mindblowing Hinckley , England Please Meet the World's Most Unbelievable Star Trek Home Tuesday , January 31, 2012, by Sarah Firshein Photo
Frank Gehry has been tapped to design a 250-seat theater and in Culver City, Calif. The city donated the land gratis to the jazz nonprofit Jazz Bakery, whose new home will also include a museum, a black box performance area, and a bakery/café with outdoor dining. [Culver City Times via Curbed LA]
There's a decided dearth of arts coverage in Detroit's mainstream media, but Curbed Detroit's resident architecture critic Kelly Ellsworth is upping the ante. First up: a look at the modernist homes in St. Clair Shores, a neighborhood consisting of modest little ranches. [Curbed Detroit]
City National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories House of the Day Classic Coastal Maine Estate with a Very Nouveau Price Tag On the Market Inside the Incredible Digs of Beer Heiress Daphne Guinness From Curbed Marketplace A Manse With Connections to Carole King and Courteney Cox Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Tuesday , January 31, 2012 Globe Trotting Ghent , Belgium Lighting Firm Creates Church Mosaic From 55,000 LED Bulbs Tuesday , January 31, 2012, by Sarah Firshein PhotoCity National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories House of the Day Classic Coastal Maine Estate with a Very Nouveau Price Tag On the Market Inside the Incredible Digs of Beer Heiress Daphne Guinness From Curbed Marketplace A Manse With Connections to Carole King and Courteney Cox Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Tuesday , January 31, 2012 House of the Day Northeast Harbor , Maine Classic Coastal Maine Estate with a Very Nouveau Price Tag Tuesday , January 31, 2012, by Rob Bear
Colonial history buffs will delight in a 19th-century barn some 30 miles outside Philly: the three-bedroom house sits on land that was sold by Pennsylvania founder William Penn in 1682. The original house, built in 1750, burned down; the property asking $375K was built between 1825 and 1850. [Curbed Philly]
City National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories House of the Day Classic Coastal Maine Estate with a Very Nouveau Price Tag On the Market Inside the Incredible Digs of Beer Heiress Daphne Guinness From Curbed Marketplace A Manse With Connections to Carole King and Courteney Cox Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Tuesday , January 31, 2012 Celebrity Real Estate Hendersonville , . Tenn Buy the Home Where Johnny Cash Spent His Very Last Days Tuesday , January 31, 2012, by SarahCity National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories House of the Day Classic Coastal Maine Estate with a Very Nouveau Price Tag On the Market Inside the Incredible Digs of Beer Heiress Daphne Guinness From Curbed Marketplace A Manse With Connections to Carole King and Courteney Cox Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Tuesday , January 31, 2012 Celebrity Real Estate Tuesday , January 31, 2012, by Sarah Firshein Celebrity Real Estate Pimping out celebrity connections to listed homes
Enjoy Curbed? The Ruby programming language? Building full-stack web applications? You may be in luck. Curbed Network is looking to hire an NYC-based Ruby/MongoDB/jQuery developer, or someone smart and ambitious who wants to grow into one. Salary is competitive and benefits include health care and a matched 401(k). Click through for full job description and details. [The Management]
Pretty-faced former couple Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds have listed their Buff & Hensmen-designed home in the hills of Los Feliz. Known as The Wong House, the 1969 wood-and-glass contemporary was an exercise in modesty for Johansson, who formerly lived in a massive mansion in the Hollywood Hills. [The Real Estalker]
TECH TRANSFORMATION: Cornell and Technion plan to build their 18.6-hectare NYC Tech campus on the site of Goldwater Memorial Hospital , which operates on Roosevelt Island, 52-hectare sliver of land in the East River between Manhattan and Queens.
City National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories That's Rather Hideous A Dozen Extreme Bedrooms That Put the Boo in Boudoir Adventures in Marketing Cooking Ramen Naked and Other House-Showing Horrors House of the Day Immaculate Hudson Valley Mansion of John Jacob Astor III Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Tuesday , January 31, 2012 Linkage Invisible Skyscraper Kennedy Compound Neon More Tuesday , January 31, 2012, by Rob Bear Photo : Architizer World's first invisible tower is
City National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories That's Rather Hideous A Dozen Extreme Bedrooms That Put the Boo in Boudoir Adventures in Marketing Cooking Ramen Naked and Other House-Showing Horrors House of the Day Immaculate Hudson Valley Mansion of John Jacob Astor III Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Monday , January 30, 2012 Adventures in Marketing Seattle Cooking Ramen Naked and Other House-Showing Horrors Monday , January 30, 2012, by Sarah Firshein Click here to view
City National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories That's Rather Hideous A Dozen Extreme Bedrooms That Put the Boo in Boudoir Adventures in Marketing Cooking Ramen Naked and Other House-Showing Horrors House of the Day Immaculate Hudson Valley Mansion of John Jacob Astor III Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Monday , January 30, 2012 CurbedWire Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan Top Turnaround Towns Monday , January 30, 2012, by Sarah Firshein Photo via Freshome JAPAN Lovers of Frank
The AIA Silver Medal award-winning William G. Holland House, on Philadelphia's Main Line, is on the market for $1.695M. The 2,300-square-foot home was designed and built in the '50s by Frank Weise, the architect who once envisioned an elevated highway along the Philly waterfront. [Curbed Philly]
City National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories That's Rather Hideous A Dozen Extreme Bedrooms That Put the Boo in Boudoir Adventures in Marketing Cooking Ramen Naked and Other House-Showing Horrors House of the Day Immaculate Hudson Valley Mansion of John Jacob Astor III Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Monday , January 30, 2012 Furniture Wire Monday , January 30, 2012, by Sarah Firshein Furniture Wire Lots of weird furniture news happening on Gizmodo : there's inflatable
Ever the messenger of ridiculous NYC real estate records, today Curbed NY presents the most expensive apartment ever to have sold in Brooklyn. The townhouse in question? It was listed for $13.5M and just sold for $11M. [Curbed NY]
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The U.S. Green Building Council has just released stats on which states are greenest, taking into account LEED-certified buildings. Taking the cake is D.C., which has 31 square feet of LEED-certified space per capita, followed by Colorado (2.74), Illinois (2.69), and Virginia (2.42). [UnBeige]
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Gawker has published stories about terrible roommates. A snippet from the winner: "Later that day I came back from class or some activity and she had taken her hunting knife to my mattress, a lot of my clothes, our rug, our bean bag chair, and had killed a squirrel with it and left it in my bed." [Gawker]
. City National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories House of the Day Immaculate Hudson Valley Mansion of John Jacob Astor III Video Interlude Come , Let's Take a Tour of the Largest Treehouse on Earth Ski Chalet Week Unconventional New Approaches to the Traditional Ski House Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Monday , January 30, 2012 Magazine Living Home Is Where the Art Is . Monday , January 30, 2012, by Sarah Firshein The all-American characters of Gary and Elaine have wormedCity National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories House of the Day Immaculate Hudson Valley Mansion of John Jacob Astor III Video Interlude Come , Let's Take a Tour of the Largest Treehouse on Earth Ski Chalet Week Unconventional New Approaches to the Traditional Ski House Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Monday , January 30, 2012 Small Spaces Monday , January 30, 2012, by Sarah Firshein Small Spaces That woman who existed in a 90-square-foot Manhattan studio It's onward and
If you are a lady, the New York Times has some facts about what you do and don't like in hotel-room design. Things you ladies like: fresh flowers, women's magazines, and "size-appropriate slippers and robes," as well as flat irons and yoga gear. Things you don't: "pink and frilly" decor. [NYT via Jezebel]
MLB news: the three-bedroom San Francisco apartment that Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum rented not too long ago is back on the market with an ask of $1.795M. Judging by the listing photos, the place has been considerably cleaned up—it's the very same party pad that Lincecum trashed and stole from when he was living there. [Curbed SF]
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Actress Selma Blair is looking to trade her all-white Hollywood home for something a little more spacious. She has the three-bed, 3,000-square-foot house up for sale for $1.78M, and The Real Estalker thinks it has something to do with the baby boy that arrived last summer. [The Real Estalker]
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City National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories Ski Chalet Week Unconventional New Approaches to the Traditional Ski House House of the Day Tennis Champ Mats Wilander's Sun Valley Mountain Escape Celebrity Real Estate Inside Chef Gordon Ramsay's Mean New California Abode Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Friday , January 27, 2012 Housekeeping Sign Up For Curbed's Newsletter Win Some Cool Free Stuff Friday , January 27, 2012, by Sarah Firshein What better way to enrich yourself
Show and Tell: Artists Talk and Answer Questions with Shawn Dulaney and Hugh Crawford On Tuesday, February 7 , 2011 from 8-10 p.m. at The Old Stone House Remember Show and Tell in elementary school? When you got a chance to bring something in from home to show your classmates. It was simple, innocent, and fun. [...]
FIVE PLAYWRIGHTS AT THE OLD STONE HOUSE! On Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 8 p.m., Brooklyn Reading Works presents the 2012 edition of New Plays by Brooklyn Playwrights, an annual event curated by playwright Rosemary Moore. New Plays by Brooklyn Playwrights brings together five accomplished playwrights presenting their latest works-in-progress. Here’s your chance to look behind [...]
No matter the "meticulously renovated" interiors, 30-foot-high living room, historic feel of a century-old house, or Stanford White pedigree, an East Hampton, N.Y., that just can't sell. It's been PriceChopped to $34.5M after going buyer-less for a year and a half. [Curbed Hamptons]
If you can't tell your Tudors from your Storybrooks—minimal traditional from modern, anyone?—this month's Los Angeles Magazine has an awesome illustrated guide. Included: 26 examples of popular Los Angeles architecture, of which many styles are actually seen elsewhere, too. [Los Angeles Mag via Curbed LA]
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Arch Record's Dante A. Ciampaglia has some words about How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?, the new doc about British architect Norman Foster. "[It's] a starry-eyed, unabashed love letter to one of the world's leading starchitects," he writes. "It's also soulless hagiography." He adds: "But if you scratch the film's surface, that's all you find — surface." [Arch Record]
In a city full of lots of bragging rights, here's another: a 20-room Fifth Avenue apartment has just hit the market and, at $65M, it's NYC's most expensive co-op. The place belongs to songwriter Denise Rich; Curbed NY has photos. [New York Post; Curbed NY]
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: City National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories House of the Day Tennis Champ Mats Wilander's Sun Valley Mountain Escape Celebrity Real Estate Inside Chef Gordon Ramsay's Mean New California Abode Ski Chalet Week Five Celebrities Who Have Embraced the Ski Chalet Lifestyle Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Friday , January 27, 2012 Cartoon Land People Who Live in Glass Houses : the Starchitect Version Friday , January 27, 2012, by Sarah Firshein Illustration by Grant SniderCity National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories House of the Day Tennis Champ Mats Wilander's Sun Valley Mountain Escape Celebrity Real Estate Inside Chef Gordon Ramsay's Mean New California Abode Ski Chalet Week Five Celebrities Who Have Embraced the Ski Chalet Lifestyle Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Friday , January 27, 2012 On the Market Los Angeles Buy a Kelly Wearstler-Kissed Trad in the Hollywood Hills Friday , January 27, 2012, by Sarah Firshein Click here to viewCity National Boston Hamptons New York Philadelphia Washington DC Detroit Atlanta Chicago Los Angeles Seattle San Francisco Top stories House of the Day Tennis Champ Mats Wilander's Sun Valley Mountain Escape Celebrity Real Estate Inside Chef Gordon Ramsay's Mean New California Abode Ski Chalet Week Five Celebrities Who Have Embraced the Ski Chalet Lifestyle Ø Welcome to Curbed National Join us on Facebook Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed . Sign up for the Curbed National newsletter Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox . Friday , January 27, 2012 RIP Moss Friday , January 27, 2012, by Sarah Firshein RIP Moss NYC design mainstay Moss is shuttering in . Feb The briefly tax-troubled store is a
Move over, fancy shelter mags: there's a new sheriff writing about the homes of the wealthy in town. Bloomberg Pursuits, a free monthly magazine sent to users of Bloomberg Professional Terminals, will profile people who "have a command and mastery of their toys,” like the guy who "builds his own racing yacht" and another "who collects Ferraris, only to deconstruct and improve them." [WWD]
After a lull, the scourge of fire has returned to the tony Hamptons, completely destroying a 6,800-square-foot home in Water Mill last night. The house had spent an astounding 1,492 days on the market before the blaze, with a price of $4.675M. [Curbed Hamptons]