Architecture

MEMAR Exclusive Interview: From Dubai to the World MEMAR Architecture is a high-end company that provides services from architecture and interior design to landscaping and engineering practices. Based in Dubai, UAE, MEMAR delivers services worldwide, always with the motto: Design Your Satisfaction. MEMAR – An exclusive interview MEMAR Architecture was founded in 2008 in Dubai, the chosen home country for the company since it is one of the countries that keep evolving and growing in architecture and interior design. Thus, they wanted to be part of this incredible growth and challenge themselves to add a unique mark to the plan....

Migliore+Servetto conceives the Interior, Exhibition & Multimedia Design of the Procuratie Vecchie of Piazza San Marco in Venice     The Migliore+Servetto studio, internationally recognised for its excellence in exhibition design and the design of communication spaces, was chosen by Generali Group to design the new headquarters of The Human Safety Net. The 3000 sqm project includes the Interior, Exhibition & Multimedia Design of the  third floor and the reception spaces on the ground floor of the Procuratie Vecchie in Piazza San Marco, with artistic direction by Davide Rampello.   The project is divided into four distinct areas: an exhibition...

  Engel & Völkers lists “Polar Express” Ranch for 17.5 million US dollars The ranch where author Chris Van Allsburg lived for a time is currently up for sale for approx. 17.5 million US dollars (approx. 15 million euros). Van Allsburg lived here in the 1980s and wrote the world-famous children’s book “The Polar Express”, which was later made into a blockbuster feature film. “The ranch is truly unique; it is located adjacent to the 225 acre Puzzleface Ranch, Wyoming’s first conservation easement, which gives it perpetual, protected Teton views.  It is the ideal retreat for letting your eyes gaze...

France’s Historic Petit Versailles Château Sold – Inspired Pablo Picasso   Some 36 kilometres west of Paris, Château du Marais is located in the French municipality of Le Val-Saint-Germain, in the Essonne region. The château was built in the 18th century by the architect Jean Benoît Vincent Barré and is known as “Petit Versailles”. For many years the estate was owned by the Pourtalès and Frotier de Bagneux families, who commissioned Engel & Völkers with the sale. “Every château stands as testimony to a long tradition where history passed down to a new custodian. Brokering such properties requires proven expertise,...

Historic New England Castle Sold – Connected To ‘Curse of the Bambino’   Historic New England Castle Sold – Connected To ‘Curse of the Bambino’ One of America’s spectacular castle homes was once owned by Harry H. Frazee, the Boston Red Sox owner who traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in 1920 for $120,000 - the most lopsided American trade since the Dutch bought Manhattan in the 1600s for $24 worth of trinkets. The Ruth trade was the start of the Curse of the Bambino. With the Yankees, Ruth became the most dominant baseball player of the 20th...