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News.com.au
07-07-2025
- Business
- News.com.au
Aussie man's outrageous home bling has everyone talking
With a chandelier four times the size of the average ceiling height, this Bankstown home takes opulence to a new level. Recently added to the market, the palatial 84 Fenwick S is highlighted by a crystal chandelier that cascades down the centre of the home. Homeowner Terry Nachabe said the 9.8m piece was designed in China and shipped back to Australia. MORE: Unreal Sydney waterfront listed for $120m Mr Nachabe required a crane just to add furniture to his dining room. 'I had to crane in a 10-seater dining table made out of travertine, as well as the marble chairs, and the massive dolphin statue outside,' he said. The six-bedroom, six-bathroom property is far from your average home - from its multiple fishtanks to the home gym which is accompanied by a sauna and steam room. It also has a style of its own, incorporating worldly design influences from Mr Nachabe's time spent travelling the globe. 'I travelled around the world and brought back about eight features I had seen in high end properties around the world, including Cyprus,' he said. 'I wanted my house to be built before its time – and it's very modern.' Mr Nachabe and his wife have lived at the property since 2008, with five of their six children having grown up and moved out of the home. Owning a home was a lifelong goal for Mr Nachabe, who spent most of his life living in rental properties. 'During our childhood, my siblings and I changed schools a number of times and we hated it, we had to make new friends and adapt to new teachers,' he said. 'I made a commitment to myself that, if I ever got married, all our kids would go to the same school, grow up together, and be in the same house until they were old enough to get married and move on.' Now looking to downsize, Mr Nachabe said it was time to give the home to another family to create new memories. Mr Nachabe said he hopes another big or multi-generational family will move in and make the home their own. With an automated home entertainment system, a pool and a newly built barbecue area, the home has all the bells and whistles for owners who love to entertain. Selling agent Joshua Nassif from Ray White Bankstown said this was a 'statement property' with unrivalled features. 'On the very top floor there is a private executive office, complete with lift access and a balcony capturing arguably the best views in the district,' he said. The property goes under the hammer on July 26.
Daily Telegraph
07-07-2025
- Business
- Daily Telegraph
Aussie man's outrageous home bling has everyone talking
With a chandelier four times the size of the average ceiling height, this Bankstown home takes opulence to a new level. Recently added to the market, the palatial 84 Fenwick S is highlighted by a crystal chandelier that cascades down the centre of the home. Homeowner Terry Nachabe said the 9.8m piece was designed in China and shipped back to Australia. MORE: Unreal Sydney waterfront listed for $120m Mr Nachabe required a crane just to add furniture to his dining room. 'I had to crane in a 10-seater dining table made out of travertine, as well as the marble chairs, and the massive dolphin statue outside,' he said. The six-bedroom, six-bathroom property is far from your average home – from its multiple fishtanks to the home gym which is accompanied by a sauna and steam room. It also has a style of its own, incorporating worldly design influences from Mr Nachabe's time spent travelling the globe. 'I travelled around the world and brought back about eight features I had seen in high end properties around the world, including Cyprus,' he said. 'I wanted my house to be built before its time – and it's very modern.' Mr Nachabe and his wife have lived at the property since 2008, with five of their six children having grown up and moved out of the home. Owning a home was a lifelong goal for Mr Nachabe, who spent most of his life living in rental properties. 'During our childhood, my siblings and I changed schools a number of times and we hated it, we had to make new friends and adapt to new teachers,' he said. 'I made a commitment to myself that, if I ever got married, all our kids would go to the same school, grow up together, and be in the same house until they were old enough to get married and move on.' MORE: Aus' most expensive home sold for $142m Now looking to downsize, Mr Nachabe said it was time to give the home to another family to create new memories. Mr Nachabe said he hopes another big or multi-generational family will move in and make the home their own. With an automated home entertainment system, a pool and a newly built barbecue area, the home has all the bells and whistles for owners who love to entertain. MORE: Unfinished home's jaw dropping price Selling agent Joshua Nassif from Ray White Bankstown said this was a 'statement property' with unrivalled features. 'On the very top floor there is a private executive office, complete with lift access and a balcony capturing arguably the best views in the district,' he said. The property goes under the hammer on July 26.
Globe and Mail
30-06-2025
- General
- Globe and Mail
Contemporary Architecture That Rethinks Florida's Coastal Identity
"Studio KHORA's radical departure from nostalgic replicas embraces climate-conscious forms, challenging conventions by constructing meaning through spatial contrast, symbolic fragmentation, and coastal resilience." Studio KHORA pushes the boundaries of modern design for waterfront homes, reshaping Palm Beach and Boca Raton into a new architectural dialogue. To speak of architecture in Palm Beach, one must now speak of rupture. Studio KHORA—recognized as one of the top Florida architects —has entered the dialogue not as a passive translator of past aesthetics but as an author of something wholly new. This is not nostalgia made concrete. It is a language of absence and presence, built for the epoche of our time: a climate of shifting oceans, technologies that render permanence unstable, and an American lifestyle that can no longer afford imported illusions. The firm's arrival signals a withdrawal from the ornamental and a turn toward the elemental. Here, design becomes a trace of what remains when tradition evaporates under the Floridian sun. Walkthough Video: I House - 2633 Spanish River RD, Boca Raton - Studio KHORA In this project, the home is not an object; it is a performance. In Boca Raton, where the iconic I House at 2633 Spanish River Road was brought into being—a top Boca Raton architects moment, awarded by the AIA—we see the philosophical inversion of classical tropes. Columns are not revived but referenced, spatially resisted, and then negated through alignment, proportion, and void. The I House was composed not to imitate, but to other classical design—allowing its clean contemporary lines to emerge through contrast. This technique is not homage, but critique: a spatial différance that allows contemporary identity to emerge from the very rejection of imported forms that never belonged to the landscape they occupy. What Studio KHORA constructs, instead, is an architecture that speaks to the real: hurricanes, humidity, the ocean's edge. It is a text written in passive ventilation, in solar glass, in the dynamic voids that resist flooding. The Palm Beach architects of record are not just making homes—they are making time visible. In this, the home is a syntax. Windows do not just open; they interrogate. Rooflines do not just shelter; they punctuate. Facades do not represent but rather interrupt, like a stammer in an otherwise smooth narrative. Here, the sign does not mirror the thing. It exposes it. For ten consecutive years, Studio KHORA has been named among the top 50 coastal architects in the U.S.—a recognition not merely of form, but of form as resistance. These structures are not objects for the eye but conditions for thought. And it is within this fracture, this refusal of the easy image, that the top Florida architects have created a new aesthetic for the American coastal home: one that listens not to what architecture once was, but what it might become.
CBS News
22-06-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Visiting luxury real estate along Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire
Sponsored by Coldwell Banker Just steps from the water's edge along Lake Winnipesaukee, this spectacular estate mixes modern architecture with breathtaking views. Host Rachel Holt arrives in style she gets an inside look at a one-of-a-kind lakeside home with one of the region's foremost real estate experts.
The Guardian
17-06-2025
- General
- The Guardian
‘A dazzling concrete crown': Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral gets long overdue appreciation
Liverpool's majestic cosmic wigwam has always faced a hard time from critics. Classicists lamented that it replaced an earlier swollen baroque design by Edwin Lutyens, which was cut short by the second world war and rising costs. Modernists found it too prissy, a brittle British version of more muscular concrete creations emerging from sunnier southern climes – a piece of Oscar Niemeyer's Brasília lost in translation between the hemispheres. Time has proved them wrong. Frederick Gibberd's striking upturned funnel is one of the finest postwar buildings in the land, standing as the most prominent Catholic cathedral of any British city, as well as the most original. It is shocking that it wasn't already Grade-I listed – a fact that reflects a broader antipathy for buildings of the era, which is slowly being corrected by a new generation. The building's genius is in its response to the site, bridging history with modernity. Gibberd's competition-winning design of 1959 cleverly drew on the unfinished crypt of Lutyens' 1930s project, using the latter's brick-and-stone vaults as a rugged rocky plinth on which to erect his startling white tent. Made of reinforced concrete clad in Portland stone, the crisp conical pavilion rises from an expansive open platform like a moon lander, extending slender radial ribs out in all directions. These flying buttresses rise to support a 2,000-tonne lantern, a floating stained glass cylinder topped with a crown of toothpick-thin steel pinnacles, ready to impale the sky. 'The great cathedrals of Christendom are generally crowns of the urban composition,' wrote Gibberd. 'Giles Gilbert Scott's tower [of the 1900s Anglican cathedral] already provided one crown for Liverpool and it seemed to me that, if it could be balanced by a tower of the Metropolitan Cathedral, the city would have a unique topography.' Thanks to him, it does, the two mighty buildings standing as spiritual bookends to the axis of Hope Street. The plinth, meanwhile, has become a vital public space, host to ballgames, lunch-hour sandwiches, and fitness fiends jogging up and down the steps. Entered through a monumental wedge-shaped bell tower, carved with abstract reliefs by the sculptor William Mitchell (who also designed the big bronze doors), the cathedral's interior is a radiant Las Vegas vision, washed with electric blue and pink light from the stained glass windows. Sixteen boomerang-shaped concrete columns rise to support the great conical roof, framing a series of side chapels below. Edged with blue glass, they are designed as individual forms, which read from the outside like a conclave of bodies, gathered around in a circle. Eschewing the usual cruciform layout, Gibberd's circular 'altar in the round' form was a direct response to the dictates of the second Vatican council, which encouraged architects to make congregations feel closer to the celebrants. 'The ministers at the altar should not be remote figures,' John Heenan, the archbishop of Liverpool, wrote in his instructions to the architect. 'They must be in sight of the people with whom they offer the sacrifice.' The resulting democratic vision is centred on an altar made of a single colossal slab of white marble – a 19-tonne block sourced from near Skopje in North Macedonia – above which hangs a spiky baldacchino canopy of aluminium rods. It is an extraordinary thing, looking as if a hi-tech spider had been asked to weave its web into a crown of thorns. Such daring comes at a price, and, over the years, the building has suffered its fair share of hiccups. Soon after opening, the aluminium roof leaked and the glass mosaic tiles fell off the concrete frame. Gibberd was sued and the archdiocese was awarded £1.3m in an out-of-court settlement. Repairs of varying quality have continued ever since, but this upgraded listing should hopefully ensure that Liverpool's dazzling concrete crown sticks around for many more generations to marvel at.
