Live Where You Want

Dutch ING Bank’s WoonWaarUWilt initiative is too much fun to not tell: the service lets clients make an offer on houses that aren't on the market, but that they'd love to own. After potential buyers fill in a form, including their dream home's address and the initial offer they're willing to make, iBlue contacts them to discuss whether the offer is reasonable. A mortgage consultant also determines whether the buyers would be able to finance the purchase. iBlue then sends a preliminary offer to the property's current owners, explaining the situation.
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Inspiration cont...

Photographer Cristobal Palma's image of Casa 11 Mujeres (Eleven Women House), a cliff-top house near Santiago in Chile by architect Mathias Klotz.

Not for those with vertigo

Kathryn

In the house

RIBA and Shelter have got together to raise money for the homeless. You pay for an architect to come to your house for an hour to give you advice on how to make better use of the space etc. All the money goes to charity. Everyone wins.

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Frank Gehry Transforms Hyde Park

The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008, which this year marks the first built project by legendary architect Frank Gehry, the chap who designed the Guggenheim Bilbao and Dance House in Prague. The 9th Serepentine Pavilion opens 20 July.

The spectacular structure is anchored by four massive steel columns and is comprised of large timber planks and a complex network of overlapping glass planes that create a dramatic, multi-dimensional space. Gehry and his team took inspiration for this year’s Pavilion from a fascinating variety of sources including the elaborate wooden catapults designed by Leonardo da Vinci as well as the striped walls of summer beach huts. Part-amphitheatre, part-promenade, these seemingly random elements will make a transformative place for reflection and relaxation by day, and discussion and performance by night.

Perfection

.....90 minutes from London - designed by Starck - perfect view of the Lakes in the Cotswolds - looks like heaven.