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Rich X Rich

2012-10-30T00:09:00-04:00

Double happiness by Zaha Hadid and Philippe Starck .

A house for Russian billionaire and his gf Naomi Campbell. And a Steve Job design directed yacht called Venus.

Architects + Architecture + the power of money.

"Taking over the galaxy? Naomi Campbell's Russian billionaire boyfriend builds her a house that looks like a spaceship by Zaha Hadid, who specializes in ecostyle buildings and was also the brains behind famous buildings including the opera house in Guangzhou and the Olympics Aquatics Center in London." The Mail

“I know that it’s possible I will die and leave Laurene with a half-built boat. But I have to keep going on it. If I don’t, it’s an admission that I’m about to die.” Mashable

A Prefab, Short on the Fab

2012-04-19T15:52:00-04:00

Affordability, along with a minimalist aesthetic, were the reasons she decided on a prefab house — points on which Mr. Buryk, who had years before remodeled a 100-year-old house in Portland, Ore., wholeheartedly agreed. “I, similar to Zoe, was coming from a place of not wanting to do that again,” he said. But it wasn’t quite as affordable as they had hoped. The house cost $260,000 to build, from start to finish (the kit itself was $47,000) — nearly $100,000 more than they’d expected.

A house built from more than a billion euros

2012-02-01T11:51:00-05:00

The house is constructed from sheets of plywood and frames donated by a local DIY shop. The outside walls are built from stacked bricks while inside, the shredded euros are used to plaster the walls and carpet the floor. It has a double glazed window, a high security front door and a toilet.

Artist Frank Buckley decided to express his anger about the property boom and bust by building a house from more than a billion euros of decommissioned notes.

Zaha Hadid makes rich list for first time

2011-05-10T16:05:55-04:00

Zaha Hadid has made the Sunday Times Rich List for the first time, with her personal wealth estimated at £37 million. Hadid features in the extended list of the UK’s 2,000 wealthiest people, due to be published in full later this month. The threshold for entering the top 1000 is £70 million.

Previously discussed: Zaha Hadid to make 100 staff redundant