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1 week ago | 
forbes.com | Nielsen Dinwoodie
The art of architecture is simple. Yes, there’s science in it too, but it’s beyond the operationally functional where the meaningful exists. The art is to help those who enter a created space experience a mix of comfort and interest, resolution and surprise. One new example sits on the Dalmatian island of Čiovo. Where is Dalmatia? From the Tuscan jewelbox of Florence, take to the air directly east across the Adriatic Sea. The Dalmatian coast sparkles before you.
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2 months ago | 
forbesglobalproperties.com | Nielsen Dinwoodie
Environmental standards like this live across the entire estate. From the first drawing board, the vision and the spirit of the Elounda Hills venture has put environmental stewardship at the heart of every decision. “It’s so forward-looking,” says Mrs Roula Rouva, head of Roula Rouva | Forbes Global Properties, strategic partners of the project with exclusive representation of a variety of the Phase 1 villas reaching the market in 2028.
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2 months ago | 
forbes.com | Nielsen Dinwoodie
Do people buying a property ever think about the people selling it? Probably only if a compelling narrative exists. One such occurred in Spain in 2020, when an act of personal endeavor emerged as a story of heroic proportions. The story was not universally reported, and few beyond Madrid are aware of it today. Nor is this because the protagonist is a shrinking violet, he is a leading European industrialist. The veil around the event occurs because it concerns something we’d all prefer to forget.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Nielsen Dinwoodie |Kitty Finstad
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Mary Forgione |Nielsen Dinwoodie |Catherine Dunwoody |Spencer Elliott
If you had to describe what typifies L.A. architecture, what would you say? Is it the white-walled, red-tile-roof Spanish Colonial style that springs to mind? The neo-Georgian mansions of Bel Air or the old-school pomp and glamor of Hollywood Regency? Or maybe you feel it’s Mid-century Modern, Art Deco or even the futuristic post-war experiment known as Googie that has had the greatest impact on the Californian city’s streetscape.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Nielsen Dinwoodie
The world has always been different for protected species. Safeguarded against predators, inoculated against disease. Protected species live charmed lives—until the day, if such a day ever comes, we’re all overwhelmed by events beyond our control. Happily, that won’t happen suddenly, if at all. The four horsemen always need time to saddle up. But, according to current commentators, events today are gathering into a perfect storm.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Nielsen Dinwoodie
Here on the Mediterranean island of Corfu, time was that anyone with a passion for the lapping of waves was free to construct their private paradise on a beach—and as close to the waterline as they wished. Not so now. Ever since coastal erosion became a phrase and local legislation came into force in 2001, building a residence so proximate to the water has been forbidden.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Nielsen Dinwoodie
Spain. Tomato capital of the world. Especially on the last Wednesday of August each year when, in the little town of Buñol (pop. 9,000), a heaving mass of 20,000 ticketed people travel from near and far to gather in the confines of the public square and, under the searing heat of the Spanish afternoon, hurl inedible rotten tomatoes at each other. For exactly an hour. If the festival of La Tomatina is all chaotic fun, that’s what makes it different from most fiestas.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
forbesglobalproperties.com | Nielsen Dinwoodie
Picking up an award is often its own reward. But when a gong stands for more than personal achievement, that’s when other people benefit too. When Tom Pirelli built a home in Jupiter, Palm Beach in 2007 that a year later became the first in Florida to fly the pinnacle flag of a LEED Gold Award – the international accolade in built sustainability – his ambition lay beyond reducing his monthly utility bill. The sustainability agenda is a common talking point in real estate today. Not so much in 2007.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Nielsen Dinwoodie
Time travel. Is it really a thing? For any aficionado of mid-century design, standing in the orbit of a particular house in Dana Point, Orange County, the answer is absolutely yes. So let’s travel back to 1945, because that’s when Californian architectural history got rewritten. There’s a man sitting behind the editor’s desk of Arts and Architecture magazine in a musty office on Wilshire Boulevard.
