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The Fondation Le Corbusier began restoration work on the building in 2012. [2] [3] The Association Villa "Le Lac" Le Corbusier has managed the property since 1 January 2013. [3] Along with fifteen other buildings around the world designed by Le Corbusier, the Villa Le Lac was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016. [2] [4]
The Survival Condo or Luxury Survival Condo Project is a company and real estate property in Kansas, which has converted an Atlas ICBM missile silo into a 15-story underground bunker. Raven 11 history
Villa/Vila (or its cognates) is part of many Spanish and Portuguese placenames, like Vila Real and Villadiego: a villa/vila is a town with a charter (fuero or foral) of lesser importance than a ciudad/cidade ("city"). When it is associated with a personal name, villa was probably used in the original sense of a country estate rather than a ...
Villa Mairea, by Alvar Aalto, in Noormarkku, Finland. Villa Mairea is a villa, guest-house, and rural retreat designed and built by the Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto for Harry and Maire Gullichsen in Noormarkku, Finland. The building was constructed in 1938–1939. The Gullichsens were a wealthy couple and members of the Ahlström ...
Villa Cetinale in Tuscany The villa's rear façade, with paired entry stairways to the piano nobile. The Limonaia—potted lemon garden, at the villa's front. View from hill's base, along the avenue of garden axis, to villa. Villa Cetinale is a 17th-century Baroque villa and Italian garden in Tuscany.
Villa Tugendhat (Czech: Vila Tugendhat) is an architecturally significant building in Brno, Czech Republic. It is one of the pioneering prototypes of modern architecture in Europe, and was designed by the German architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich .
In 1952, Miami-Dade County acquired the villa and formal Italian gardens, which needed significant restoration, for $1 million. Deering's heirs donated the villa's furnishings and antiquities to the County-Museum. [17] [26] Vizcaya began operation in 1953 as the Dade County Art Museum. The village and remaining property were acquired by the ...
The building of Villa Emo was the culmination of a long-lasting project of the patrician Emo family of the Republic of Venice to develop its estates at Fanzolo. In 1509, which saw the defeat of Venice in the War of the League of Cambrai , the estate on which the villa was to be built was bought from the Barbarigo family . [ 2 ]