Luxury home where Ferris Bueller spent his day off goes up for sale for $1.65m


Homes make history for various reasons – a famous architect, a historical event or … in some cases … an epic film that captured the zeitgeist of a young generation through humor and romance. Yes, the classic modern steel-and-glass box home from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is up for sale.
For those who missed the movie, well, spoiler alert: in a climactic end scene the frustrated co-star tries to rewind the miles on his dad’s car after a day of adventure … but the idea backfires, in more ways than one.
When the plan (putting the car in reverse and propping it up) doesn’t work, he kicks the vehicle until (surprise!) it comes loose and cruises straight through the floor-to-ceiling window along the back of the house, then drops to the forest floor a few stories below.
To own this piece of cinematic history, one would need to shell out over a million and a half dollars … but don’t worry: they did fix the glass at least.
Associations aside, though, the home is truly beautiful (in a modern mininamlist way), with exposed steel structural frame, huge window panels and warm wood ceilings and floors to balance white walls, floors and appliances.
 http://dornob.com/modern-classic-famous-ferris-bueller-film-house-for-sale/


For sale: This home in Highland Park, Illinois, which featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, is on the market for $1.65m
For sale: This home in Highland Park, Illinois, which featured in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, is on the market for $1.65m
Bow bow... chicka chicka: Ferris Bueller, played by Matthew Broderick, in the famous garage scene
Bow bow... chicka chicka: Ferris Bueller in the famous garage scene
Minimalist: The home, built in 1953, was designed by architects A. James Speyer and David Haid 

The character famously has a breakdown when he returns his father's Ferrari and discovers that hundreds of miles have been added to the speedometer.
Cameron and Ferris then watch in horror as the luxury vehicle breaks through the glass garage and smashes below.
The glass-wrapped home boasts four bedrooms, three bathrooms and features floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking trees.
Architects A. James Speyer and David Haid designed the 1953 house.
The glass-enclosed garage was designed especially to store a collection of vintage cars.
The home originally went on the market in 2009 for $2.3 million.




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$4,95 million 8400 Grand View Drive Residence in LA

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A first look at this luxurious residence in one of the most exquisite neighboorhood of Los Angeles— Hollywood Hills, and you’ll understand why it’s great to be rich. Located at 8400 Grand View Drive and well hidden behind gates for privacy, the spectacular residence charms with its contemporary interior and the mind-blowing views over the busy city of LA. It’s the perfect blend of steel, glass  and stone, with floating stairs, cantilevered terraces and state of the art lighting, that brings justice to the whopping $4.95 million price. Not sure about you, but if you were to ask us what’s our favorite spot in such an amazing home, it would be really hard to only pick one. That’s nothing short of breathtaking … – via Decoist
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Luxurious 23 Oakmount Drive Residence in Beverly Hills

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This spectacular contemporary house is located close to the “famous”, at 23 Oakmount Drive in Beverly Hills. Rich in wood, with a striking black frame exteriro and large open spaces on the inside, it’s a dream home that charms with modern furniture, elegant furnishings and lots of natural light. Surrounded by a lot of “green” and with such amazing views over the bustling Los Angeles, you wouldn’t have to think twice why Westside Estate Agency have it for sale at $15.9 million. And did we mention the charming pool where you can get the perfect tan …
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Los Osos House / Agustín Landa Ruiloba





Architects: Agustín Landa Ruiloba
Location: ,
Project team: Manuel Martinez, Andrea Fisher, Pablo Bueno, Estela Alvarado, Monica Suberville, Any Zermeño, Daniel Ruiz Trejo, Gerardo Almaguer, Alfredo Ayala, Ruben Barragan, Carlos Cabrera, Carlos Fonseca, Oscar Gonzalez
Photographs: Javier Orozco, Rodrigo Ramos
 Located on the top of a rise, the house forms part of a private development in the south of . The fan-shaped lot is flat at the narrow top part, sloping down as it opens up to the south views of the Sierra Madre and the rest of the development.
Access is by way of ramps which move through the house, allowing the visitor to discover it before, during, and after crossing the threshold. The walking entrance leads to a triple-height patio delimited by the house proper and a sectioning of the lot marked by a reflecting pool which contrasts with the hardness of the space.
As of the vestibule the three-storey house divides in two volumes, one perpendicular to the other and both expressive of their separate functions: an open volume for the public areas and the master bedroom; a closed one for the private areas.
The rooftop functions as a large social space: game room, terraces, gardens, swimming pool. A light roof offers protection to these areas and unity to the geometry of walls and railings. The horizontality of the large cantilevered overhangs, ledges, terraces, and walkways provides a counterpoint to the verticality of the terrain, conveying greater lightness. The materials-local , wood, steel, and glass – offer a sense of belonging to the place.
 http://www.archdaily.com/110507/los-osos-house-agustin-landa-ruiloba/
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Essential Data From a World on the Edge


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A globe showing population projections. Photo credit: Arenamontanus/Creative Commons
The hundreds of data sets that accompany World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, illustrate the world's current predicament and give a sense of where we might go.
Here are some highlights from the collection.
Veering Toward the Edge:
As the world economy has expanded nearly 10-fold since 1950, consumption has begun to outstrip natural assets on a global scale. The same values that have allowed ecological deficits to grow are contributing to ballooning fiscal deficits around the world, threatening to undermine economic progress.
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Some of the planet's natural capital, like fossil fuels or water in non-replenishable aquifers, is finite and exhaustible. And some is regenerative; it can be thought of like an interest-earning bank account, where if the principal is maintained, one can live off of the interest indefinitely. In nature, we can harvest plants from the same land as long as soils are maintained; we can continue to catch fish from the sea as long as the catch remains below each fishery's sustainable yield; we can get water from underground as long as pumping does not exceed rates of recharge; and carbon can regularly cycle through the atmosphere, land, and oceans without major consequence.
Yet as our human family has grown and the global economy has expanded, demand has surpassed the earth's regenerative capacity. We are overharvesting forests, overplowing fields, overgrazing grasslands, overdrawing aquifers, overfishing oceans, and pumping far more carbon into the atmosphere than nature can absorb.
Many of these negative trends intersect at our global food supply. While for many years the world was making gains in reducing the number of hungry people, this progress was reversed in the late 1990s. Today close to one billion people in the world are undernourished.

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As food prices rise, the ranks of the hungry are likely to grow even larger. Following the punishing heat wave that devastated Russia's wheat harvest in summer 2010, staple grain prices have soared to near-record highs in early 2011. Rising food prices hit people on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder--many of whom spend over half their income feeding their families--the hardest.
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Governments that are unable to ensure adequate and affordable food risk political instability and social unrest. If they cannot provide basic security, they may descend into state failure. Many of the world's failing states are hampered by high population growth rates and a deteriorating resource base, and depend heavily on international food aid.


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A New Direction
Time is running short, but we can pull back from the edge. While security is a major concern for the world's governments, we have inherited a definition of security from the last century, one dominated by two world wars and the Cold War. Rather than armed aggression, today we are at risk from the fallout of climate change, population growth, water shortages, poverty, rising food prices, and failing states. Military spending worldwide exceeds $1.5 trillion annually; yet traditional defense outlays do little to address these true threats to our future. Diverting just 12 percent of global military spending can meet the goals of eradicating poverty, ensuring basic health care, stabilizing population, and restoring the earth's natural systems.
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Stabilizing climate will mean rapidly cutting carbon emissions by dramatically scaling up renewable energy, harnessing energy efficiency, restructuring transportation systems, curbing deforestation, and planting trees. That the fastest growth in the global energy industry over the last decade is in solar and wind is an early sign of hope.
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Politicians talk about cutting carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050, but more ambitious cuts are likely needed to prevent climate catastrophe. Together the climate stabilization measures described in World on the Edge would drop net carbon emissions 80 percent by 2020.
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Additional figures and tables are posted by chapter and by topic, along with full downloads of the text of World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, on the Earth Policy Institute website, www.earth-policy.org.


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