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4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, Built area 240m2, Swimming-pool

Impressive, newly constructed modern villa with private pool in Calpe (Alicante), with fantastic seaviews and view to Peñón de Ifach, situated in a very quiet area surrounded by forest. This villa is arranged on 2 floors with a living area of approx. 240 m2. It has an enclosed plot of 800 mo aprox. With a parking area for 3-4 cars.

Ground floor: large living-dining room with fantastic view to the sea, Peñón de Ifach and the pool and with access to the terrace and the pool area. 1 guedt toilet. Seperate kitchen, completely equipped. 2 large double bedrooms, both of them with bathroom en suite (one with shower and one with bath).

Upper floor (access by internal stairs) 2 large double bedrooms, each of them with bathroom with shower en suite. Accsess to the solarium with views to the sea, Peñón de Ifach and the pool.
External: nice, enclosed plot with garden, very private, pool of 4,5x5m. The villa has central heating throughout the house.

More information on the following link: spainhouses.net

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Designing and constructing a church has never been an easy task for architects. It is a challenge to create a space not meant for accomodation or further customization, but a space that has its own soul, gives an aura of serenity and conveys intimate spiritual experience. This particular church, completed in 2008 in a town La Laguna on the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain), is a challenge well done by Fernando Menis of the Menis Arquitectos.

The building consists of four volumes, visually separated by rifts in the walls that align into cross on the front nave. Apart from the obvious symbolic function they allow the daylight into the interior which strengthens the calm meditative atmosphere. The whole structure takes up more than 1000 m² and cost 600,000 euro.

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Development madness turned Spain into the European country that created the most urban land between 2000 and 2006, according to a recent study by the European Environmental Agency (EEA). A series of satellite images show that over this period, Spain accounted for 24 percent of all newly developed land in the European Union, followed by France with 12 percent and Germany with nine percent.

Spanish Country 300x225 - The bright side of the property crisisThe subsequent economic crisis has served to slow down this trend, benefiting green areas and arable land, as well as some of the animal and plant species that live in them. But the real estate bubble has left behind enough land already classified as available to build on to last the next 35 to 40 years at an average annual pace of around 150,000 new housing units, according to the Public Works Ministry's Urban Information System.

That means there are 709,577 hectares of land that could still be rescued and returned to nature.

It is this great pocket of land that environmentalists want to win back by having it reclassified as green space once more, at least in cases where construction is not imminent. It will not be easy because money, or the promise of it, is at stake.
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6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, Area Lot 1,112m2, Built area 545m2, Seaside Resort, Brand New, Luxury property, In Urban Area, On golf course, Marbella (Málaga)

Villa Los Naranjos is an amazing new villa situated in a Golf Resort. With a plot of 1112m2 and a house of 545 m2, the property has a 100 m2 terrace and if offers great views to the sea and the mountains.

The Villa is a built with 6 bedrooms and 6 bathrooms. You can also see a full equipped kitchen, garage and radiant floor, sauna and Jacuzzi.

To contact the real estate agency, click on the following link: spainhouses.net

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The twin office towers known as Puerta de Europa I and II located in Madrid, Spain defy the typical conventions of skyscraper construction. Designed by American architects Philip Johnson & John Burgee and commissioned by the Kuwait Investment Office (KIO), these structural expressionistic towers straddle one of Madrid’s most important boulevards – the Paseo de la Castellana.

The location of a subway interchange made the placement of the two towers near the street impossible. Their bold design is in part a response to the need for the footprints of the towers to be set back from the interchange while at the same time bringing the towers together as a single compositional whole. The towers lean towards each other and over the plazas, ensuring their visibility from up and down the Paseo and creating a portal which, being at the Northern end of the business district of Madrid, has been called a metaphorical gateway to Europe. The façade of each tower is a composition of a major grid -clad in stainless steel conforming to their structure-, a minor grid of red mullions, and a third grid comprising the light grey mullions of the curtain wall.

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