This Week’s Crazy Building: One Central Park, Australia

Sun scoop + greenwall by Rob Deutscher is licensed under CC BY 2.0
One Central Park, located in Sydney, Australia combines a high-rise apartment building with vertical gardens to a beautiful effect. The gardens are comprised of 38,000 plants, including 250 native and exotic types of plants. The gardens will vary in appearance depending on the season. One Central Park contains over 600 apartments along with restaurants and
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This Week’s Crazy Building: The Dunmore Pineapple

Dunmore pineapple by giannandrea is used under CC0 1.0
The Dunmore Pineapple is part of Dunmore House, the former family estate of the Earls of Dunmore, located in Scotland. The Pineapple is about 45 feet high and flanked with two small guest rooms. Inside the estate are walled gardens. The protective walls keep the temperature inside the garden a few degrees warmer than outside
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This Week’s Story Time With Gary: Bidding War

I used to help a developer find lots to build condos on. It turns out I wasn’t the only one he hired for the job. Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   Welcome back to another edition of
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Don’t Trust Your Zestimate

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   Can you really find out what your home is worth on Zillow? The simple answer is no. People come to me all the time telling me, “Well, Zillow said this or
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Federation Square

Federation Square by Francisco Anzola is licensed under CC BY 2.0
This week’s crazy building is Federation Square in Melbourne, Australia. This series of uniquely designed buildings cover about an entire city block and also had to fulfill a challenge: to complement several historical buildings as well as integrate a river into its design! It features buildings, two open squares, and one covered square. Trains run
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Yas Hotel

YAS-Hotel by le1parrain is licensed under CC BY 2.0
This week’s crazy building is the Yas Hotel in Abu Dhabi. One part is actually built right into a racetrack and is the only hotel in the world to have been constructed in this way! The other main building of the hotel is located right next to the marina. The other notable feature of this
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Cocoon Tower

Cocoon Tower by kuracom is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
This week’s crazy building is the Cocoon Tower in Tokyo, Japan. It was completed in 2008 and is the home of 3 educational institutions. At 669 feet tall, it is the 2nd tallest educational building in the world and Tokyo’s 17th tallest building. It can accommodate 10,000 students. In 2008 it was awarded Skyscraper of
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This Week’s Crazy Building: L’Oceanogràfic

L'oceanogràfic by TimOve is licensed under CC BY 2.0
L’Oceanogràfic or The Oceanographic was opened in 2003 and is located in Valencia, Spain. It is the largest Oceanarium in Europe and has an astounding water capacity of 11,000,000 gallons! It accommodates 45,000 animals including: fish, sharks, penguins, dolphins, sea lions, walruses and beluga whales to name a few. What we can’t see in this
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Statoil Building

Statoil Fornebu, Norway by Robin Parker is licensed under CC BY 2.0
This week’s crazy building is the Statoil Building which is in Fornebu, Norway. This building was created for the Statoil Company which is an energy producer. The Statoil building which appears to be falling down is actually very energy efficient and uses only a fraction of the energy such a building normally would. Another wonderful
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This Week’s Crazy Building: Rusty Building

Broadcasting Tower, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, from Willow Terrace Road by Tim Green is licensed under CC BY 2.0
This week’s crazy building is the Rusty Building in Leeds, England. Known officially as Broadcasting Tower, this structure is most notable for one particular feature: Its facade is covered in COR-TEN weathering steel. When exposed to the elements over a few years, this special type of steel eventually forms a deep red, rust-like appearance. For
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