This Week’s Crazy Building: The Broad

Broad Museum, Los Angeles by Sharon VanderKaay is licensed under CC BY 2.0
You may already know this building, The Broad is a new contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles. It was founded philanthropists Eli and Edyth Broad and built in 2015. Some of their goals are to enrich, educate, inspire, and foster appreciation of today’s art. One way they do that is by offering free admission.
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This Week’s Crazy Building: The Gasometers

Gasometer Vienna by Bwag is used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / Enhanced slightly from original
What do you do with four 100-year-old, 295,000 cubic foot capacity gas tanks that you are no longer using? Well, if you are the city of Vienna, you convert them into apartment buildings and shops! The Gasometers in Vienna were originally constructed in 1899 and used for nearly 100 years. The gas containers housed inside
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Story Time With Gary: A Gem of a Guy

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   It’s time for another edition of “Story Time With Gary.” My story today is from all the way back in the 1980s. Back then, it wasn’t uncommon for the buyer’s agent
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Real Estate Wire Fraud Warning

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   Recently, there has been an epidemic of wire fraud in real estate transactions. For the most part, this scam impacts buyers, although sellers have been victims in the past. If you
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You’re Invited to an Open House Extravaganza

Looking to sell your San Diego home? Get a free home value report Buying a San Diego home? Search all homes for sale   I want to take a quick minute today to invite you to my open house extravaganza! Join us at 5035 San Joaquin Drive in Pacific Beach on Saturday, October 29th from
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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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