For a Country House, His Own Private London
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Terence Conran, who popularized a bright and colorful Modernist agenda, was thrilled in the 1970's to find a stately home that was in complete disrepair.
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New Delhi: When someone as colourful as the Chairman of the Virgin group, Sir Richard Branson, comes visiting there is bound to be some fun and games.
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HOPKINTON -- If there's one room in the house that's his, Ron Sargent says it's the home office.
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It's not a deep, dark cave inhabited by  Gollum, nor a hall of stone belonging to a Dwarf-lord -- it's  just an ordinary house in the heart of England's suburbia.
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Mark Thatcher likes his privacy. at the whitewashed mansion he shares with his wife and two children in Constantia, outside Cape Town, security guards patrol along the neatly trimmed hedges, and a closed-circuit
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Tony Hix, a do-it-yourselfer who recently renovated his Washington house, has now decided he can sell it himself, too.
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Britain's Houses of Parliament, its celebrated neo-Gothic exterior a symbol of the nation itself, will go behind an electric fence, roadblocks and even a floating barrage in the Thames under new security rules ...
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In his Glass House, Americaâs most public architect, Philip Johnson, created an utterly transparent intimacy.
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Group travel has never been easier thanks to a crop of private homes boasting luxe amenities.
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WestonÂ· In a city where lush landscaping is the law, a different kind of garden was growing inside a $500,000 Weston Hills Country Club home, snuggled in the same development where the mayor lives.
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A British architectural historian has an unusual specialty: he focuses on architectsâ designs that have been taken apart.
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AFP/File - Sinclair Beecham, founder of London's first &quot;luxury-budget&quot; hotel, describes himself as a customer, not a hotelier -- and to prove it he's offering city-centre rooms for a pound a night.
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Â·  Businessman to help with Madeleine parents' bills Â·  Reports suggest couple to employ own search team
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Following President George W. Bush across the American landscape as he fights to keep his job for a second term, you more often than not must pass through the busier parts of town and enter the gates of a private enclave.
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Why the man who controls Gucci had to have his own museum.
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After his last experience in northern England, the designer Thomas Heatherwick could be forgiven for keeping his works of public art within the safer confines of London.
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By SUE LEEMAN LONDON - Putting his money where his environmentalist mouth is, Prince Charles is swapping gas-guzzling private planes and helicopters for commercial flights, train journeys and biodiesel cars.