After lovingly restoring their Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home over a 20 year period, it’s with a heavy heart that Lawrence and Sharon Tarantino are putting their New Jersey house on the market. Unfortunately for them, with a regularly flooding river nearby it means there’s no other option. To make sure the beautiful house is saved however, the couple have listed it with the proviso that the new owner must move it somewhere safer.An Italian architect is already interested in moving the house to Fiesole – a hilltop town near Florence, where Frank Lloyd Wright once lived. To do this, the house will need to be painstakingly taken down piece by piece, transported, and then reassembled at the other end.

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Following from the re-opening of their Pacific Place store in Hong Kong last year, Louis Vuitton have taken some time to reflect on how the city has changed and how “places and cities can define our experience of time.” After first arriving in the city in 1979, Louis Vuitton have seen the landscape, as well as their own brand, change and evolve dramatically. Featuring stunning shots of the city at all times of day and night, Hong Kong Textures shows us the contrast between the fast and slow paces of Hong Kong life.

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Following the opening of its first store in the famous Swiss ski resort in 2004, Louis Vuitton inaugurates a new winter resort store on the renowned Promenade, Gstaad. The popular winter destination seems an appropriate choice given the fact that 2012 marked the historic site’s 700th anniversary of providing ample and valuable real estate for those looking for a little bit of adventure. The store is a subtle mixture of the architectural traditions and principals of Louis Vuitton and the personality of the region – thus evoking refinement, luxury, and a poetic journey that takes visitors to the heart of the Alpine valley.

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Australia-based firm Crone Partners have delivered another progression in architecture with “The Good House,” their latest project. “The Good House” is a private home collaboratively designed by the client and Crone Partners. Culturally, The Good House fits into the notion of organic growth and process, a popular demand in today’s context. It achieves this through its design, which is based on the closing and opening of rectangular wall panels throughout the house. This allows for near-infinite space combinations, and also can help accommodate the growth of the family itself. The Good House is meant to exemplify design in a limited suburban space, as well as create a comforting environment that can be lived in over time.

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Situated in Chhatarpur, New Delhi, India is this palatial residence designed by DADA Partners. The modern 12,000 sq. ft. house features wood paneling both inside and out as well as wooden louvre windows that swivel open to let in the evening breeze. The design features plenty of glass to open up the large dwelling and to create a seamless indoor/outdoor transition on the ground floor and offer spectacular framed views from the upper floor. Designed as a vacation home, this stunning house sits on 2.5 acres of land and offers the space and quiet needed for a bit of rest and relaxation.

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Located in the heart of Valencia, Spain, Francesc Rifé Studio has recently completed interior renovations of the storied Caro Hotel. Unique and authentic in style, the project was a labor of love – utilizing clean, geometric lines with the original architectonic features of the former Palace of the Marquis of Caro – making the living quarters the first historical monument-hotel in Valencia. The result is a unique collection of 26 rooms, each different from the others, yet all warm, comfortable and inviting – where the architectural balance, pure lines and simple forms endow the settings with a great visual coherence.

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The Louis Vuitton City Guide has just introduced its 2012 guide to Paris called “Paris & Perfumes.” The video takes us first through the storied history of couture fashion house perfumes, including some of the most well-known perfumes in the world, like Gabrielle Chanel’s “Chanel No. 5″ and Yves Saint Laurent’s ”Parisienne.” It transitions quickly to the Paris of today, introducing the exclusive perfume boutiques on Avenue Montagne. The video was produced by Mathias Vayer and directed by Romain Chassaing.

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Taking a decidedly more upscale aesthetic and build-out, the artful design of one of China’s Holiday Inn locations is expertly showcased via this glass bottom swimming pool found in the hotel chain’s Shanghai branch. A full 24 stories above the ground, the deep end portion of the 30 meter-long pool extends out from the building with its bottom made of toughened glass that suspends swimmers “in air.” Your move, Howard Johnson Plaza Hotel of Shanghai.

Home to some of the most beautiful and progressive architecture in the entire world, Dubai will soon see the construction of a hotel with submerged, underwater rooms that offer unparalleled views of the Persian Gulf. Conceived by designers Deep Ocean Technology and dubbed the Water Discus Hotel, the building will be the first of several in the emirate and will feature an underwater section of 21 rooms, a dive center and bar up to 10 meters below the sea’s surface. A unique lighting system will illuminate the scene outside the submerged rooms’ windows while macro photography will also allows guests to zoom in on the surroundings for a better view. With the above water portions of the hotel suspended high enough to avoid tsunamis and flooding, the underwater disc is engineered to surface in the event of a storm or other danger.

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Next up on the Louis Vuitton City Guide 2012 is Hong Kong. After the successful London tour, director Romain Chassaing visits the growing city to check out their culture, cuisine, tea houses and more. ThisCity Guide takes us on a personal tour of some of Hong Kong’s local spots for behind the scenes news. Look for the Hong Kong City Guide 2012 to hit Louis Vuitton stores.

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The Roma Cinema Etoile, Rome’s oldest movie theater, had been shuttered for more than twenty years until Louis Vuitton co-opted the building for its brand new store in the heart of the Italian capital. A video released by Louis Vuitton takes the viewer on a tour of the Roma Etoile Maison, revealing a beautifully appointed space equipped with an elliptical staircase, gleaming fixtures and an in-house screening room. Architect Peter Marino explains that his primary concern was that the concept of the movie theater remain intact, while Louis Vuitton CEO Yves Carcelle lauds the store’s ability to bring “additional emotion” by presenting a bookstore, art, and cinema as part of the Louis Vuitton retail experience.

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The Armani Group and Emaar Properties PJSC are pleased to announce that the official opening of Armani Hotel Milano, the second hotel in the Armani Hotels & Resorts portfolio, is scheduled for 10th November 2011. Exclusively situated in the Manzoni 31 building, right at the heart of the prestigious Quadrilatero della Moda, Armani Hotel Milano embodies, in all its facets, Giorgio Armani’s personal aesthetic philosophy, which is based on the signature qualities of elegance, sophistication and comfort.

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Looking to buy a hat? You’ll need an expert to fit your skull. Here’s where to go …..

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Sunset views, saucy cuisine, seductive wine lists: let the sparks fly at America’s most romantic restaurants.

Well, forget all that. Real romantic restaurants have cut the fluff. Instead, they’ve focused on what’s really important: great food and wine, excellent service, and an authentic ambience. We think it’s pretty simple: a great romantic restaurant should make you feel the way a great romantic partner does—appreciated, special, and like you’re the only person in the room. From cozy mountaintop huts to candlelit seaside enclaves, here’s where to find America’s most romantic restaurants. For that great partner, though, you’re on your own.

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This lot measures about three-and-a-half acres and gave him the space he needed to create a home featuring walls of glass. Though in the early seventies an average family home was costing a whopping $5.000 US Dollars and a luxury mansion $100.000. Less then forty years have passed and times have changed and a luxury mansion these days does not go bellow $1 Million and that is when you want to live small and compact.

The Glass Pavilion and it measures close to three and half acres, which is more then enough for the average American family including all brothers and sister, father, mother and if still alive all grandparents.

Montecito California is an attraction richer with this multi million glass palace. The total construction took close to six years. Montecito well known for its stunning views is proud to have this extra media attention coming to town. The house overlooks the Montecito fern and oak covered landscape.

The architect Herman tells our correspondent; “In this house I have total privacy, and that’s the way I like it. And it allows me to feel one with nature from the comfort of my

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