When I saw the title of the book, “Houses that Sugar Built: An Intimate Portrait of Philippine Ancestral Homes” by Gina Consing McAdam and Siobhán Doran (Oro Editions, 2023), I knew it was a book I had to buy.
New affordable flats in a housing estate have been given the go ahead after councillors were told they would be built off-site and craned into place. Ark Housing Association plans to build 12 flats on land in Windsor Square, Penicuik, using a modular system which will see blocks built in a factory. A meeting of Midlothian Council’s planning committee today approved the proposals which received nine objections from local residents concerned about the impact on parking, road safety and the look of...
RIO ARRIBA COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – Airbnb is bringing a one-of-a-kind experience to New Mexico with the installation of its Up House, a real-life replica of Carl and Ellie's home from the 2009 Disney/Pixar film "Up." The detailed recreation of the animated home is located in Abiquiu and is open for stays starting in June. The []
The Klingons teach us—probably—that every living being is really just searching for the perfect death. To that end: What could be a more fitting end than to be the person who forgets they booked Airbnb’s floating Up house, walks out their rented front door one morning, and plummets off their front step and straight into the annals of (extremely fatal) history? The “hotels but without all those pesky extras like quality control” booker announced its new “Icons” line of gimmick rentals this week,...
“Meet the Double Agent Who Now Controls House Conservatives,” the headline reads. “The spy’s mission was simple,” the story begins. “Gain their trust, become one of them, and eventually take them over.” The article claims to describe “the perfect mole” — a “clean-cut” politician “hungry for power and influence.” The subject: Republican Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana. The twist: It was written in November 2018 — five years before Johnson rose to become the unlikely speaker of a deeply...
If you love the Pixar movie 'Up' and would like to stay in a house tied to balloons, Airbnb has the home for you.
A new study by the Institute of Cornish Studies is looking why all the new homes are not helping much
"This house is just there, like a cloud following me around, and it keeps raining on me," says Anne Reynolds of the home she did not permit to be built on her Big Island of Hawaii property. Anne Reynold was surprised to find, in 2022, that a home had been built and was being sold on a formerly empty lot she purchased in 2018. — Read the rest
To the editor: Your article on the DIY house built by homeless immigrants in Highland Park vividly brought to mind the various favelas I saw in Rio de Janeiro many years ago. Many of them were intricately constructed of several different materials, some with a great deal of skill and artistry. And I could not help wondering at the time how there was such a disparity in that city between the extremely wealthy and so many poor people living in these shacks. I keep wondering the same thing now. If...
On today's show: David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC/Gothamist, talks about some of the latest housing news, including the landlord facing possible "house" arrest and the Rent Guidelines Board preliminary vote on rent increases of 2 - 6 percent. Aaron David Miller, senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, former State Department advisor on the Middle East, and the author of several books, including The Much Too Promised Land:...
I run from room to room, touching things as if they’ll somehow transport me to the past. Not much has changed in the old weatherboardGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMany years ago, a friend from university invited some of us to his mum’s beach house at Walkerville South. His mum had bought the house super cheap before the world had discovered that there was another impressive coastline in Victoria, far away from the more established houses of the...
Abigail Edan was three when she saw her parents murdered in front of her. She turned four in captivity. And a few months before her fifth birthday, she played with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office.