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Thursday, July 22, 2004

Beautiful apartments? Look overseas

Apartments in Florence, Italy

This is at least true if you google ‘beautiful apartments’ - four of the top five results at the time of this publishing are in other countries, namely Europe.

Now, since the point made yesterday is that the most effective way to provide affordable housing is via multi-family, it would seem rather inspiring to find the most beautiful multi-family housing in the world.

What makes them beautiful?  It’s important to understand this from the tenant’s point of view - and that’s a great view, whether it’s the ocean, an active square or a vibrant street.  It’s not all about an ocean view either - at Mizner Park in Florida, the apartments facing the square filled up before the ones facing the ocean.

Interestingly, because the buildings fronting these active squares are so prominent, great care is taken in making them more beautiful to look at.


Posted by Neil Takemoto in • Attainability | (0) Comments | Link
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