Naomi Campbell's Eye-Catching Fantasy Home

[MNeagle]

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This eco-friendly house on Cleopatra's Island in Turkey was a gift from Naomi Campbell's Russian billionaire boyfriend.
Photo: Luis de Garrido

As lavish birthday gifts go, it’s hard to top this one: Naomi Campbell (http://omg.yahoo.com/celebs/naomi-campbell/41) received an island vacation home for her 41st birthday from her Russian billionaire boyfriend Vladislav Doronin, according to numerous online reports.


Slideshow: Naomi Campbell's Eco House (http://www.cnbc.com/id/44685769?__source=yahoorealestate|naomicampbellhou se|&par=yahoorealestate)http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/re/gr2/cnbc_naomi_campbell_eco_house.jpg (http://www.cnbc.com/id/44685769?__source=yahoorealestate|naomicampbellhou se|&par=yahoorealestate)
It’s shaped like the Egyptian Eye of Horus on a location known as Cleopatra Island in Turkey’s Gulf of Gökova.




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The glass-domed, 25-bedroom, "horus" eye-shaped home invites natural light to illuminate and warm the home.
Photo: Luis de Garrido



Spanish Architect Luis de Garrido, who specializes in sustainable building, designed Eco-House Horus to be completely energy, water, and food self-sufficient. As with his other projects, he relied on careful bioclimatic design to solve efficiency challenges.


The resulting eye-shaped, dome-shaped house has no less than 25 bedrooms and five lounges. If the world ends, Campbell and Doronin and a few dozen of their lucky friends just might be able to survive.



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This exotic yet eco-friendly home has an innovative, photovoltaic-equipped lighting system.
Photo: Luis de Garrido


Campbell and Doronin are small potatoes in comparison to the island’s vastly more famous couple (hint: the island is named after one of them). As it turns out, Eco-House Horus isn’t the first time a grand gesture has been made for a ladylove on this island. A long-ago romance might have also changed the landscape of this island.


A representative of architect Luis de Garrido’s firm noted that the structure is “not an expensive house, compared with the level of this kind of house. That is, we can demonstrate that a completely sustainable building [might] be really inexpensive, and also that a self-sufficient building could be obtained by a not too much additional cost (due to a well-studied bioclimatic design).”


Turkey’s Sedir Island, aka Cleopatra Island, has been a resort destination in the Gulf of Gökova since ancient Roman times. The sand on Cleopatra Beach is said to be exceptional, and different from other nearby beaches. Local legend has it that Mark Antony imported the sand especially for Cleopatra herself, who would not set foot on any land that wasn’t Egyptian.


The black outline making up most of the eye design is comprised of photovoltaic panels, which works in combination with the geothermal system to provide all of the energy needed for the house.


http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/naomi-campbells-eye-catching-fantasy-home.html

[k-os]

Creepy. But how cool would it be if your house was "completely energy, water, and food self-sufficient". Bravo for that.

[ShortJohnSilver]

Would have thought a Russian billionaire would have had more taste...

and chosen someone other than Naomi Campbell.

[k-os]

Would have thought a Russian billionaire would have had more taste...

and chosen someone other than Naomi Campbell.

You can't buy taste . . . in architecture . . . or women.

[JohnQPublic]

1180


Obama's eye catching home

[keehah]

I'll give it a thumb up. And beautiful location.

[joboo]

Naomi's looking a bit rough off the stage. Then again, it's not like a girlfriend actually gets to keep anything after a break up.

Sweet island...

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/CNBC/Sections/News_And_Analysis/_News/_SLIDESHOWS/Naomi%20Campbell%20Egyptian%20House/Naomi_Campbell_Egyptian_Eye_Island.jpg

[keehah]

Regulations.

Illegal for commoners to take a grain of sand. Russian billionare can build house in middle of it.

http://www.maxiturkey.com/guide/marmaris/Cleopatra-Island.jpg

Cleopatra Island has one of the most unusual and perfect sandy beaches in the world. The sand is different than you have ever touched before. It is said that this organic sand was brought by ships from the Red Sea especially for Cleopatra. Each grain of sand has a perfect sphere, for this reason, the beach is protected by the government to prevent any sand being removed from the beach.

http://www.maxiturkey.com/guide/marmaris/cleopatra-island.php

You can follow a stoney path from the beach to the well preserved ruins of an amphitheatre on the island. Near the top of the hill are the ruins of a temple (converted into a church by the Byzantines). Running parallel along the eastern shore are ancient city walls and towers that have stood the test of time. The Agora, containing stones carved in the shape of hearts is a delightful attraction and also offers a panoramic view of the surrounding mountains..

After a short work through rocky olive groves you reach the “sandy” beach that is actually made up of millions of tiny, perfectly round and empty seashells, resembling pearly sand, that have taken millions of years to accumulate. Because the formation of the sand takes such an extremely long time, a great effort is made to conserve the beach, and it is therefore prohibited to take towels etc. onto the sand itself. It is said that sufferers of rheumatic aliments find that lying on this 'sand' significantly eases their complaints.
http://www.marmariscruiseport.com/marmaris_cleopatra.php

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

The dome is a neat idea, and the eye is gaudy, flaunted, tired.

The right eye is routinely shown. Why not show the left eye a little more often? Eye know why.

[mick silver]

my dream dome is a 100 ft under the gound with a grow system in it

[Awoke]

Just a friendly bump, because I started this other thread (http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?60225-Check-out-Naomi-Cambells-house), not knowing that this thread was here.

[goldleaf]

Hey! they're mining this special perfectly round sand here, by me. Its called frac sand.

[SLV^GLD]

It's all fun and games until sea level rises.

[Awoke]

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[solid]

It's all fun and games until sea level rises.

It would be neat if that whole eye shaped area around the dome was made to float. It's almost shaped like a boat anyway. That way when the sea level rises, just motor it to another island with more elevation.

[ximmy]

It would be neat if that whole eye shaped area around the dome was made to float. It's almost shaped like a boat anyway. That way when the sea level rises, just motor it to another island with more elevation.

something like this?
http://bigspace.celerity.co.uk/moviedeaths/grabs/total_recall-cohaagen-4.jpg

[keehah]

Sorry to drain away the fun....

Northern Hemisphere Sea Level Falling For Almost A Decade (http://www.real-science.com/northern-hemisphere-sea-level-falling-decade)
November 10, 2011

(Of course I'm assuming the earth is not just getting ready to sneeze.)

[solid]

something like this?

Hopefully something a little more successful than that.

Ximmy, would you mind changing your avatar? To something more pleasant, perhaps?

[Shami-Amourae]

Hopefully something a little more successful than that.

Ximmy, would you mind changing your avatar? To something more pleasant, perhaps?

Like this?
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