Your own private Greek isle for USD 13 million
An uninhabited private island off the coast of Greece, will go on auction at a starting price of 10 million euros ($13.2 million) in September. The sale of the island, part of the Spalathronisia archipelago that sits 500 metres (0.3 miles) from the Halkidiki peninsula, a tourist hotspot in northern Greece, is just the latest from the country’s crisis-hit landowners. The auction of the 10.4-hectare (25.7-acre) Aegean island looks set to outstrip the sale in March of six Ionian private islands to the Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, who reportedly paid 8.5 million euros for them. Greece’s privately owned islands have been sold off in greater numbers due […]
New floating museum to be Asia’s largest
Travelers have a new destination to look forward to – an Art Museum built on an artificial island, thanks to Beijing architecture studio – MAD. The Pingtan Art Museum is their third museum project. It is said that the new construction would rise to be Asia’s largest private Art Museum. Stretching across 4,000 sq.m, the cost of construction has been estimated at 800 million RMB($130 million). The artificial island would be located nearby the Pingtan Island, the largest in the Fujian province and the closest to Taiwan. The two would be connected with an undulating pier. Whereas its main form would consist of three concrete mounds, constructed from a series […]