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The online magazine Luxury Defined from Christie’s International Real Estate presents a collection of castles and châteaux with timeless charm and contemporary comforts. Whether the castle of your dreams is Gothic, Baroque, or Neoclassical, these residences exemplify master craftsmanship on a grand scale with timeless order and contemporary appeal. And for those whose bank balance is high enough, these castles can be bought. 

The usual foliage is there in abundance, but the trunks of the emerging urban forests are made from bricks and mortar. The online magazine Luxury Defined from Christie’s International Real Estate meets the architects bringing the jungle to our urban centers. You will understand how architects and designers are increasingly shrouding and softening the hard-edged stone and concrete planes of urban buildings with lush vegetation.

Time and again, architectural gigaprojects, especially from the Arab world, surprise us with new ideas. Recently Saudi Arabia shocked the architectural community with its futuristic or even surreal plan for a 500-meter-tall and 170 kilometers long linear city named The Line and the architecture firm ZNera Space has recently proposed a giant ring-like structure to encircle Dubai’s Burj Khalifa.