The houses of famous athletes

Athletes are not only faster and stronger than most of us, they also claim to a large scale to life than we do.
Thus, many of them can afford to live in expensive mansions and homes. All of these homes have a huge area.
Michael Schumacher

House dutch hill

An interesting project is a Dutch design studio Denieuwegeneratie – Dutch Mountain House. This is a half-underground house, which is located in the Dutch nature reserve. In addition to the unusual architecture of the house and the original furniture – a bookcase from the “Jaguar” or the legs of the kitchen table of the bin.

The world’s steepest street

Baldwin Street, in a quiet suburban part of New Zealand’s southern city of Dunedin, is reputed to be the world’s steepest street. It is located in the suburb of North East Valley, 3.5 kilometres northeast of Dunedin’s city centre. A short straight street of some 350 metres length, Baldwin Street runs east from the valley of the Lindsay Creek up the side of Signal Hill. Its lower reaches are of only moderate steepness, and the surface is asphalt, but the upper reaches of this cul-de-sac are far steeper, and surfaced in concrete, for ease of maintenance (tar seal would flow down the slope on a warm day) and for safety in Dunedin’s frosty winters. At its maximum, the slope of Baldwin Street is approximately 1:2.86 (19° or 35%) – that is, for every 2.86 metres travelled horizontally, the elevation rises by 1 metre. The street’s steepness was unintentional. As with many other parts of Dunedin, and indeed New Zealand, streets were laid out in a grid pattern with no consideration for the terrain, usually by planners in London.