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Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
I just got a book, The Sky's the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhatten. It's about the insanely high-priced real estate in Manhatten, and the insanely rich people who buy it. So far, it's an extremely dishy read (lots of bad behaviour by really famous people). Anyway, some of you will recall that Bono was rumoured to have bought a new place in New York from Apple founder Steve Jobs. Here's the story:
Speilberg's renovation was simple compared with the seven-year saga of Apple Computer founder Steve Job's complete refurbishment, including windows, of the north tower of the San Remo - an apartment he never lived in. Jobs bought the triplex from Jacob Rothschild, of the French banking family, along with unexecuted plans by Robert A.M. Stern, the dean of the Yale School of Architecture. But Jobs didn't care for Stern's ideas, so he hired world-renowned architect I. M. Pei for his only known apartment-renovation job. Over the next seven years the tower apartment and the neighbours endured a renovation said to have cost $15 million. The results are striking but not very pretty -- a study in grim, gray granite, with granite floors imported from Europe, and twelve-foot-tall nickel and bronze doors that weigh eight hundred pounds each but are so precisely balanced that they can be opened and shut with a fingertip. In the master bedroom, at the very top of the tower, there are six pivoting, single-pane windows that cost $80,000 each to fabricate. By the time the apartment was finished, Jobs had lost interest and he never moved in. It was uninhabited for a decade. In 2002 Jobs quietly put it on the market for $26.5 million, but with no takers interested in living in a granite quarry, he eventually dropped the price to $18 million, and sold it to Bono, the Irish rock star, who moved from the El Dorado just down the street.
Sounds pretty strange,and it's huge. Here's a link to a photo of the building. Bono occupies the top of the tower on the right.
http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=155595
Speilberg's renovation was simple compared with the seven-year saga of Apple Computer founder Steve Job's complete refurbishment, including windows, of the north tower of the San Remo - an apartment he never lived in. Jobs bought the triplex from Jacob Rothschild, of the French banking family, along with unexecuted plans by Robert A.M. Stern, the dean of the Yale School of Architecture. But Jobs didn't care for Stern's ideas, so he hired world-renowned architect I. M. Pei for his only known apartment-renovation job. Over the next seven years the tower apartment and the neighbours endured a renovation said to have cost $15 million. The results are striking but not very pretty -- a study in grim, gray granite, with granite floors imported from Europe, and twelve-foot-tall nickel and bronze doors that weigh eight hundred pounds each but are so precisely balanced that they can be opened and shut with a fingertip. In the master bedroom, at the very top of the tower, there are six pivoting, single-pane windows that cost $80,000 each to fabricate. By the time the apartment was finished, Jobs had lost interest and he never moved in. It was uninhabited for a decade. In 2002 Jobs quietly put it on the market for $26.5 million, but with no takers interested in living in a granite quarry, he eventually dropped the price to $18 million, and sold it to Bono, the Irish rock star, who moved from the El Dorado just down the street.
Sounds pretty strange,and it's huge. Here's a link to a photo of the building. Bono occupies the top of the tower on the right.
http://www.emporis.com/en/il/im/?id=155595
He'll never hear me if I call from the street!
Or does he own multiple pads like those rap celebrities 
yeah that's freakin' huge.
!!! I wonder how amazing that must be
