FArch2: November 2013

Legend Point is a stunning home belonging to basketball star Michael Jordan.

The home has 9 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, and covers an area of 56,000 square feet.

Legend Point:

“Michael Jordan’s Personal Residence

Set on 7.39 immaculately landscaped acres just north of Chicago, the longtime personal residence of Michael Jordan offers the ultimate in privacy and luxury. This secluded compound includes 56,000 square feet of living space, with 9 bedrooms, 15 full bathrooms and, as one might expect from this basketball legend, a regulation-size, NBA-quality basketball court — all surrounded by a living fence of 150 mature evergreens, creating an envelope of unparalleled privacy.

Beautiful Living

While many areas of the home provide a cozy, intimate setting for friends and family, the public living areas welcome guests to expansive, light-filled rooms. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame the family room, an exercise in understated elegance with plush carpeting, built-in aquarium, and a fireplace. Likewise, in the soaring two-story living room, a series of ten floor-to-ceiling windows makes the dramatic outdoor landscaping as much a part of the room as the cove ceilings and circular design.

Steps away from the living room is the intimate formal dining room. Here, the vast ceiling height drops to create a warm ambience, ripe for conversation over dinner and drinks. The room can display large works of art with ease, each piece highlighted with museum-quality lighting.

Breakfast of Champions

The contemporary main kitchen is a masterpiece of both design and functionality, whether hosting a catered affair or enjoying a simple bowl of cereal at the breakfast bar. It includes a ventilated island food prep area with gas Gaggenau cooktop, double convection ovens, a combination steam oven, and two dishwashers.

The kitchen flows into the casual dining room, a beautiful, airy rotunda flooded with natural light that opens onto a terrace for al fresco dining.

Luxurious Suites

The property includes nine bedrooms, with six located in the primary residence. All include spacious closets and en suite bathrooms. The master suite (not pictured) is an inviting 504 square feet, set into a curved wall with windows overlooking the landscaped lawn. The master bedroom shares a three-sided fireplace with a private lounge and the master bathroom. His-and-hers closets, a dressing and make-up area, and a sky-lit bathroom complete this luxurious suite.

Where the Living is Easy

This, friends, is where it all happens. Where the good times roll. Tucked away on the lower level of the primary residence, you’ll find a card and cigar room with a custom-built, walk-in humidor, a wine cellar, wine tasting room, sitting room, and a fully equipped in-house beauty salon. (Because that’s what she wants, that’s why.) The card room is richly appointed, ready for rounds of poker late into the night, and includes a built-in HDTV, an intricately patterned cove ceiling, and recessed lighting. The 500+ bottle wine cellar is an oenophile’s delight and is completely climate and humidity controlled.

Gentleman’s Retreat

This richly appointed suite hearkens back to another era, with a billiard parlor, fireplace, library, and full wet bar for your drinks of choice. But even classics can be improved upon, in this case with a conversation starter that will never stop: The entrance to this private sanctuary includes the original doors from the Playboy Mansion in Chicago. The Gentleman’s Retreat also includes a video screen that descends from the ceiling for your viewing pleasure.

Fitness Studio

With the legendary MJ behind this fitness studio, you can imagine the caliber of its equipment. And you’d be right. All the equipment will stay with this extraordinary high-tech studio, including Jordan’s personal treadmills, elliptical trainers, Stairmasters, Precor bike, Cybex arc trainer and free weights to keep you in peak form.

Rare Air

In 2001, this full-size, regulation basketball court was built to Michael Jordan’s exacting specifications. It features specially cushioned hardwood flooring, adjustable backstops and baskets, and competition-quality, high-intensity lighting. The court also includes a custom sound system with speakers expressly tuned for the court space.

Adjacent to the basketball court are locker rooms and showers, as well as a circular lounge with comfortable leather chairs and a built-in HDTV. The lounge boasts a glass observation overlook where spectators can comfortably enjoy the action on the basketball court. The gymnasium opens to additional outdoor recreational areas like the tennis court and putting green. To ensure privacy from the main house, if desired, the facility has a separate entry and nearby parking area.

Indoor Meets Outdoor Living

The pool pavilion was built in 2009 and links the primary residence with the guest wing. The design is a stunner, including a retractable electric canopy that, with the touch of a button, can transform the enclosed room to an extraordinary indoor/outdoor experience geared for entertaining.

Fresh air and sunlight by day, cool breezes and twinkling stars by night. A built-in 110” rear-screen projection system with state-of-the-art surround sound system, and a full-sized bar further enhance the entertaining possibilities, while telescoping floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides can be fully opened to the outdoor pool and terrace.

Hospitality Chicago Style

Located directly off the pool pavilion, the three-bedroom guest wing offers all the amenities visitors could want. The gourmet kitchen includes Gaggenau and Sub-Zero appliances. Each guest bedroom features an en suite bathroom and built-in furnishings. Doors open from the curved wall of the living room directly onto the outdoor terrace, where lake breezes cool off the evening air. A flowing floor plan, understated neutral décor, and a separate entrance all create an unparalleled level of serenity, privacy, and coziness, whether guests are staying overnight or for an extended period of time.

About Highland Park

Located 23 miles north of Chicago with easy access to the city, Highland Park boasts some of the region’s most beautiful and exclusive homes. Here, residents enjoy small town comforts with big city advantages, with a strong emphasis on recreation and culture. The Chicago Symphony summers in Highland Park every year, and the city plays host to the well-known Ravinia Festival, an open air concert series during the summer. With lakefront parks and beaches on Lake Michigan, Highland Park has plenty of outdoor activities to keep residents busy, and its bustling downtown shopping district is a strong indicator of the vibrancy of this community.

Legend Point Features

7.39 acres
56,000 square feet
9 bedrooms – 15 full and 4 half baths
5 fireplaces
15 heated garage spaces
500+ bottle wine cellar
Home theater
Card room
Cigar room with walk-in humidor
Pool pavilion and outdoor kitchen with separate entrance
Basketball complex
State-of-the-art fitness center
Tennis court
Putting green
Full-service beauty salon
Guest wing with 3 en suite bedrooms and separate entrance
Living fence of 150 mature evergreens

Primary Residence

Foyer with Perlino Rosato Italian marble
2-story circular living room
6 bedrooms with en suite bathrooms
Casual dining room in light-filled rotunda
Formal dining room with museum-quality lighting
2-story family room
Den
His-and-hers offices
Study
Downstairs library with 2 Sub-Zero refrigerators
Laundry Room with Kenmore Elite washer and dryer
Gentleman’s Retreat with original doors from the Playboy Mansion
Card Room with cove ceiling
500+ bottle wine cellar with temperature and humidity control
Fully equipped beauty salon with Sub-Zero under-cabinet refrigerator

Master Suite

Lounge
Bedroom
His-and-hers closets
Dressing and make-up area
Steam shower
Jacuzzi tub
Sub-Zero refrigerator
Amana microwave

Gourmet Kitchen

Gaggenau freezer
Gaggenau refrigerator
Gaggenau wine cooler
Island ventilation
Gaggenau lift-door microwave oven
Gaggenau combination steam oven
Gaggenau coffee machine
Sub-Zero icemaker
2 Gaggenau dishwashers
Gaggenau double convection ovens

Upstairs Library

Sub-Zero under-cabinet refrigerator
Sub-Zero icemaker
Panasonic microwave
Miele dishwasher

Cigar Room with Walk-In Humidor

Sub-Zero under-cabinet refrigerator
Miele dishwasher
GE Microwave
2 Sub-Zero refrigerator drawers
Sub-Zero full-size freezer

Home Theater

Pool table
Super-sized video game screen
Plush, built-in leather lounge chairs
Built-in video game chairs with console

Fitness Studio

Treadmills
Elliptical trainers
Stairmasters
Precor bike
Cybex arc trainer
Free weights

Pool with Pavilion Retractable Roof and Walls

Sub-Zero refrigerator and freezer
Miele dishwasher
Panasonic microwave
2 Sub-Zero under-cabinet icemakers
Sub-Zero wine cooler
4 Sub-Zero refrigerator drawers

Basketball Complex

Regulation-size basketball court
Cushioned hardwood flooring
Adjustable backstops and baskets
Competition-quality, high-intensity lighting
Custom sound system
Locker rooms and showers
Circular lounge with leather seating
Built-in HDTV
Sub-Zero under-cabinet refrigerator

Guest Wing

3 bedrooms with en suite bathrooms
Living room
Outdoor terrace
Gourmet kitchen
Gaggenau gas cooktop
Gaggenau convection oven
Sub-Zero under-cabinet refrigerator
Gaggenau dishwasher
Panasonic microwave
Whirlpool washer and dryer

Outdoor Entertaining and Landscaping

Infinity pool and pavilion
Wisconsin limestone terrace
Tennis court
Outdoor fireplace and kitchen
Putting green
Stocked pond
Living fence of 150 evergreen trees
Gated entry
110 mature Colorado Spruces
Extensive outdoor lighting
15 heated garage spaces”

http://www.homedsgn.com/2013/11/30/legend-point/

Blaze Makoid Architecture have designed the Daniel’s Lane Residence in Sagaponack, New York.

“Our work focuses on creating total built environments that are a modern reflection of our clients while striving for a timeless product that remains fresh, exciting and inspiring.”

The residence Blaze Makoid Architecture created for a father with three children in Sagaponack on the Eastern Shore of Long Island was inspired by the iconic architect Norman Jaffe’s Perlbinder House(1970) and Tod Williams’ Tarlo House (1979) but with his and his firm’s signature of designing residences that have a quiet elegance that are uniquely suited to each client. As in all of Makoid’s work, there is a cohesiveness that unites the architecture with its interiors and the site. The lines between indoors and out blur as they become the greater part of the whole.

The client put his trust in Makoid’s ability to find the property and design a residence devoid of anything extraneous. His only mandate—he wanted a house that wasn’t ‘busy’.

Sited on a narrow, one-acre, oceanfront lot, the design of this house was one of the first projects in the Village of Sagaponack to be affected by the 2010 revision to FEMA flood elevations, requiring a first floor elevation of approximately 17 feet above sea level with a maximum height allowance of 40’. All construction was required to be located landward of the Coastal Erosion Hazard Line. The location within a high velocity (VE) wind zone added to the planning and structural challenges.

Makoid wanted the structure to appear simple and clean upon arrival. The two story travertine entry façade is highlighted with a single opening accentuated by a cantilevered afromosia stair landing that hovers off the ground. A ‘cut and fold’ in the wall plane bends to allow for one large glass opening, from which an over scaled wood aperture containing the main stair landing cantilevers. A layer of service spaces run parallel to the wall plane creating a threshold prior to reaching the horizontal expanse of the open plan living room, dining area and kitchen that stretches along the ocean side of the house. Fifteen-foot wide floor to ceiling glass sliding panels maximize the ocean view and create easy access to the patio and pool beyond.

The second floor is imagined as a travertine and glass ‘drawer’ floating above the glass floor below. Three identical children’s bedrooms run from west to east, setting a rhythm that is punctuated by a master bedroom with balcony that projects from the wall plane. It is clad in the same afromosia wood as the stair landing. The quiet elegance and clean lines of the house are accentuated by the materials that also include poured-in-place concrete floors, Calcutta marble cladding and afromosia millwork.