Luxury Portfolio Magazine - Spring 2025, Making connections
This issue of Luxury Portfolio magazine is all about making connections, whether with our surroundings, our communities or the wider world. While perusing these pages, you are invited to slow down a bit and think about the ties that you have — or want to strengthen.
A connection that's often missing in today's world is one with nature. We'll show you a few of the ways it's being revived. Living buildings - skyscrapers that grow their own ecosystems - are a perfect example of how the urban and the wild can combine to stunning, and environmentally friendly, effect. Luxury stays are celebrating their natural settings to the delight of guests. And considered garden design creates spectacular spaces in which to surround yourself with greenery at home.
Castello Guidini: an evocative encounter between past & present
Barbengo, Lake Lugano, Switzerland
Price: CHF 9,000,000
Shots of the time conjure up evocative images, with "the tower covered in giant ivy. In all these photographs, my great-grandfather is always present," says Arch. Alessandro Guidini, great-grandson of the former owner, in a 2022 interview. The Guidini Castle, now for sale in Lugano-Barbengo, boasts a fascinating history intertwined with the vicissitudes of the noblemen who owned it. Originally built as a defensive structure, it was later transformed into a comfortable and luxurious residence.
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