20,000-Square Foot Playhouse & Indoor Tennis Court!

20,000-Square Foot Playhouse & Indoor Tennis Court!

20,000-Square Foot Playhouse & Indoor Tennis Court!

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Only 22 miles outside of downtown Philadelphia, award winning international starchitect Rafael Viñoly, known the world over for his sleek contemporary building designs such as Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, put his design talents into a stunning private estate, Arbor Hill. Viñoly was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1944 to a film and theatre director father and a mathematician mother, so it’s not surprising that he chose the two influences for his own career. Demonstrating both architectural and business talent beyond his years, Viñoly formed his own architectural firm four years before attending the University of Buenos Aires and obtaining his degree in architecture. By the time he received his Master of Architecture from the School of Architecture and Urbanism in 1969, his firm was well on its way to becoming one of the largest architectural practices in South America. In 1978, he moved his young family to the United States where he served as a guest lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the next year settled in New York City and opened his firm, Rafael Viñoly Architects, in 1983. His contemporary flair for design can be seen in many of his award-winning buildings in the United States, South America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. When Rafael Viñoly accepted the commission to build the private estate residence Arbor Hill, the owners benefitted from the the boy-genius of architecture’s full career experience.

A stone enclave of 36,957 square feet on 29 acres, enter into the grand two-story entrance hall to a living room with a 30-foot ceiling. Continuing through, there are two dining rooms, library, gourmet eat-in-kitchen, pantry and family room, media room and offices that round out the main living spaces encircling a large stone courtyard. Upstairs, the master suite has his-and-her marble baths, separate dressing rooms, a sitting room, office, and a private tower retreat with 360-degree views of the estate. Throughout the house, a number of rooms have towering 15-foot and 30-foot ceiling heights. Guest rooms open out to private balconies. Over-the-top amenities include a 20,000-square-foot playhouse with indoor and outdoor tennis facility and basketball court, a 4,000-bottle wine cellar, an outdoor pool and pool house with shaded pergola, two stone farm houses, a three bedroom apartment, four-car garage and a pond. For more information.

Philadelphia’s Arbor Hill estate designed by Rafael Viñoly can be purchased with 70 acres for $25 million, or with 28.94 acres for $13.9 million.

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