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"On the Market: June 2011\nExtraordinary homes for sale around the world\nPedigree: Designer Joe D'Urso collaborated with architect James Merrell to create this dramatic oceanfront home on Further Lane. Its geometric volumes fill with natural light from skylights and double-height windows, the latter of which frame views of the water and dunes.\n\nProperty Values: Landscape architect Edmund D. Hollander received an AIA award for the contemporary-style gardens on the 3.5-acre grounds, which also feature a tennis court, striking infinity pool, and private boardwalk leading to the beach.\n\nTalking Point: Your very own observatory, complete with a retractable roof for stargazing on balmy nights.\n\nContact: Corcoran, 631-283-7300, ext. 211; corcoran.com\nPedigree: Built as a family memorial in 1909, this Romanesque church in Greater London has been transformed into a novel home in which vaulted ceilings, brick walls, and stone arches provide a handsome backdrop to modern rooms (including an indoor pool with a Jacuzzi and steam room). The building, which was never consecrated, served as an antiaircraft command center during World War II and later, due to its amazing acoustics, was used as a recording studio.\n\nProperty Values: Almost one acre neighboring Richmond Park, which is easily surveyed from the 118-foot tower.\n\nTalking Point: The soaring great room has hosted badminton games on occasion.\n\nContact: Savills, 011-44-20-8614-9100; savills.co.uk\nPedigree:In 2005 Swiss decorator Romain Michel-M\u00E9ni\u00E8re built this minimalist single-story house, christened Villa Agama, some four miles outside the city center. The interiors incorporate traditional Moroccan design details\u2014from adobe walls to ceilings constructed of local palm trunks\u2014as well as modern luxuries, such as a double-sided fireplace, spalike sunken tub, and central air-conditioning.\n\nProperty Values: Nearly four acres of landscaped gardens planted with rosebushes and palm trees, plus covered terraces, a pool, and a guesthouse.\n\nTalking Point: Antique Berber doors lead to serene, modern rooms.\n\nContact: Emile Garcin Propri\u00E9t\u00E9s, 011-33-1-40-73-84-48; emilegarcin.com\n\nSTATS\n\n 3 bedrooms\n\n 3 baths\n\n 4,300 sq. ft.\n\n $2.5 million\nPedigree: This space-age home was devised in 1968 by visionary architect John Lautner for interior designer Arthur Elrod\u2014an adventurous aesthete if ever there was one, judging from the structure's extraterrestrial dome and the exposed bedrock inside. Today the residence ranks among the most unforgettable built in the 20th century, thanks in part to its appearance in the classic 1971 James Bond thriller, Diamonds Are Forever.\n\nProperty Values:6.5 acres, with a pool and two-bedroom guesthouse.\n\nTalking Point: Sliding curved-glass curtain walls open the circular living room to the desert expanse beyond.\n\nContact: Expoint Realty, 760-748-2188; expointrealty.com\nPedigree:To merge indoors and out at this eco-friendly compound (AD, May 2009), architecture firm Andersson-Wise distilled the public and private quarters into a master lair, guesthouse, and communal lodge.\n\nProperty Values:A 1930s cabin also occupies the 15-acre plot, which includes 700 feet of shoreline on Flathead Lake.\n\nTalking Point: At the turn of a wheel, a pulley lowers a floor-to-ceiling window in the main dining room while raising a counterbalanced deck outside.\n\nContact: Trails West, 406-837-7050; trailswestrealestate.com\nPedigree:Sybarites would do well to drop anchor in the protected bays of this untouched private isle, among the most expensive currently on the market.\n\nProperty Values:Miles of beaches give way to coral-encrusted undersea canyons.\n\nTalking Point:A quartz-filled cave accessible via underwater passage.\n\nContact: Private Islands Inc., 647-477-5581; privateislandsonline.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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