Honolulu Real Estate | Hawaii Loa Ridge View Home in The Pointe

613 Moaniala Street Honolulu, HI 96821

Hawaii Loa Ridge Honolulu Real Estate on Oahu
Listed at: $2,650,000 FS by Yvonne Jaramillo Ahearn, RB-20262
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Honolulu ADU Accessory Dwelling Units - Permits Now Available in Honolulu

Recently, several important changes were made to the housing and zoning laws in the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii regarding Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs).  Bill 20 and Bill 21, amend Chapter 21 of the Revised Ordinances and now allow new permits for ADUs on many Oahu properties.

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Ossipoff Home for Rent: Architect-Designed Oahu Rental Property with History

Ossipoff homes or any other architect designed homes for rent are desirable, yet hard to find in Honolulu.  So Home Shoppe Hawaii is pleased to be currently marketing for rent a 1961 Ossipoff designed home in Waialae Nui Ridge, above Kahala.   Referred to by the Honolulu Acadamy of the Arts as “Hawaii’s most important modern architect[i],” Ossipoff was well known for incorporating the topography into his design, and for creating seamless indoor/outdoor living spaces.  This stunning Oahu rental home is built against the hillside, set apart from neighbors (also Ossipoff designed homes) so as to take advantage of the breathtaking ocean, Diamond Head and city views.

Breathtaking views from this Ossipoff designed Oahu rental property.

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Peter Vincent Architects Design Luxury Homes in Kailua Oahu

Peter Vincent Architects has designed so many beautiful Kailua luxury homes that I just had to blog again on him.  His firm is one of the most highly acclaimed and talented in the industry.  

PLEASE NOTE: These homes are NOT currently for sale.

Tropical Patio by Honolulu Architect Peter Vincent Architects

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Honolulu Architects | Peter Vincent Architects

Peter Vincent is one of the preeminent architects in Hawaii.  His projects span from Texas to Japan, though many of his most beautiful luxury home projects are here on Oahu.  Recently, a Peter Vincent Oahu luxury home at 1600A Mokulua Drive, in Lanikai Kailua, sold for $8,000,000.  This Oahu luxury home was designed in 2007 and features classic details, while capturing spectacular ocean views and Mokulua Island views in Lanikai Kailua. 

Photo Courtesy of HICentral MLS. 1600A Mokulua Drive in Lanikai

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The Diamond Head Estate of Doris Duke | Honolulu Real Estate

A few days ago, I visited the home of Doris Duke (1912-1993) who was, at one time, one of the wealthiest women in the world. Doris Duke first visited Hawaii (along with various Muslim countries) on her honeymoon in 1935 and like many others, fell in love with our wonderful islands and decided to stay, at least seasonally.

Diamond Head Estate of Doris Duke - View

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Plantation Cottages & Plantation Style in Hawaii

From time to time, I will feature a guest blog like this one from Houzz, a fabulous interior design site. Enjoy!

Plantation Home Style Stars in ‘The Descendants’

Houzz- Kitchen Remodel, Bathroom Remodel and More »

BIA Hawaii Home Improvement Show at Blaisdell, January 25-27, 2013

If you are purchasing or already own Oahu real estate, chances are you may need to do some home improvements projects in the near future.  The Building Industry Association of Hawaii (BIA-Hawaii) Home Building & Remodeling Show 2013 might be a great place to look for ideas and inspiration, as well as to locate some great contractors for your Oahu real estate project. The Oahu home improvement show will be held at the Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall in Honolulu. The show starts Friday, January 25 from 5-9pm and goes through Saturday (10am to 9pm) and Sunday, January 27 (10am to 4pm).  Admission is $6.00 for one day, $8.00 for a 3-day pass, and $2.00 for Seniors, on Sunday. Kids 10 and under are FREE.  Coupons for $2.00 off a one day pass are in Hawaii Home & Remodeling Magazine. See you there!

Oahu Historic Homes Get Big Tax Breaks if Public Dedication Requirements are Met

Owners of historic homes in Honolulu and other areas of Oahu are fortunate, not only to own a piece of history, but to be eligible for a real property tax break, as well. The law in City & County of Honolulu (Oahu) currently allows owners of historic homes who apply for a Public Dedicaton Exemption to pay a flat $300 per year in property tax, often saving the homeowners thousands of dollars a year. The law that allowed reduction of the real property tax on these Honolulu historic homes was enacted in the 1980’s, under Mayor Frank Fasi, in an effort to enable owners of Oahu historic homes to have sufficient extra funds to help preserve and maintain the historic homes in the public interest. The public interest of this law is the ability of the public to view and appreciate such homes, memorializing history by providing a record of time, place and use, and to preserve the character and good repair of neighborhoods, protecting property values.

Historic Charles Dickey Designed Home on Oahu

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Architect Designed Honolulu Home with Japanese Design and Ocean Views

This gorgeous, one-of-a-kind contemporary Japanese-style home, currently for sale on Oahu, is in the little-known Ualakaa neighborhood in Honolulu. Designed by architect Richard Bass, and built in 2006, this home won the BIA Grand Award and was featured in Honolulu Magazine. This Honolulu home features 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms in 3,296 square feet of living area. Situated on a 10,076 square foot lot, this Honolulu ocean view home has a stunning panomrama from Diamond Head, across downtown Honolulu, and to Punchbowl. The home has a gourmet kitchen with top of th line appliances and a dramatic curing staricase. It’s spectacular garden was designed by Crane & Sekimizu. This home is listed at $3,200,000. For more photos click below. 

Qualified buyers interested in viewing this ocean view Honolulu home, designed by Honolulu architect Richard Bass, please contact Yvonne Jaramillo Ahearn at 808-721-8088.

Hawaii Modern Architecture | Experts at the Palace Series 2013

For people (like me) that love Hawaii architecture and design, this may be right up your alley.  The 27th Annual Experts at the Palace Lecture Series will be on the topic of  Hawai‘i Architectural Modernism  The free weekly lecture will run from January 31 – March 7, 2013 on Thursdays, from 12 noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Kanaina (Old Archives) Building on ‘Iolani Palace Grounds.

 

• January 31st: Louis Fung, AIA (Fung Associates, Inc.): “The Foundation of the Modern Movement in Hawai‘i: Modernism in American Architecture”  

• February 7th: Don Hibbard, Ph.D.:  “Evaluating Mid-Century Low-Rise Apartments in Hawai‘i”

• February 14th: Kiersten Faulkner, AICP (Historic Hawaii Foundation): “The Unique Challenges, Threats and Opportunities Facing Modern Historic Resources”

• February 21st: Glenn Mason, AIA (Mason Architects, Inc.): “Technical Innovation and the Emergence of New Building Materials in Mid-20th Century Architecture”

• February 28th:  (Fung Associates, Inc.): “The Range of Modern Architectural Resources in Hawai‘i, 1939-1979”

• March 7th: Angie Westfall, AIA (State Historic Preservation Division):  “Surveying Hawai‘i’s Mid-Century Subdivisions”

The first and last sessions look most interesting to me. I hope I can make at least some of them. Maybe see you there? 

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Most Expensive Luxury Home on Oahu --- Kailua Beachfront Estate

A Kailua beach home, which is the most expensive home that has been on the market on Oahu this year, was recently taken off the market. However, I understand that this Kailua beachfront home is still being sold and is available to show during this interim period of being temporarily withdrawn.

This luxury Kailua beach home was most recently listed for $29,000,000 and is located at 210 N Kalaheo in the Beachside neighborhood of Kailua. This is a beachfront estate property that stretches from North Kalaheo Avenue on the Mauka side to the beach on the Makai side.

This spectacular Kailua beach estate consists of nearly 11,000 sq ft on 1.5 acres of sandy beachfront property, on the turquoise waters of Kailua Bay. The Main House of this Kailua estate property has 5 bedrooms, 5 full baths, and 2 powder rooms. The Guest House on this fabulous Kailua beachfront property has 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and 1 powder room.

Take a look in more detail via this video produced by Honolulu Magazine from YouTube:

Please do not hesitate to contact me at 808-721-8088 if you are a qualified buyer and you would like to view this spectacular Kailua beachfront estate property.

~Aloha~

 SEE MORE: Most Expensive Home on Oahu Back on Market Kailua Beachfront

Mokulua Islands, Kailua, Oahu.

Vladimar Ossipoff Homes for Sale on Oahu - Val Ossipoff Hawaii Architect

Vladimir Ossipoff is Hawaii’s most iconic post-war architect. He is best known for his mid century-modernism blended with tropical influences. Ossipoff homes exhibit an understated style and creative use of open spaces. Ossipoff homes typically are designed with great consideration of basic principles of architecture. Ossipoff intelligently designed each project to fit and mold to it’s landscape. In particular Ossipoff architecture typically features well-ventilated spaces which allow cooling tradewinds to keep the homes comfortable and livable in Hawaii’s warm climate.

Vladimir Ossipoff was born in Russia in 1907. Ossipoff grew up in Japan and emigrated to the United States in 1923. Ossipoff graduated from the University of California - Berkeley and then moved to Hawaii, in 1931, where his 60 year architecture career began. Ossipoff worked as an architect with Theo H. Davies before going into going out on his own in 1935.

Ossipoff was quoted as saying “an architect has to be a bit of a sociologist, lawyer and psychologist. He has to know human nature.” Ossipoff homes were designed by adapting his architecture and other skills to each situation, and for who would occupy that space.

Ossipoff not only designed residential homes, but some of his most well known projects stand today as iconic Hawaiian architectural landmarks. Ossipoff designs have no single common characteristic which makes them readily identifiable and each can be extremely different. Each Ossipoff project was designed with creative attention to detail and with deference to the environment in which it was created.

Some prominent Ossipoff landmarks in Honolulu Hawaii are the IBM building, the Kakaako waterfront, Outrigger Canoe Club, the Kaimana waterfront and the Central Terminal of the Honolulu International Airport.

Vladimir Ossipoff designed many homes on the island of Oahu. Most of them are in Honolulu, but a few of them are in other areas in the island. Currently, there is a Vladimir Ossipoff designed home for sale on Lanikai Beach in Kailua.

 

 

 This home on beautiful Lanikai beach is priced at $5,750,000 and has now gone into escrow.

Here is another Vladimir Ossipoff designed home  currently for sale on Oahu at the price of …..$4,495,000

 

(All photos courtesy of HICentral MLS)

If you are looking for a Vladimir Ossipoff home for sale, a George Hogan home for sale, or perhaps an architect-designed home by Ossipoff, George Hogan, Charles Dickey … or other prominent and well-known Oahu architects, please contact me. Perhaps I can help.

Buying An Older or Historic Oahu Home in East Oahu

Mainland home buyers are often a bit surprised at the quality and condition of real estate when they come to Hawaii to look for real estate. This is particularly true when you are looking at older homes, in the more popular areas of East Oahu (Metropolitan Honolulu, Diamondhead, & Kailua, under about $1M or even up to $2M, if within a block or so of the beach or with excellent views.

Older homes, when beautifully remodeled, are very desirable and people will pay a premium for them. I love old homes, having lived in San Francisco and Portland, OR for many years. The charm of these is unmatchable. However, even original or partially-remodeled older homes, depending upon the location, will be very expensive by most mainland standards. Here, most of the home’s value will be in the land and location will be key.

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Charles Dickey Homes & Buildings - The California Years.

In 1905, Charles Dickey moved back from Honolulu, Oahu to California. This was a smart move, as the commissions in Hawaii were definitely slowing. He spent spent the next 19 years working and specializing in commercial construction (offices, schools, churches, etc.) throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly in the East Bay communities of Berkeley and Oakland, where he had his office.

Perhaps the most important and prominent building that Dickey (and his then partner, Walter D. Reed) designed, during his years in California, was the prolific Claremont Hotel in the Oakland hills. This still-operational hotel is a massive wood shingled Elizabethan style structure, with Tudor and Queen Anne details, and over 300 rooms. Charles Dickey and Walter Reed beat out three other formidable competing architecture firms for this contract in 1906, the same year as the great San Francisco earthquake and fire. The hotel was finished in 1915, in time for the Panama-Pacific Exhibition. Learning from the San Francisco earthquake, Dickey went on to build many more commerical office structures that were seen to be cutting edge for the time in terms of both technical stability and their fire resistance. Many of these California buildings by Charles Dickey are still standing.

Charles Dickey designed relatively few residential structures in this time period, but those homes were in the Arts & Crafts, Tudor, Colonial Revival and other styles typical of this time period and geography. He tended toward using wood shingles, port cocheres, lanais and some other details he favored in Honolulu. His most spectacular residential accomplishment at this time was another joint venture with Walter Reed: the enormous, 43-room, $250,000 Walter Hart estate, built in the Berkeley area in 1909.

Another interesting project was Charles Dickey’s contribution to the Panama-Pacific Exhibition (a beaux-arts extravaganza) where he completed the Hawaii Building, near the Lagoon of the present day Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco. Features of this structure included a low profile hipped roof, but that was the only feature that likened this building to earlier Hawaii work or anything in the Hawaiian territorial style. On the contrary, this stuccoed building had three arched doorways on the facade and doric pillasters in the interior. It is said to have represented the natural beauty of the island and its plants and animals well, however. It was strategically placed near the California building, to help ensure traffic, and was believed to have had a significant effect on Hawaii tourism over the coming years.

READ PART I - Charles Dickey’s Early Years in Hawaii - Dickey Designed Oahu Homes & Commercial Buildings

READ PART III - Charles Dickey’s Return to Hawaii - Charles Dickey Oahu Homes & Commerical Buildings

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Who is Hawaiian Architect Charles Dickey?

Charles W. Dickey was a prolific Honolulu architect, who designed both commercial and residential buildings. Charles Dickey’s multi-faceted career in architecture on Oahu and in Claifornia spanned over 5 decades from the 1890’s to the late 1940’s.

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Hawaii Legislature Overturns Special Requirements for Remodeling 50 Year Old Homes

Many Hawaii homeowners and realtors were dismayed last year when we heard about the new requirement for remodeling or tearing down properties 50 or more years old. Under this law, Act 228 of the 2008 Legislative Session, owners wishing to tear down or remodel such a structure, had to provide photographs of their property to the State Historic Preservation Division prior to being issued a building permit. There was no distinction made as to the condition or stuctural integrity of the building, or any other factor, other than age. On the East side of Oahu, this affected many, many people, as most homes here are at or rapidly approaching the age that would be covered under the law.

As you can imagine, many problems and criticisms arose from the law, including imposing an unfair burden on homeowners in getting and paying for these pictures and, of course, further delays in getting permits. This law was not meant to create a bottleneck, or even prevent destruction of historical properties, but rather just a way to preserve history through pictures. However, it made an already cumbersome permit process a bit more cumbersome.

Governor Lingle, has apparently agreed with the critics of Act 228, and effective April 14, 2009, repealed this law. She stated,” Act 228 further impeded the issuance of building permits at a time when we should be doing all we can to facilitate construction activity in order to stimulate the economy and create jobs.” Thank you, Governor Lingle, but I have to wonder — why do some of these laws get passed in the first place?

Law Affecting Remodel & Tear-Down of Historic & Older Homes

Many Hawaii homeowners and realtors were dismayed last year when we heard about the new requirement for remodeling or tearing down properties 50 or more years old. Under this law, Act 228 of the 2008 Legislative Session, owners wishing to tear down or remodel such a structure, had to provide photographs of their property to the State Historic Preservation Division prior to being issued a building permit. There was no distinction made as to the condition or stuctural integrity of the building, or any other factor, other than age. On the East side of Oahu, this affected many, many people, as most homes here are at or rapidly approaching the age that would be covered under the law.

As you can imagine, many problems and criticisms arose from the law, including imposing an unfair burden on homeowners in getting and paying for these pictures and, of course, further delays in getting permits. This law was not meant to create a bottleneck, or even prevent destruction of historical properties, but rather just a way to preserve history through pictures. However, it made an already cumbersome permit process a bit more cumbersome.

Governor Lingle, has apparently agreed with the critics of Act 228, and effective April 14, 2009, repealed this law. She stated,” Act 228 further impeded the issuance of building permits at a time when we should be doing all we can to facilitate construction activity in order to stimulate the economy and create jobs.” Thank you, Governor Lingle, but I have to wonder — why do some of these laws get passed in the first place?

Hawaiian Modern: the Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff

The Honolulu Academy of the Arts will soon be featuring an exhibition about prolific Hawaii architect Vladimir Ossipoff (1907-1998). The exhibition will start in Honolulu on November 29, 2007 and will continue with various events through January 27, 2008. After Honolulu, the exhibition will travel on to New Haven, Connecticut and Frankfurt, Germany.

The guest curator for this important architectural event is Dean Sakamoto. An exhibition catalogue, really a book, “Hawaii Modern,” has been published by Yale University Press and the Honolulu Academy of Arts for the occasion. Contributors to the catalogue include notable architects and educators, such as Stephen Little, Dean Sakamoto, Karla Britton,  Kenneth Frampton, Marc Treib, Don Hibbard, Spencer Leineweber, Victoria Sambunaris, and Jenny Chang.

Among notable projects of Vladimir (Val) Ossipoff are commercial buildings such as the Honolulu International Airport. He is also well known for his residential projects and his adept incorporation of natural elements of weather, wind and landscape into open living space. Many of his homes amd commercial buildings remain standing on Oahu and other Hawaiian islands. In Honolulu, Ossipoff homes for sale command a premium and are coveted by their owners. 

Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff

If you are looking to buy an Ossipoff home in Honolulu, or an Ossipoff designed home in Kailua, or any other areas of Oahu, please contact me at 808-721-8088. I would love to help you find your Ossipoff home for sale.

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