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Take a look inside the 7-cabin superyacht with an underwater lounge that was just named best in class for interior and exterior design

• Superyacht Elandess won four awards at the annual Boat International Design & Innovation Awards in January, including best interior and exterior design.
• Elandess was the most decorated boat at the show : No other yacht won more than one award a piece.
• The custom-built yacht is owned by Travelex founder Lloyd Dorfman and features the second-ever sub-waterline lounge.

Elandess is the superyacht to watch in 2019.

The 244-foot yacht took home four awards at this year's Boat International Design & Innovation Awards . For its class size category, Elandess won Best Exterior Styling, Best Interior Design, Best General Arrangement & Deck Design, and Best Lifestyle Feature Design.

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Abeking & Rasmussen , a prestigious German shipyard, was contracted for naval architecture and building. Interior and exterior styling and design work on the boat was done by Harrison Eidsgaard .

Elandess is owned by billionaire Lloyd Dorfman, who commissioned the work from scratch with Abeking & Rasmussen. Dorfman is the founder of currency exchange company Travelex , and has a net worth of around $1.2 billion This is his third yacht, and his second with Abeking & Rasmussen . This superyacht replaces the previous Elandess — now called Elypsian — which sold for $55 million . Alongside his yachts, Dorfman also owns a $60 million jet .

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The state-of-the-art vessel was first spotted in summer 2018 in London. It made its first Atlantic crossing in the fall, where it was featured at the Ft. Lauderdale Boat Show .

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To accommodate Dorfman, his family, and any additional passengers, the custom-built yacht can house 14 guests across seven cabins . According to Boat International , one of the main requests was for the ship to function as a mobile second home, as opposed to just a mode of transportation. The second home has three decks, and the top features a pool, while interior space allows room for Dorfman's art collection.

As designer Harrison Eidsgaard told Yacht Harbour , "Walking through Elandess, no two spaces feel the same; each area has its own character creating drama and interest at every turn."

Despite the top deck's beautiful view, there's even more to be seen below the water level.

According to Official Bespoke , "There’s little question as to the best view on board, though. Elandess’s sub-waterline Neptune Lounge — only the second in existence — gives spectacular access to life above and below the waterline."

The windows in the lounge measure nearly 10 feet tall and 4 inches thick ; l ike other aspects of the boat, the idea was inspired by the previous Elandess' lounge.

Just prior to its awards competition, Boat International published an exclusive interview with Dorfman regarding the construction and reception of his new luxury yacht. Dorfman discussed how his family — including his many grandchildren — tested the ship this summer, noting, “You can’t just Google a formula for how to design a yacht for a certain number of people. You have to be involved."

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The award-winning yacht was designed by Harrison Eidsgaard and built by Abeking & Rasmussen .

ELANDESS was hand-drawn by her naval architects, affording the owner a cutting-edge design experience.

She was delivered in 2018 from their Bremen shipyard.

The impressive yacht features advanced contemporary designs and technology that sets her apart from other superyachts on the water.

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Harrison Eidsgaard designed the impressive interior of the ELANDESS yacht.

She is the perfect combination of light, art, and advanced technological features on the water.

The yacht has overnight accommodations for 14 guests rooms in 8 cabins, with crew accommodation for 24.

There is one master and six guest cabins designed to accommodate the owner’s family and various grandchildren.

The interior is designed to cater to four generations of the owner’s family simultaneously, with complimentary safety and usability features in the commercial areas, furniture, and configuration of the interior areas.

The yacht evokes an image of a contemporary museum with amenities and facilities to complement it.

Numerous design features make her a stand-apart yacht, including a spiraling central staircase, the location of the elevator near that staircase, and the artistic areas of the vessel.

There are plenty of dining areas on the yacht and a panoramic observation deck lounge on the upper deck.

The hand-drawn exterior of the ENLANDESS yacht was designed by Harrison Eidsgaard.

ELANDESS was built by Abeking & Rasmussen in Germany at their Bremen shipyard.

The outstanding yacht was delivered to the owner in 2018.

She has a grey steel hull that frames the craft’s windows perfectly.

The white superstructure is made of aluminum, and it features teak decks.

She cuts an impressive figure on the water as she slices through the waves.

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The ELANDESS yacht is a 74.5m yacht with a 12.8m beam and a 3.45m draft.

Thanks to her twin Caterpillar engines, the $115 million yacht has a top speed of 17 knots and a cruising speed of 14 knots.

She has a displacement of 2059 gross tons and a range of 5000 nautical miles.

The award-winning yacht has an annual running cost of $5 -$11 million.

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Project 6502 by abeking & rasmussen and eidsgaard design  has been christened elandess and is the successor of the former elandess (now m/y elysian) also built by a&r..

Harrison Eidsgaard is responsible for the exterior and the interior design of this 74.5m motor yacht with “Atlantic Bow”. A&R made the naval architecture work. ELANDESS has a classic layout with six guest cabins on the lower deck. Each guest cabin has a size of 22 sqm. The master suite has been placed on the main deck forward. The owner has a private area of 100 sqm.

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and an observation lounge on the upper deck. Furthermore, a pool with a length of 8 meters and a beam of 2.5m and a Nemo lounge below the waterline to enjoy great views in the environment around the yacht under the surface.

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ELANDESS met the A&R family member AVIVA in London. Freelance yacht photographer Tom van Oossanen captured the meeting on the Thames.

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Yacht ELANDESS Sweeps The Competition at the 2019 Boat International Design Awards

Yacht ELANDESS, the 245′ Abeking & Rasmussen Wins Four Prestigious Awards

Held annually, the Boat International Design & Innovation Awards acknowledges exceptional achievements in naval architecture, style, design, and engineering innovations in the yachting industry. Luxury yacht ELANDESS swept away the competition at the 2019 awards ceremony. This year she is taking home four superlative titles: Best Exterior Styling Motor Yachts 60m and Above , Best Interior Design Motor Yachts 500GT and Above , Best General Arrangement and Deck Design and Best Lifestyle Feature Design.

Designers of custom luxury yacht 74.5m ELANDESS went above and beyond when designing this yacht. Harrison Eidsgaard is credited for creating the distinctive interior and bold exterior of this elegant superyacht.

German company, Abeking and Ramussen , are responsible for creating the naval architecture to conform to yachting perfection. This steel and aluminum yacht is sure to stand-out in any port with her cutting-edge structured bow, dark hull, and sleek architecture.

Exceptional stand-out features of M/Y ELANDESS include her massive deck spaces and modern interior, and unique layout.

The expansive sundeck on this superyacht features an eight-meter swimming pool. The surrounding decks are carefully balanced with sun pads, dining tables and plenty of space for entertaining.

The ELANDESS Nemo Lounge is located below the waterline and includes portholes, offering a new perspective for her guests to fancy. An observation lounge above the upper deck salon was designed to offer stunning one-of-a-kind views.

The interior configuration was inspired with goals to be extremely modern, lounging areas ideal for a family, and entertaining amenities for social functions. The brief required an open plan of the interior spaces that were made flexible by designers to comply with the owner requests.

Super Yacht ELANDESS can accommodate up to fourteen guests across seven staterooms.

Floor to ceiling glass doors offer panoramic views throughout the yacht. ELANDESS has pushed the envelope for design and innovation.

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Abeking & Rasmussen delivers 74.5m superyacht Elandess

German Yard Abeking and Rasmussen has delivered its new 74.5 metre superyacht Elandess . First announced in the 2016 Global Order Book , this 2,065GT steel and aluminium yacht was styled inside and out by the London-based Harrison Eidsgaard design studio. Following her delivery, Elandess has been spotted making her way up the Thames to London on her maiden voyage.

Burgess Technical Services provided project management services and acted as the owner’s representatives. This is the owners’ second yacht with Abeking & Rasmussen but the marks first collaboration between the German yard and Harrison Eidsgaard.

Elandess has a distinctive exterior styling with an axe-bow, dark hull and low-slung superstructure. The yard has previously explained that the naval architecture was developed in-house with the so-called ‘Atlantic bow’ creating a fine entry point. The name of this feature hints at Elandess's ocean-crossing cruising range, but engine installations and fuel capacity is yet to be released.

The owner's brief called for modern and spacious yacht that would be equally suited for relaxed family time or entertaining. Much of the interior spaces are open plan and flexible by design to accommodate such needs. There are also a variety of interesting communal spaces, from the 8 x 2.5 metre  superyacht swimming pool  on the massive sun deck to the Nemo Lounge below the waterline and an observation lounge on the upper deck.

Guest accommodation is split across six staterooms, including an  owner’s cabin  on the main deck. The interior fitting was carried out in collaboration with Rodiek, who previously worked with the boatbuilder on the 60 metre  Kaiser , which hit the water in 2011. It is believed Elandess' name is inspired by the first initials of her two owners.

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• Name Elandess
• Model Custom
• Hull NB 6502
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• Naval Architect Abeking & Rasmussen
• Exterior Designer Eidsgaard Design
• Interior Designer Eidsgaard Design
• Length Overall 74.5m
• Length at Waterline -
• Draft (min) -
• Draft (max) -
• Gross Tonnage 2065
• Cabins Total 7
• Hull Configuration Displacement
• Hull Material -
• Superstructure -
• Deck Material -
• Fuel Type Diesel
• Manufacturer Caterpillar
• Model 3516B
• Power 1870 hp
• Total Power 1870 hp
• Propulsion -
• Max Speed 17 Kn
• Cruising Speed 14 Kn
• Fuel Capacity -
• Water Capacity -
• Generator -
• Stabilizers -
• Thrusters -
• Amenities -
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Abeking & Rasmussen launch brand new 75m superyacht ELANDESS

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By Oliver Pearson   8 May 2018

Set to be delivered this summer, the 75m/244ft motor yacht ELANDESS was officially launched by Abeking & Rasmussen in Lemwerder on Monday.

Looking spectacular ahead of her upcoming sea trials, ELANDESS shimmered in the sunshine outside of the iconic German shipyard as she entered the water for the first time yesterday afternoon.

Styled by Harrison Eidsgaard of London, the exterior lines of superyacht ELANDESS are sharply rounded off by her impressive ‘Atlantic’ bow. Unlike the midnight navy hull of 60m/197ft motor yacht ELYSIAN , the predecessor to ELANDESS, the hull of the new superyacht is a dark grey that contrasts beautifully with her white superstructure.

As the video below reveals, the motor yacht is defined by her sleekness, and her generous proportions will undoubtedly provide her owner with a world of possibilities when cruising and at-anchor.

Whilst there are currently no published images of the interior, it has been confirmed that she features a spacious Nemo Lounge beneath the waterline, a vast sundeck, and a contemporary interior design which was also carried out by Eidsgaard.

The arrangement around the social spaces has been reported as being open plan, with a flexibility which will allow her owner and his guests to enjoy the yacht in a variety of ways around her cruising grounds.

When it comes to accommodating guests, ELANDESS has a large master cabin on the main deck as well as five additional cabins to sleep up to 14 guests at any one time.

The latest in line of superyachts for an experienced owner, ELANDESS is unquestionably a refined masterpiece

Reportedly, the owner’s brief for ELANDESS was for the superyacht to be capable of entertaining as well as serving as a peaceful retreat for unwinding on the ocean.

This ambition seems to have been nicely satisfied with the 8 X 2.5 metre sundeck swimming pool and the shaded alfresco dining sections allowing those on board to divide their time between relaxing and socialising.

Having earned an enviable reputation for building superyachts of this size, Abeking & Rasmussen earned a number of awards for the 73m/238ft expedition yacht CLOUDBREAK which was delivered to extreme fanfare last year.

Whilst M/Y ELANDESS is not expected to be available for charter, be sure to view and compare all Abeking & Rasmussen yachts for charter .

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Moscow city hall, moscow post office and court house.

• Location: Moscow Idaho Regional Essays: Idaho Latah County Architect: James Knox Taylor James Knox Taylor Types: post offices courthouses art galleries (buildings) city halls Styles: Renaissance Revival Materials: brick (clay material) architectural terracotta cast-in-place concrete

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Located one block off of Main Street, City Hall is a powerful civic statement at the heart of downtown Moscow. Designed by James Knox Taylor, Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury, this Renaissance Revival building served as Moscow’s post office for sixty-three years. Few other Idaho buildings in the early twentieth century cost as much or had as competent an architect. The building became the Moscow City Hall after a period of nearly twenty years of discussion and debate.

What is today the Moscow City Hall was built during the Progressive Era, when the federal government was expanding the civic infrastructure to meet the needs of a rapidly growing country. Taylor, a highly regarded classicist, spent fifteen years as supervising architect of the U.S. Treasury, overseeing the design and construction of more than 800 federal buildings, including this one. This handsome, three-story structure is built of brick, since stone was not readily available in the Moscow area. Here, the red brick is trimmed in ivory terra-cotta. Ground-floor windows are tall and round arched and the central panel of each is made up of double-hung, eight-over-eight sashes. These are flanked with four-pane sidelights and topped by graceful fan windows for a Palladian effect. Second-story windows are six-over-six rectangles, with accented corners and keystones of terra-cotta. The third story is shortened, set off by a terra-cotta course decorated with round discs. The small, third-story windows are shaded by a wide classical cornice with a course of large dentils. The original roof is metal seamed and hipped. The space below the cornice and between the third story windows is richly decorated with terra-cotta panels and patterned brickwork. A Scottish mason named Howard Buchanan was paid double wages to come to Moscow to execute the brickwork. Apparently, Buchanan was so particular about brick selection and laying that he nearly bankrupted the building’s contractor.

The main entrance is in the central bay of a five-bay facade, and is reached by a flight of ten steps. The fan window above the entrance is repeated over the four windows on this story. The main entry originally featured a revolving door that has since been removed. The south end of the building has a similar doorway in a three-bay front. The raised basement is marked by grill-covered openings below the first-floor windows. This public building is one of only five buildings in downtown Moscow that rise to the height of three stories or more, all of which were built by 1912.

In 1973 a new post office building was under construction and the fate of the old post office and courthouse was hotly debated. Local civic activists began a fervent dialogue with city officials and the Department of the Interior to identify possible uses for the stately building. The City of Moscow eventually purchased the building and by 1981 it had been partially refurbished for use as the Moscow Community Center. During the next decade further discussions led to the complete renovation of the building and its conversion to the Moscow City Hall.

The interior of what remains Moscow’s most handsome and sophisticated building has been fully restored. The old courtroom on the second floor, with its finely detailed oak paneling, was turned into chambers for the city council. The lobbies have been turned into a public gallery known as the Third Street Gallery. Only occasionally have historic buildings changed hands and uses in such satisfying ways.

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Moscow's High Rise Bohemia: The International Business District With No Business

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• Published on March 17, 2015

The Moscow International Business Center (Also known as Moskva-City ) was meant to be Russia ’s ticket into the Western world. First conceived in 1992, the district at the edge of Moscow’s city center is intended to contain up to 300,000 inhabitants, employees and visitors at any given moment and, when completed, will house over 4 million square meters of prime retail, hotel and office space to create what the Russian government desired most from this project: an enormous financial district that could dwarf London’s Canary Wharf and challenge Manhattan . Twenty three years later though, Moscow-based real estate company Blackwood estimates that as much as 45% of this new space is entirely vacant and rents have plummeted far below the average for the rest of Moscow. The only press Moskva-City is attracting is for tenants like the High Level Hostel , a hostel catering to backpackers and other asset-poor tourists on the 43rd floor of the Imperia Tower , with prices starting at $25.50 for a bed in a six-person room. This is not the glittering world of western high finance that was envisioned back in the post-Soviet 90s; but what has it become instead?

As one might expect from a project of this sheer ambition, Moskva-City has a troubled past. The economic crash in 2008 hit Russia hard enough to evict the previous Mayor of Moscow , Yuri Luzhkov, who had been a cheerleader for the district, and replace him with the considerably more austere Sergei Sobyanin, who famously declared that the whole idea was an “urban planning mistake.” But as recently as 2013, the Wall Street Journal was triumphantly claiming that Moskva-City had risen from the dead, citing 80% occupancy rates and glowing quotes from industry insiders claiming that Moskva-City was the "place to be." Driven by record highs in oil prices, Moscow looked poised to become the next Dubai .

Instead, Moscow is now in the grip of an economic winter prompted by western sanctions and drops in the price of oil. The large financial groupings that Moskva-City was meant to shelter have been warned off by their inability to issue credit to international markets, for example - but Moskva-City isn’t just an Empire State Building left empty by the Great Depression.

A fundamental problem that is holding Moskva back compared to the rest of Moscow is the simple fact that currently, getting to Moskva-City is nigh-on impossible at peak hours. Moscow has long been plagued with transport problems, ever since the government failed to match the dramatic expansion of the city with a dramatic expansion of the transport system after the Second World War. Despite being only 2.5 miles from the Kremlin , Moskva-City is only just inside the ring road that bounds the city center and which acts as the only real transport link to it (and as a result, is clogged by construction vehicles.) A railway and metro hub has been finished, but so far only runs a one-stop shuttle service to the closest Metro station that is actually integrated with the rest of Moscow Metro. The isolation of the outer districts is a large, negative part of the Moscow psyche, and it’s not surprising that this is driving away the globetrotting financial elite this project was meant to attract.

The project is managed by architectural practice No.6, which is a constituent part of the large Moscow based practice Mosproject-2 , which is itself a public corporation headed up by Mikhail Vasilyevich Posokhin, who is apparently the “People’s Architect of Russia.” Despite all this state involvement, the project has still managed to become bogged down in bureaucratic infighting - each lot is managed and developed individually, which has led to developers competing for occupants by slashing rates.

Much has been written about the way modern financial districts and towers that inhabit them can be unwelcoming, forbidding or even hostile by design, but the skyscrapers of Moskva-City seem even less friendly than usual. The site - a former stone quarry, chosen out of necessity as the only place in the city center where a new district could be plausibly constructed - is isolated both physically and visually, leaving the cluster a stark anomaly on the city skyline. Even the names seem more imposing than optimistic now: Imperia, City of Capitals , Steel Peak.

The Mercury City Tower , so far the tallest completed building on the site, is officially “a strong reference to Russian constructivism, [which] gives the tower a strong vertical thrust similar to the one found in New York's Chrysler building .” It would be easy to criticize the Mercury City Tower for picking ‘inspirations’ that are so totally opposed to each other - The Chrysler building the defining emblem of American pre-crash confidence and Constructivism created with the express purpose (especially architecturally) of extending the Bolshevik revolution into a social revolution - but the way they smash those two inspirations together is almost beautifully ironic.

Even though the High Level Hostel is less an asset to a financial district than it is a PR problem, it’s been a huge success since opening in September, already ranked 27th out of 766 hostels in Moscow by TripAdvisor. According to the management agency for Moskva-City , 58% of the new occupant signings this year have been non-financial, including a number of small to medium size businesses. Other areas of office space have been occupied by a restaurant and a culinary school, while another space has been redeveloped into a 6,000 seat theater.

While Moskva-City is failing to be a financial district that could take on the world, it’s inadvertently becoming a humanized space catering to the very groups that the Russian economic miracle left behind. Taking advantage of rents lower than the rest of Moscow , the world class facilities and the sheer desperation of the developers, the humanization of Moskva-City could well create the world’s first high-rise bohemia.

Of course, these are not spaces designed for a community, or even for people: these are spaces designed for money, and there’s little scope for changing something that seems so baked into the design of Moskva-City . The High Level Hostel is trading off of the irony of being a hostel in a banking tower, but it’s perfectly possible that at some point people will no longer find this joke funny (especially in a building that seems hostile to the very idea of humor). The isolation of Moskva, even though it allowed this community to spring up in the first place, is just as detrimental to a humanized district as it is to a financial one: even bohemians need to move around the city, or the district risks becoming a black-spot instead of a hot-spot.

Moskva-City’s isolation won’t last forever. The end of construction will open the roads up to traffic, and plans to properly integrate the spur lines of the Metro in this area into the wider system are well under way. The integration of the district will inevitably push up rents, and the Russian economy will eventually boom once again. When that happens, Moskva-City is prime territory to be reconquered by the giants of international finance, and it seems unlikely that the municipal or national governments would want to step in to protect this accidental district. For now, though, the towers capture perfectly this moment of Russia ’s schizophrenic understanding of its place in the world.

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