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| The house a U.N. environmental ambassador built |
| 2010-04-26 |
| Carried over to Monday. AoS. And mind the warning on that pic ... What kind of U.N. environmental ambassador builds a 20,000 square-foot home with a six-car garage, an elevator and a lagoon? Why, that would be the Hub's favorite Pats fan, Gisele Bundchen! (Warning: not safe for work) And a paparazzo's sneak pics of Bundchen and hubby Tom Brady [stats]'s gargantuan new Brentwood, Calif., chateau has green activists seeing red. "How big a space do two people need?" asked Philip Dowds, a Massachusetts Sierra Club official and professional architect. "A 20,000 square-foot house - the resources that it takes to put it together and the land that it needs, this just can't happen anymore." According to photos taken by Los Angeles shooter Alec Byrne, who said he got a peek at the blueprints, the new West Coast lair of the Patriots [team stats]' star quarterback and his glam wife will feature amenities including: a wine bar and gallery a six-car garage a service kitchen and butler room a pool house and lagoon-shaped swimming pool and spa a recreation room with 19-foot ceiling. And the manse will have an elevator - even though that seems to contradict environmental advice Bundchen offers on her own Web site to "take the stairs." "In addition to exercising, you save the electric power of the elevators," she says on giselebundchen.com, which is currently festooned with references to Earth Day. It's not the first time Bundchen has taken flak for being less than fabulously energy efficient. Last year, shortly after being named to her U.N. post, the Herald's Inside Track revealed the supermodel enjoys piloting a private helicopter. Meanwhile, their new two-story Mediterranean-style home could end up costing the couple $21 million, according to estimates. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #8 I keep waiting for Brady's deal with Satan to come due. That's gonna be ugly... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-04-26 12:08 |
| #7 Not to mention contributing to the personal warming problem. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2010-04-26 12:07 |
| #6 Besoeker, you can't be bought off that easily by Giselle can you? She is part of the global warming problem. After all, she is contributing to the earthquake epidemic. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-04-26 11:56 |
| #5 But, hey, they shut their lights off for Earth Hour... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-04-26 11:00 |
| #4 Sustainability and environmental responsibility are for little people. |
| Posted by: Mike 2010-04-26 10:22 |
| #3 As far as I am concerned, Gisele can have any damn thing she wants! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-04-26 10:01 |
| #2 Is this one of the Al Gore cookie cutter row homes? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-04-26 09:56 |
| #1 but if they but carbon offsets everythings OK right? |
| Posted by: lord garth 2010-04-26 07:07 |
