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Some environmentally friendly Fifth Avenue Tweet @ townhouse in her native Scotland. designed by architect of its fabulous features flat has caught the 38-year-old amiranews The Ultimo lingerie boss splashed Ab Rogers, below, is for include a circular bed that Hollywood A-lister’s eye. out £780,700 on the duplex in an sale. rotates 360 degrees, a On the market at £8 million, the upmarket area of Glasgow after her The director of interior fibreglass rainbow-themed property would be fittingly split from husband Michael, 46. design at the Royal College staircase and a trap door, sumptuous for the Great Gatsby The five-bedroom marital home — of Art and son of revealing a slide that actor, with its three large bedrooms, named Telperion after a tree in The starchitect Lord Rogers connects a bedroom with marble bathrooms, plus a spacious Lord of the Rings — in the Glasgow describes the four- the living room. dressing room and a library. suburb of Thorntonhall, is for sale bedroom Rainbow House Even the floors are The 4,300sq ft home, which is split through Savills for £1.5 million, amazing, with illustrations across two floors, has the added including its luxurious fixtures and by artist Richard Woods. attraction of top-notch security fittings. Michelle, 42, reportedly tried It is listed at £4 million features, including a 24-hour porter to buy her husband’s share but he said with Domus Nova. and key-locked lift. DiCaprio has it was against a previous agreement. reportedly been looking for a O Visit homesand new home all year. The slick O Visit homesandproperty.co. property.co.uk/rainbow for contemporary apartment uk/telperion GETTY IMAGES more pictures and details might just be to his taste. Always party time at RiRi’s É RIHANNA wants to give her new £13.6 million Barbados home, right, the London look. The Diamonds singer, 25, is creating a private nightclub there modelled on Piccadilly celebrity haunt, Dstrkt. She is said to be spending £6.18 million on a makeover to include replicating the club’s REID REBECCA futuristic bling lighting, oversize sofas, chrome furniture and bar clad in rare stone. RiRi certainly REX FEATURES knows how to party in style. O Where to buy a home in Barbados: see Page 8 4 WEDNESDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2013 EVENING STANDARD Homes & Property New homes homesandproperty.co.uk with Population boom means housing Nine million people are set to call the capital home by 2019. David Spittles reports on the race to provide the 400,000 new homes and transport upgrades that will be needed ONDON’S population jumped to solve the commuter crush. They are by more than 100,000 last looking beyond Crossrail — the east- year to a new postwar high, west train link arriving in 2017 — to find and at the current rate of efficient ways to integrate rail and Tube increase the capital will grow lines in the suburbs and outer London Lby the equivalent of an extra borough areas. And new transport routes equal every three years, hitting a total of nine new homes. million people by 2019, according to Transport for London is set to gain the latest data from the Office for more control of suburban commuter National Statistics. routes currently run by rail operators. As a result the city needs a more In 2015 TfL will take over the West extensive transport network for Anglia rail franchise. This route runs commuters, says London Mayor Boris from Liverpool Street through east Johnson, and 400,000 new homes London to Stansted airport and Cam- over the next 10 years. bridge, taking in Hertfordshire com- The popular suburbs are where the muter towns such as Bishop’s Stortford population is predicted to grow.