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From Dwell, August 22, 2015:

Inside the Modern Safe Room: How Homeowners Today Are Fortifying Their Houses Against Burglars, Terrorists, in addition to Hurricanes

If a family’s abode is their castle, every bit the proverb goes, roughly homeowners receive got begun to receive got that thought quite literally. Step into the heavily fortified public of security rooms—otherwise known every bit panic rooms—with iii designers working at the outer limits of architectural craft. 

Tom Gaffney won’t tell me where he is. We’re talking on the telephone in addition to I know he’s on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, but he won’t plough over away his exact location. Gaffney is on-site installing a security room—something most of us know every bit a "panic room"—but revealing the address, fifty-fifty the street, would defeat one-half the exercise of fortifying a abode inwards the start place. After all, if someone knows you lot have a panic room, they know there’s something you’re trying to cover or protect.

Gaffney runs a somebody security pattern theatre called Gaffco Ballistics, based out of a pocket-size town inwards key Vermont. Hailing originally from County Sligo, Ireland, Gaffney even thence speaks amongst a rolling brogue, chop-chop in addition to concisely. He is non inwards the trouble organisation to waste materials time. Gaffney explained to me that his entry into the acre came dorsum inwards 1986. At the time, he was doing function fortifying—or "hardening"—check-cashing facilities inwards roughly of New York City’s most trigger-happy neighborhoods. For the most part, this meant aught to a greater extent than than installing bullet-resistant glass, but it shortly graduated to edifice self-enclosed, inaccessible security rooms within the businesses. 

 Where alarms in addition to bulletproof drinking glass fail, steel-reinforced doors disguised every bit custom woodwork exercise beast strength to halt fifty-fifty the most determined burglar. Add high-security locks in addition to drill-resistant concrete, in addition to you lot receive got a high bar of protection. Roofs are peculiarly vulnerable, every bit they are oft the least-fortified business office of a residential structure. Gaffco Ballistics volition install saw- in addition to bullet-resistant Kevlar plates to thwart potential attackers.

The security room, of course, is past times no agency a modern invention—as University of Cambridge professor of classics Jerry Toner pointed out to me inwards an interview nigh burglary inwards the ancient world—you tin see archaeological prove of security rooms fifty-fifty inwards the volcanic ruins of ancient Pompeii. Indeed, urban fortification is all but synonymous amongst Western history. From castles on hills to concrete bunkers buried vi feet beneath the dorsum garden, protective architecture is non an anomaly; it is the rule. Perhaps just because of this, the evolution of contemporary panic rooms is a fascinating tale of pattern innovation, wealth, occasional paranoia, in addition to vicious necessity. It is a even of crime, self-protection, in addition to architectural extremes—and it’s almost for sure non 1 you’ve heard before. The start dominion of having a panic room is non to verbalise nigh having a panic room....

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And from Curbed, August 31, 2016:

For $17.5M, this WTF-worthy Atlanta abode is billed every bit ‘world’s safest’
The listing would supply the address, but in addition to then it would receive got to kill you lot

Atlanta’s most paranoid high-rollers in addition to sheiks receive got in all likelihood caught air current of this novel $17.5-million listing, which is alternately billed every bit a "modern fortress," "presidential compound," in addition to "one of the world’s safest homes."

With 8 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, in addition to 36,000 foursquare feet, this North Atlanta Fort Knox is chockfull of Scarface-grade security in addition to extravagance befitting Bruce Wayne.

The weirdly secretive listing photos present glimpses of architectural flourishes similar archways in addition to Ionic columns, doors amongst innumerable locks, geese, fine art gallery patrons, bowling balls, a shooting range, in addition to what looks similar even thence shots from the painting Predator. WTF moments abound.

Technically speaking, this identify is SAFE — a Strategically Armored in addition to Fortified Environment, designed past times global security proficient Al Corbi, per the listing. Hardly believable features include a cloak-and-dagger 30-car vault, total H2O in addition to ability supplies, in addition to iii kitchens that include catering....MORE

Just don't terminate upwardly similar Edmond Safra.

That large cupola appearing object on the roof is, I believe, the panic room which would brand me a fighting nervous inwards lite of Edmond Safra's snuff it inwards his panic room:

Mr. Safra's Belle Epoque Monaco Penthouse was flipped past times the Candy Bros. for an amount variously reported every bit $305-$323 Million.

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