In harmony with its surroundings along the coast of Mexico, this vacation home embraces beauty as well as durability. Custom concrete walls matched to the color of local sand were poured in lifts to create a unique wavy texture that shifts as the light changes throughout the day. “As you approach the property,” notes Sharon Okada, Senior Project Ma...
Project name
Baja Beach House
Architecture firm
Walker Warner Architects
Location
Baja California Sur, Mexico
Photography
Douglas Friedman
Principal architect
Greg Warner
Design team
Senior Project Manager: Sharon Okada. Architectural Staff: Anja Hämäläinen
Collaborators
Cabo Development
Landscape
Lutsko Associates
Construction
Cabo Development
Typology
Residential › House
The first thing you see as you approach Casa Volta are three brick vaults floating amidst the dense vegetation of the Oaxacan coast. Perhaps a mirage caused by the profuse and humid heat of the area. Then, following a small path, one submerges in the vegetation and the vaults disappear.
Architecture firm
Ambrosi Etchegaray
Location
Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico
Photography
Jaime Navarro, Sergio López
Principal architect
Jorge Ambrosi, Gabriela Etchegaray
Design team
Ivo Martins, Santiago Bonilla
Typology
Residential › House
This pristine contemporary home is located on the west coast 90kms north of Cape Town bordered by a nature reserve adjoining the ocean. Sites like this don’t come much more spectacular. Taking full advantage of the ocean views and responding to the coastal dune context, Gavin Maddock describes it as ‘a glorious site’.
Project name
Pearl Bay Residence
Architecture firm
MADDOCK (Design Firm)
Location
Yzerfontein, Western Cape, South Africa
Principal architect
Gavin Maddock (Principle Designer)
Design team
Gavin Maddock, Gavin Dehn, Mark Mawdsley
Structural engineer
Hulme & Associates
Construction
McNeil Construction
Material
Concrete, Brick, Glass
Typology
Residential › House
Our new design and development for a private investor- a beach hotel resort & spa for nudist tourism in the southern beach of the Crete island, where architecture "peels its layers off" , revealing its pure, naked spaces. A radial Resort complex of independent 50sqm villas, with shade skin surfaces, pools, hanging restaurants, overlooking the infin...
Project name
Nudist Beach Resort & Spa, Crete
Architecture firm
Moshe Katz Architect
Location
Diskos Beach, South Crete Island
Tools used
AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 3D, Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Moshe Katz
Visualization
Moshe Katz Architect
Status
Preliminary design/ Permits
Typology
Hospitality › Hotel, Resort, Spa
Environmentally friendly structures, often known as green buildings, have a reduced carbon footprint compared to other traditional architectures. Green architects employ a wide range of strategies to lessen a building's reliance on external energy sources and boost its capacity to capture or create its own.
Photography
Josh Sorenson
The artificial island "Luampa Island" concept consists of 7 separate blocks, 4 low-rise, 2 middle-floor and 1 skyscraper. The blocks surround a circle that is constantly connected to each other in a unity. There is a shopping mall open to "Luampa Island", which is a mixed structure, a 5-star hotel with 160 rooms, office floors and residential block...
Project name
Luampa Island
Architecture firm
Hayri Atak Architectural Design Studio (Haads)
Tools used
Rhinoceros 3D, Blender, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Hayri Atak
Design team
Hayri Atak, Kaan Kılıçdağ, Büşra Köksal, Beyzanur Eyiusta, Baler Turgut
Typology
Commercial › Mixed-use development
The project: an innovative 200 apartment resort with open theatre/cinema, wine garden, light park, Zen Garden spa, commercial areas with restaurants and a private beach.
Project name
Sandstone Residences
Architecture firm
Moshe Katz Architect
Location
Softades Beach, Larnaca, Cyprus
Tools used
AutoCAD, Rhinoceros 3D, Autodesk 3ds Max, Adobe Photoshop
Principal architect
Moshe Katz Architect
Visualization
Moshe Katz Architect
Completion year
Estimation- 2026
Status
Preliminary design / permit planning
Typology
Residential › Apartments, Mixed-Use
One of Watershedd's latest schemes, Green Hedges is perched high on a rolling hillside overlooking Mawgan Porth beach in Cornwall. Featuring seven bedrooms, a large open plan living area and an independently accessed surfboard room and sauna, every element of the architectural and interior design has been composed with serene and sociable modern li...
Project name
Green Hedges
Architecture firm
Watershedd
Location
Mawgan Porth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
Photography
Evie Johnstone
Principal architect
Watershedd
Design team
Watershedd, Martin Perry Associates, Louise Holt Design, Millarf & Flo, Selma Klophaus
Interior design
Louise Holt Design
Civil engineer
Noble Construction
Structural engineer
Martin Perry Associates
Environmental & MEP
Noble Construction
Construction
Block cavity walls with stone cladding, steel framed with timber stud wall to the first floor
Material
Cornish Stone, Western Red Cedar Cladding, Zinc Roofing
Typology
Residential › House
