Dá Licença Boutique Hotel in Estremoz, Portugal.Set in an eco-reserve outside of the historic city of Estremoz, Portugal, Dá Licença Hotel owners Vitor Borges and Franck Laigneau were hunting for their own personal holiday home when they came across a grand property. Enlisting the...
Barefoot Luxury Villas in Cabo Verde by Polo Architects & Going East.Belgium-based Polo Architects and Going East embraced understated elegance for Barefoot Luxury Villas, a series of 30 serviced dwellings on the archipelago of Cabo Verde, off the coast of West Africa. The design team were collectively...
Parilio Hotel on Paros Island, Greece by Interior Design Laboratorium.Set on the Greek island of Paros, Parilio is the latest outpost of the Design Hotels group. Interior design studio Laboratorium were inspired by the stripped splendor of Cycladic design, the purity of island life and Mediterranean sunlight...
Can Lis: Jørn Utzon’s Family Summer House in Mallorca.On an island that has changed dramatically through commercialization and tourism over the course of the last decades, Jørn Utzon’s Can Lis embodies a stoic sense of permanence, appearing in total harmony with its environment; as if it...
Ayla Golf Academy & Clubhouse in Aqaba, Jordan by Oppenheim Architecture.The undulating sprayed concrete shell of Ayla golf club by Oppenheim Architecture emulates the rolling dunes and mountains of the surrounding Jordanian desert. The entire building is essentially made by hand, deepening the ties to the land...
Bosc d’en Pep Ferrer: House on Formentera Island, Spain by Marià Castelló Martínez.It’s a wonderful feeling when you encounter harmony between Mother Nature and the built environment. When architecture not only contemplates nature but intimately engages with it as a pivotal element of design. This quality is deeply...
Two Cork Houses in Palafrugell, Costa Brava by López Rivera Architects.Two houses rest upon a sloping site both completely immersed in the dense woodland of Palafrugell, Spain. Wrapped in cork panels, these stealthy structures mirror the stippled texture and mottled grey tones of surrounding slender pine and...
The Truffle in Costa da Morte, Spain by Ensamble Studio.You’d be forgiven for thinking this was natures way of providing the perfect man cave. Instead, it was very much man-made. And while it resembles the world’s most ideal hideaway, its inspiration was that of truffle, the legendary...
Freycinet Lodge Coastal Pavilions in Tasmania by Liminal Studio.Designed by Hobart-based Liminal Studio, these nine Coastal Pavilions are the newest accommodation offering at Freycinet Lodge. Located at the foothills of the striking Hazards Mountains in one of Tasmania’s oldest National Parks, the...
