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Major recent properties to visit include the Gardenia, Rohrmoser, San Jose, designed by award-winning architects Studio Saxe. Large planted terraces create costa rica’s first vertical garden building that blends nature within a city environment.
Studio Saxe design and develop its first vertical sustainable building, in Costa Rica, proving it is viable to create an architecture of value focused on quality of life through large terraces and planting
Studio Saxe has created a strategy of aggregation network of triangled pergolas that can grow or contract depending on the necessity of the client throughout the Caribbean Courtyard Villa in Costa Rica
Santa Teresa beach houses, Puntarenas, Costa Rica design by Studio Saxe architects: tropical oasis with teak roof and screens blends inside & outside boundaries connecting people to nature
Studio Saxe designed Tres Amores Residence, a family home perched on hilltops of town of Nosara, Costa Rica, that blends and hides within its natural surroundings
The Sail House project, design by David Hertz Architects: named for nautical-inspired tensile roofs, which are a contextual response to the Grenadines’ sailing culture
In Costa Rica there is a hidden small resort Art Villas, designed by Formafata, on the jungle hill above the beach Playa Hermosa: 3 unique villas and 1 multifunctional pavilion
Studio Saxe designed Atrium House is poised elegantly on a hilltop overlooking the Pacific Ocean on one side and amazing mountain views on the other.
Studio Saxe designed Courtyard House creating experiences around architectural designs that harness the power of the environment.
Studio Saxe designed this stunning wing-like roofline houses a dramatic white villa in the Costa Rica jungle, a villa on the hill tops of Santiago in Santa Teresa.
Studio Saxe designed an extension to the Gilded Iguana Hotel in the town of Nosara, The Athletic Center was created as a small village amongst the trees that creates a public space integrating locals with visitors.
Studio Saxe designed Casa Akoya in Puntarenas amongst white sand beaches and coconut groves: this beach home was conceived to give its inhabitants a connection to the sand and water where it belongs.
JERDE celebrated the grand opening of Oxígeno Shopping Mall, a 145,000 square meter retail and entertainment destination with a distinctive rooftop park – one of the world’s largest – in San Francisco de Heredia, Costa Rica
Designed by Obra Architects, Casa Osa is a vacation retreat for an American doctor and family on the Osa Peninsula. Located on 98 hectares of virgin rainforest with views east and west, the house occupies a small hill formerly mango farm, avoiding need to clear trees.
Designed by Olson Kundig the Costa Rica Treehouse has been created to operate passively, the home is intended to breathe and remain open to the elements in this temperate semi-tropic environment.
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Set in the rainforest of Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, two modern homes, designed by Studio Saxe, project out of the landscape and are defined by a series of steel frames that that bring the best modern methods of construction to a tropical location.
Studio Saxe was commissioned to expand and rethink the entire Gilded Iguana Hotel as a destination that addresses modern comforts and adapts to the new wave of travelers coming to the area whilst preserving the rich historical importance of the location.