Mint Resort in Santa Theresa, Costa Rica
Stepping down a steep hillside and overlooking the ocean, Mint Santa Theresa, designed by Studio Saxe, is a new hotel that blends a European design aesthetic with Costa Rican craftsmanship.
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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.
Nalu Resort in Costa Rica, Caribbean Coast Hotel
Architects: Studio Saxe. Nosara has become a destination for visitors from around the world for health, wellness and surfing and so the owners of Hotel Nalu-Nosara, Nomel and Mariya Libid, wanted a design that reflects the attitude of their guests.
Smith Residence in Limon, Costa Rica
Design: Benjamin Garcia Saxe, architects – Caribbean coast architecture uses simple ideas for using rain water, temperature control through cross ventilation, and large overhangs; an aesthetic based on traditional tropical architecture of the Caribbean
Casa Flotanta in Puntarenas, Costa Rica Home
Design: Benjamin Garcia Saxe. The clients wanted to create their family home on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica and found an incredible site overlooking the ocean for this vastly sympathetic creation.
Ocean Eye in Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Architect: Benjamin Garcia Saxe. The client bought a beautiful plot of land with two breath-taking views: towards the ocean and into the jungle. Architect Benjamin Garcia Saxe decided to rest the house against the back of the steep hill of the site in order to stabilize the soil and protect the property from falling debris.
Villa Areopagus: Costa Rica Residence
Design: PARAVANT ARCHITECTS with SAAR Arquitectura. This building was planned as a retirement residence for a client from Hollywood, California: the design focused on creating a home that is harmoniously integrated into the landscape of the surrounding Costa Rican mountains.
CasaAltamira Costa Rican House
The architects conceive architecture as a language across which properties can express themselves such as: harmony, creativity, happiness, beauty, poetry, complexity, magic, provocation and culture.
Containers of Hope: Costa Rica Home
Gabriela Calvo and Marco Peralta dreamed of living in their fantastic property 20 minutes outside of the city of San Jose, Costa Rica; where they could be with their horses and enjoy the natural landscape.
Costa Rican Home: Iseami House
The concept by this architecture studio aims to provide education and awareness of its occupants and its community, that will be capable to learn about sustainable living through its spatial living.
Costa Rican Home: A Forest for a Moon Dazzler
“Inspired by her routine I have given her an internal protected forest of bamboo. At night the cone-like surface of her new home opens to the moon and reminds her that it is me who is holding it in space as she goes calmly to sleep.”
Costa Rica Architecture: Casa Kike, Cahuita House
Gianni Botsford Architects (GBA) is bringing new ‘architectural life’ to the Caribbean by reappraising the architectural heritage of the region and reviving indigenous techniques.