John Gray High School Cayman Islands
Jestico + Whiles wins high school competition in the Cayman Islands. The practice has assembled a multi-national team from the UK, Canada, US and the Cayman Islands to compete for the project.
Costa Rica building design
Costa Rica architecture designs and architects
New Costa Rica architecture projects with building news and architectural images, plus architects background. Costa Rican building news from across this Central American country.
Major recent properties to visit include the Gardenia, Rohrmoser, San Jose, designed by Studio Saxe. Large planted terraces create costa rica’s first vertical garden building that blends nature within a city environment.
Studio Saxe decided to design and develop its first vertical sustainable building, proving that it is financially viable to create an architecture of value focused on quality of life through large terraces and planting, within the constraints of the local economy.
e-architect also feature Suitree Experience Hotel, Guanacaste, also by Studio Saxe. The clients required a distinct canopy-based guest experience.
The hotel was to provide expansive views of the horizon and mountains. The accommodation gives an immersive opportunity for guests in the area’s vibrant jungles.
Casa Akoya in Puntarenas, Costa Rica
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.
Oxígeno Shopping Mall in Heredia, Costa Rica
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
Casa Osa in Costa Rica, Caribbean House
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.
Costa Rica Treehouse Santa Teresa: New Home
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.
Costa Rica Developments: Building Designs
Costa Rica developments – info on best new buildings & architects – Costa Rica development information, Central American architecture, news + designs
Joya Villas in Santa Teresa, Costa Rica
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.
The Gilded Iguana Hotel Nosara, Costa Rica
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.
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.
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.”
