Studio Saxe transforms Costa Rican lodge into The Gilded Iguana surf resort
Costa Rican architecture firm Studio Saxe has expanded an existing residence with hotel rooms and a pool to create a new resort in the beach town of Nosara. More
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Staggered pavilions form holiday resort on lush hill in Costa Rican surf town
Architecture firm Studio Saxe has stepped a series of pavilion-like guest rooms down a slope facing the Pacific Ocean, creating a hotel in a Costa Rican beach town. More
Studio Saxe creates contemporary villa in Costa Rican rainforest
San Jose-based architecture firm Studio Saxe has built a house in Costa Rica with an indoor-outdoor great room and cantilevered porches upstairs that overlook dense tropical foliage. More
Studio Saxe surrounds Costa Rican yoga retreat with jungle planting
San José-based practice Studio Saxe has designed this hotel in Costa Rica so that guests can perform yoga flows or rigorous boxing workouts in a studio surrounded by lush vegetation. More
Outdoor terrace divides two sides of zinc and concrete home in Costa Rica
Two volumes, one made from zinc and one from concrete, are separated by a glazed walkway and terrace in this Costa Rican house by MG Design Studio. More
Five of the best houses in Costa Rica on Dezeen
Costa Rica is slowly gaining recognition for its contemporary architecture, so here are five residential projects that demonstrate the small Central American country's particular style of tropical modernism. More
Grove of trees shades hillside Costa Rican house by Carazo Arquitectura
Costa Rica studio Carazo Arquitectura has completed a concrete residence that sprawls across the summit of a hill and steps down the slope into a canopy of vegetation. More
Steel and glass Costa Rican home by Cañas Arquitectos projects towards views of San Jose
Extensive glazing across this house in Costa Rica by local firm Cañas Arquitectos provides vistas of the verdant landscape by day and the twinkling city below at night. More
Movable wooden walls front Benjamin Garcia Saxe's Ocean Eye House
Wooden walls can be folded back from the front of this house on Costa Rica's coastline, opening up ocean views for the bedrooms and living spaces within (+ slideshow). More
Costa Rica residence by Obra Architects boasts indoor and outdoor rooms
A folded roof shelters a pathway between the indoor and outdoor rooms that form this holiday home in Costa Rica by Obra Architects (+ slideshow). More
Casa Flotanta by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture is raised above a forest
A series of pillars raise the interconnected rooms of this house by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture above the tree tops of the surrounding Costa Rican forest (+ slideshow). More