Concrete

Casa Bell-Lloc by architecture office Studio Saxe is a concrete house featuring expansive coastal views and a swimming pool that reaches toward the sea. Casa Bell-Lloc is located in Santa Teresa, a small town in Costa Rica’s Puntarenas Province that is known for its pristine beaches and great surfing. The full-time residence is tucked into

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Em-Estudio has built a holiday home on a steep hillside in Oaxaca, Mexico, from coloured concrete chosen to blend into the rocky mountainside. Named La Extraviada, the house overlooks Mermejita beach in Mazunte, a small seaside town on southern Mexico’s Pacific coast. Mexico City-based architecture firm Em-Estudio used polished cement mixed with brown pigments for La

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Portuguese architect Hugo Pereira has completed an angular concrete house in the town of Celorico de Basto, Portugal with glass-walled living spaces that look out onto courtyard gardens and a swimming pool. Located on a 12,000-square-metre plot in the Braga district, the house was designed by Pereira’s studio to make the most of the views

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Tropical plants surround a holiday home by Mexican firm CO-LAB Design Office, which has large openings to help keep the interior “cool and fresh throughout the year”. The property is bordered by a rustic wall made of stones that were excavated during construction. Located in the Mexican beach town of Tulum, Casa Areca was carefully

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