James Gorst Architects
Corte Velho, Portugal
2004
A luxury development on a beautiful 150 hectare site on the river Guadiana in the Algarve. The project includes a sixty suite hotel in which each suite has its own swimming pool, thirty pool villas, sixty village houses and 140 detached villas. These villas will be designed by a list of Europe’s leading architects.
The hotel is designed without corridors. Instead the suites are arranged around a campo, like the piazza of a Mediterranean hill town, on which the various restaurants stand like the public buildings of the town, framing views of the landscape beyond. A thirty metre infinity pool juts out over the landscape.
The project seeks to set a new standard for development in the area through the combination of the best of contemporary architecture, the use of natural materials and sensitive landscaping.
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