Tazeboudjt, Algeria · in design development
A retreat of boutique hotel villas on a headland above the Mediterranean, designed for a developer as a single destination rather than a row of rooms. The scheme works with the fall of the land: villas step down the slope so each keeps its own view and its own quiet, gathered around a colonnaded court, a long pool and terraces that reach the shoreline and a private jetty. The architecture is deliberately classical — carved stone, arched glazing, a glazed dome over the stair hall — and the interiors follow it, so the building reads as one idea from the water to the last light fitting. It is in design development; nothing here is built yet.
Cream limestone and carved stone throughout, patterned marble floors laid in black and white, ironwork to the gates and balconies, and a glazed dome over the stair hall. Planting is kept to clipped evergreens and olive, so the architecture and the sea carry the view.
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