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design
Architectural Digest
- Published August 2010
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Landscape architect Bill Bensley
was responsible for a complete redesign of the grounds at Anantara Resort &
Spa, a 90-room hotel located in Thailand—in the Golden Triangle, the point
where Myanmar, Laos and Thailand meet. Commanding a view over a jungle
canopy, its pool may be the only one in the world that looks out onto three
different countries. A poppy motif—a nod to the area’s history of opium
trade—accents the pool.
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Architect Alexander Gorlin
created a guesthouse/studio for an artist in East Hampton, New York. He had
designed a Palladian main house for the property almost 20 years earlier and
welcomed the opportunity to build a complementary structure on the site that
could stand on its own. Pictured: An old garden wall adjacent to the pool
has been preserved and enhanced with plantings by its owner, who is an
enthusiastic gardener. Trees obscure the guesthouse/studio, which is just up
the hill.
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On California’s Newport
Coast—the stretch of the Pacific long nicknamed the American Riviera—Donald
Bren, chairman of the Irvine Company, decided to build Pelican Hill, a
Mediterranean-style resort. The westerly view from the clubhouse pool takes
in not only the lower terraces and golf courses of the hotel but the whole
of Newport Harbor. Lining the pool are 300,000 hand-cut blue glass tiles.
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