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post updated 19 July 2024

Bahamas Architecture Links

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Bahamas Architecture.

We try to include Bahamas buildings & architectural projects that are of strong design intent. Designs from anywhere in the Caribbean are welcome. A well known architecture typology that came from these islands is the Bahamian clapboard house.

We cover completed Bahamas buildings plus new building designs. We also post architecture competitions across the Caribbean.

Bahamas Architecture

Featured Designs from the area in and around the Bahamas:

6 Sep 2020
Windbreak Villa, Providenciales, The Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the Bahamas
Design: Blee Halligan Architects
Windbreak Villa Turks and Caicos Islands
image courtesy of architect firm
Windbreak Villa
Windbreak Villa (now Uxue) is ‘a home shaped by the wind’. Located in the Turks and Caicos Islands, the coastal site is a kiteboarding paradise.

Mar 6, 2020
illa Bimini
Design: Oppenheim Architecture
illa Bimini Eco-Resort Bahamas
image courtesy of architectural practice
illa Bimini Eco-Resort in The Bahamas
Oppenheim Architecture’s illa Bimini is a new environmentally sustainable eco-resort offering a secluded retreat that invites residents and guests to foster a deeper connection with the landscape. Set on a 9,000-foot stretch of Bimini’s coastline and featuring the first overwater bungalows in the Bahamas, the resort is a holistic community where every element is designed to blur the boundary between architecture and the landscape, bringing residents and guests closer to nature.

Jan 3, 2017
House on a Dune, Harbour Island
Design: Chad Oppenheim, architects
House on a Dune in Harbour Island
image courtesy of architect office
House on a Dune: Beach Residence Bahamas
The House on a Dune is a minimalistic, elegant and comfortable beach house that blends into its breathtaking surroundings in Harbour Island, Bahamas.

27 Apr 2016
Bella Vita Villa, The Turks and Caicos Islands
Design: Prototype Design Lab Inc.
Bella Vista Villa
image courtesy of architecture studio
Bella Vita Villa
The Bella Vita Villa celebrates its natural, oceanfront site. The villa explores lightness, filtering natural breezes, layers of transparency and integrating indoor / outdoor spaces within dynamic patterns of light and shadow, providing a simple frame within which a contemporary sustainable lifestyle can unfold.

28 Jan 2014
Honeycomb building
Design: BIG + HKS + MDA
Honeycomb Building
image courtesy of architects
Honeycomb Building, Bahamas Albany Resort
BIG + HKS + MDA have unveiled the design for the new Honeycomb building and its adjacent public plaza in The Bahamas – a 175,000 ft² (ca. 16,000 m²) residential building with a private pool on each balcony overlooking the marina.

House for Anish Kapoor
2008-
Design: Rem Koolhaas Architect / OMA

More projects online soon

Custom Home Design Challenge
2009
First Place US $12,000
Bahamas Home
image from contest organiser
Bahamas Home

The objective of the architectural competition is the design of a 7,000 – 8,000 square foot multigenerational home on the waterfront in the Bahamas.

The architectural ‘guideline’ for the home design should be one that stimulates and delights with its unique ideas, exotic details and classic emphasis, and harmonizes indoor and outdoor living spaces.

Location: Bahamas, the Caribbean

North American Architecture

Florida Architecture
Florida Architecture
rendering courtesy of dbox

Rem Koolhaas Architect

Developments in countries close to the Bahamas

American Architecture

Cuban Projects
Guantanamo Bay
image from contest organiser

Mexican Building
Casa Negra
photograph : Rafael Gam

King Edward VII Memorial Hospital Site, Bermuda
Design: Swanke Hayden Connell Architects
Bermuda Hospital Building
picture from architect practice
Bermuda Hospital Building

Caribbean Property – Barbados
Sipopo Bahamas
photograph © Christian Richters

Comments / photos for the Bahamas Architecture page – Caribbean Buildings welcome

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