Costa Rica Buildings: Architecture
post updated 20 October 2026
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Costa Rican buildings news – modern property images & architects updates
Costa Rica Architecture News in 2026
15 October 2026
Papagayo 404 House Extension
photo : John Abrams
8 September 2026
Maravé LXR Hotel by Hilton, Quepos, Puntarenas Province
Architecture: Carazo Arquitectura
image : Carazo Arquitectura
31 July 2026
Casa Akiga, Cabo Velas, Guanacaste
Architecture: Studio Saxe
photo : Thibault Cartier
14 April 2026
Casa Komorebi, Bahía Ballena
Architecture & Landscape Design: Studio Saxe
photo : Depth Lens – Alvaro Fonseca
11 April 2026
Poder Judicial de San Ramón, Alajuela Province
Architecture: Carazo Arquitectura
photo : Cesar Belio
25 March 2026
Casa Anahata, San Rafael, Escazú, west side of capital city of San José
Design: Carazo Arquitectura
photo : Alvavo fonseca
23 March 2026
Casa Chavarria, Santa Fe, Puntarenas
Architecture: Carazo Arquitectura
photo : Cesar Belio
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Costa Rican Architecture News 2025
Costa Rica Architectural News in 2025 + Key New Property Designs, chronological:
20 November 2025
Villa Nuri, Reserva Conchal, Guanacaste
Architecture: Studio Saxe
photo : Alvaro Fonseca – Depth Lens
15 November 2025
Nekajui Ritz-Carlton Reserve, Peninsula Papagayo
Design Architect: 10 Design ; Executive Architect and Interior Designer: Gensler
Interior Designers: BAMO ; Landscape Architect: EDSA
photo : Andres Garcia
1 August 2025
Casa Solai, Santa Teresa
Architecture: Studio Saxe
photo : Alvaro Fonseca – Depth Lens
1 May 2025
Rio Perdido – West Bungalows, Guanacaste
Architecture: Studio Saxe
photo : Alvaro Fonseca – Depth Lens
16 March 2025
Villa Áurea, Tamarindo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica
Architecture: Studio Saxe
photo : Studio Saxe
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Costa Rican Architecture Design News
Costa Rica Architectural News in 2024
9 November 2024
Sinfonía Verde, Carate, Peninsula de Osa
Architecture: Studio Saxe
photo : Alvaro Fonseca
17 September 2024
Hotel Belmar, Monteverde
Design: NAAS Interior Culture
photo Courtesy of Hotel Belmar
6 September 2024
Aguas Claras Restaurant and Yoga Pavilion, Puerto Viejo
Architects: Studio Saxe
photo : Selva Studio Photography
14 May 2024
Pasha, Santa Teresa, Puntarenas
Architects: Studio Saxe
photo : Andrea Linares
Pasha Beachfront Sanctuary, Santa Teresa, Puntarenas
6 May 2024
Villa Avellana, Peninsula Papagayo, Guanacaste
Architecture and Construction: SARCO Architects Costa Rica
photo : Andres Garcia Lachner
Villa Avellana, Peninsula Papagayo
23 April 2024
Pergola, Playa Grande, Guanacaste
Architecture: Studio Saxe
Pergola House Playa Grande, Costa Rica home
6 February 2024
Villa Serena, Peninsula Papagayo, Guanacaste
Architecture and Construction: SARCO Architects Costa Rica
photo : Andres Garcia Lachner
Casa con Vista, Guanacaste
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Key modern Architecture designs in Central America in 2023:
10 Aug 2023
Suitree Experience Hotel, Guanacaste
Architects: Studio Saxe
photo : Danta Collective
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Costa Rica Building Designs Archive
13 Feb 2018
Joya Villas in Santa Teresa
Architects: Studio Saxe
photo : Andrés García Lachner
Set in the rainforest of Santa Teresa, Costa Rica, two modern homes project out of the landscape and are defined by a series of steel frames that that bring the best modern methods of construction to a tropical location. The use of large steel I-beams and concrete is a tenet of the international language of Modernist architecture and Studio Saxe have taken this design approach and recontextualised it for contemporary use.
30 Aug 2013
CasaAltamira
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20 Apr 2012
Villa Areopagus, Atenas, central Costa Rica
Design: Paravant Architects / SAAR Arquitectura
Costa Rican Villa
Villa Areopagus planned as a retirement residence for a client from Hollywood, California, the design focused on creating a home that is harmoniously integrated into the landscape of the surrounding Costa Rican mountains.
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Recent Costa Rica Building Design
Containers of Hope, San Jose, Costa Rica
Design: Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture
Costa Rica Building : San Jose Home
Gabriela Calvo and Marco Peralta dreamed of living in their fantastic property 20 minutes outside of the city of San Jose, Costa Rica; where they could be with their horses and enjoy the natural landscape.
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Costa Rica Buildings
We choose key examples of Costa Rican Architecture. We aim to include the best quality design-led Costa Rican buildings / projects. e-architect cover completed Costa Rica buildings, new building designs and architecture competitions.
Costa Rican Building Designs, alphabetical:
A Forest for a Moon Dazzler wins World’s Best Private House at World Architecture Festival Awards 2010
Bamboo house in Costa Rica designed for moon gazing
Forest Moon Dazzle – design by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architect, UK, has won the World’s Best Private House award at the prestigious World Architecture Festival Awards 2010
My mom and I never had a place we could call home. We met on the streets, always dreaming of a place we could be together. She stayed in the city in order to find comfort in my closeness. I never stopped dreaming of a place where she could find happiness.
Inspired by her routine I have given her an internal protected forest of bamboo. At night the cone-like surface of her new home opens to the moon and reminds her that it is me who is holding it in space as she goes calmly to sleep.
Brit Insurance Design Awards : 2011 Nominee – Cost Rica house
House for the architect’s father
2007
Design: Gianni Botsford Architects
Casa Kike
Gianni Botsford Architects is bringing new ‘architectural life’ to the Caribbean by reappraising the architectural heritage of the region and reviving indigenous techniques. However, by coupling them with modern design technologies and aesthetics, the architects have created an eco-architecture that is remarkably light, impacting on its surrounding only minimally both physically and environmentally.
This house for a writer in Costa Rica is nearing completion. Contrasting with the concrete aesthetic of the GBA’s award-winning Light House in London, it is a lightweight timber structure raised 1.2 m above the ground on round wooden stilts.
Iseami House, Playa Carate, Península de Osa, Puntarenas
Design: ROBLESARQ, San Jose
Iseami House Costa Rica
ISEAMI concept eradicates in the education and awareness of its occupants and its community, that will be capable tolearn about sustainable living through its spatial living.
This Costa Rica house promises a responsible approach to the nature of its location, Peninsula de Osa, a place where the 5% of the world biodiversity is embodied.
The house is the first stage of the ISEAMI institute (Institute of sustainability, ecology, art, mind and investigation). The house is the main area of the institute, therefore, it’s design will serve as a multifunctional place in order to host activities as Investigation, meditation, training, Yoga and joy at the terrace located in the first level.
More Costa Rica Building Developments online soon
Location: Costa Rica, Central America – located north of Panama, south of Nicaragua
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Architecture in North & Central America
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