The simple steel, wood and glass frame encasing this Costa Rican holiday home was designed by Studio Saxe to keep residents exposed to the lush jungle surrounding. More about Studio Saxe creates "tropical atrium" within Jungle Frame House in Costa Rica
This beachfront retreat in Costa Rica, by local studio Laboratory Sustaining Design, includes a waterfall that flows between the outdoor pools stepped down its steep site. More about Waterfall cascades from Costa Rica beach retreat by LSD Architects
Costa Rican architecture firm Studio Saxe has expanded an existing residence with hotel rooms and a pool to create a new resort in the beach town of Nosara. More about Studio Saxe transforms Costa Rican lodge into The Gilded Iguana surf resort
Architecture firm Studio Saxe has stepped a series of pavilion-like guest rooms down a slope facing the Pacific Ocean, creating a hotel in a Costa Rican beach town. More about Staggered pavilions form holiday resort on lush hill in Costa Rican surf town
San Jose-based architecture firm Studio Saxe has built a house in Costa Rica with an indoor-outdoor great room and cantilevered porches upstairs that overlook dense tropical foliage. More about Studio Saxe creates contemporary villa in Costa Rican rainforest
San José-based practice Studio Saxe has designed this hotel in Costa Rica so that guests can perform yoga flows or rigorous boxing workouts in a studio surrounded by lush vegetation. More about Studio Saxe surrounds Costa Rican yoga retreat with jungle planting
Two volumes, one made from zinc and one from concrete, are separated by a glazed walkway and terrace in this Costa Rican house by MG Design Studio. More about Outdoor terrace divides two sides of zinc and concrete home in Costa Rica
Costa Rica is slowly gaining recognition for its contemporary architecture, so here are five residential projects that demonstrate the small Central American country's particular style of tropical modernism. More about Five of the best houses in Costa Rica on Dezeen
Costa Rica studio Carazo Arquitectura has completed a concrete residence that sprawls across the summit of a hill and steps down the slope into a canopy of vegetation. More about Grove of trees shades hillside Costa Rican house by Carazo Arquitectura
Extensive glazing across this house in Costa Rica by local firm Cañas Arquitectos provides vistas of the verdant landscape by day and the twinkling city below at night. More about Steel and glass Costa Rican home by Cañas Arquitectos projects towards views of San Jose
Wooden walls can be folded back from the front of this house on Costa Rica's coastline, opening up ocean views for the bedrooms and living spaces within (+ slideshow). More about Movable wooden walls front Benjamin Garcia Saxe's Ocean Eye House
A folded roof shelters a pathway between the indoor and outdoor rooms that form this holiday home in Costa Rica by Obra Architects (+ slideshow). More about Costa Rica residence by Obra Architects boasts indoor and outdoor rooms
A series of pillars raise the interconnected rooms of this house by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture above the tree tops of the surrounding Costa Rican forest (+ slideshow). More about Casa Flotanta by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture is raised above a forest