Big, Beautiful, Expensive Villa in Bali

"Alila Villas Uluwatu by WOHA"
Contemporist (November 12, 2008)

"Opening in early 2009 are the Alila Villas Uluwatu in Bali, Indonesia. The 14.4 hectare development offers three-bedroom contemporary Balinese villas for sale, as well as a hotel for those on holiday in Bali. Alila Villas Uluwatu has been designed by the Singapore based WOHA...."

"...the architects wanted to create more than the usual stereotypical ideas of Bali, creating a design that worked with the dry Balinese Savannah vegetation and gently sloping site, not against it. The fact that the aim was to build a resort to Green Globe certification and with Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD) standards...."

The post has over a dozen photos, and describes an impressive house. Also seriously upscale. The photos are beautiful, and the first thing that struck me about one was that someone could fall off the reflecting pool.

Another showed what I think is some of the "sustainable" wood that the owners had shipped to Bali. I'm from an agricultural area: and to me, that artistic pattern looks like a corn crib after a really bad storm.