Casona Sforza

Puerto Escondido’s newest design hotel is a stitch less collaboration between entrepreneur Ezequiel Ayarza Sforza and Mexico City architect Alberto Kalach of Tax Architects. Casona Sforza’s hallmark feature is the asymmetric brick arches that oscillate like a dragon’s back. The volumes were designed to be as functional as they are visually striking: The vaulted design is earthquake-proof, and the locally sourced yellow brick reflects sunlight to keep interiors cool without the need for A.C. The clutch of buildings houses 11 individually styled guest suites with private terraces, a restaurant, and a bar that opens onto a circular swimming pool and the Pacific in the distance.

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With his sculptures, Philadelphia-based potter Roberto Lugo has celebrated African American heroes like Angela Davis, Shirley Chisholm, and Kendrick Lamar, as well as memorialized victims of police brutality such as Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and Freddie Gray. The work is about representation, the Afro-Latino artist explains: “The first time I sat at a pottery wheel, I felt like I wasn’t supposed to be there.” He hopes his pieces can change that for others, using imagery that will mean as much to a teenager in North Philly as a collector at Design Miami. “Ceramics last thousands of years,” Lugo says. “Someday these pieces could tell the history of my community.” robertolugostudio.com

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Keys and Dean on the pool terrace. Frank Frances Studio