Tropical Luxury

Five hundred square metres for a lot is relatively modest. But in the expert hands of the architect Royal Pineda and designer Budji Layug, it is still a canvas for a creative project as stunning and imposing as one on an area twice or even four times this size. “Be it 500, or a thousand, or more, it is always a challenge to find that feeling of luxury,” says Pineda, the other half of top architecture and design firm Budji+Royal.

What works for this project is that this corner lot