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‘To fall in love with the desert is a bit like becoming enamoured with repetition,’ observes Mexico City-based architect Héctor Coss. Along with architect María Gómez, he was recalling their first visit to the site that would later hold Casa Santos, an unconventional home co-designed by the pair – who each direct their eponymous firms – in the Todos Santos region of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula.

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