Susi Johnston Bali Blog

Look out, Bali, here come 26 apartments with wiggly walls. How are you supposed to arrange your furniture? It’s going up on the beach in Legian. It’s a wiggly, wiggly world. Even the interior staircases are wiggly. I think I’ll just take the lift instead.

This four-storey development is under constuction in Seminyak. It’s a 100-unit condotel right on Jalan Laksmana (“Eat Street”). Each unit will offer 50 square meters of location location location. But not enough room to swing a cat. Probably not pets allowed anyhow, so perhaps that’s not a big concern.

How about this? An apartment development in East Bali. It’s a 32-unit, four-storey complex, right on the water near Padang Bai. Hmmm.

In popular Umalas, this four-storey apartment block with 53 suites is nearing completion. Hmmm.

Here’s the master plan for the New Kuta mega multi-use development taking place on the Bukit Peninsula, which includes residential, hospitality, commercial, education and leisure components at various market levels. Don’t ask what else it includes. It’s probably better to ask, “What doesn’t it include?”

This one’s a clump of twelve mini-villas in Canggu, with mini-gardens just big enough to swing a cat. Of course, no self-respecting Buddhist of Buddha Garden Villas would ever be caught dead or alive swinging cats.

This is a residential and resort property with nine villas for sale. The other units are hotel suites. Alila is a great hotel brand, with a commitment to quality, value and good design. They already have two properties in Bali, the Alila Ubud, and Alila Manggis.

So naturally I was pleased to hear of two new Alila developments on the boards for Bali; this one near Tanah Lot in Tabanan, and Alila Uluwatu on the Bukit Peninsula. If there’s development is going on, it might as well be quality development.

I was not pleased to find out that both new Alila developments have been plagued by protests and planning authorities, in rather aggressive ways. On an island where enforcement of planning and building regulations is tainted with capriciousness and corruption, one has to ask, “Why single out Alila?” If the issues are shoreline and cliff setbacks, then the next question one might ask is “Why are the Pecatu projects at Dreamland and Balangan beaches steaming ahead, unchallenged?” Hmmm.

Read my update on the Alila Soori here.

Here’s Pradha Jimbaran, another luxury Bali Style beach villa development. Another.

Here’s a ten-unit uber luxury villa development up on the cliffs of Bukit Jimbaran, beside the Ritz Carlton Resort, Bali.

Extraordinary architecture by Tom Elliot. Has Tom gone a bit troppo?

This is a biggie, and with a big name, Outrigger. This is a tropical villa developer with a real track record. Following on the relative success of their O-ce-n apartment development on Legian beach, here’s the Outrigger Panorama.

It’s under construction, near the Bulgari Bali luxury resort way out on the tip of the Bukit Peninsula near Ungasan. Big big big.