So Many Developments in Bali . . . Pradha Jimbaran
Here’s Pradha Jimbaran, another luxury Bali Style beach villa development. Another.
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 … Continue reading →
This one has nine units, with just 300 – 350 square meters of land per villa. I don’t know if I would call that a “villa”, exactly. But they’re not apartments, for sure. Maybe they should be referred to as compartments? The project is called “The Seminyak Beach Resort”. Again a … Continue reading →
This one is eight villas on a clifftop near Nusa Dua. Hmm. Site photo below. “Uh-oh. Whose signature did you say is on that environmental impact statement?”
Phew, at least this Ubud development isn’t intensely dense. It’s 30 units on 42,000 square meters. Do the math. That’s 1400 square meters of land per unit. Respectable. Of course it’s respectable, this one’s a Bakrieland development. It’s the Ubud Nirwana wellness residences. Kind of a consciously created community of … Continue reading →
Here’s another apartment block for you. The Bali Kuta Residence will really put the “D” in Density for the Kuta area. Hmmm.
Gosh. Another dense villa development is under way at the Pecatu megaproject. This one is by Korean developers, with HST architects doing the drawings. It’s called Nuri Villas Hmm.
Out on the arid hills of Pecatu, the enormous “New Kuta” development is finally under way. It will include numerous residential, commercial, resort and leisure properties, among them the New Kuta Condotel, which is already under construction. I suppose there are sea views from upstairs. And its dirt cheap to buy … Continue reading →
This one is pretty tightly packed, but it will have beach access. Karma Jimbaran Villas is just a stone’s throw from the gorgeous Four Seasons Resort, an enviable location indeed.
Way out Candidasa way, in the town of Manggis, just beside the Amankila, Karma Agung residences will be rising soon from the seashore. The beaches out there are great, where there are beaches. In the centre of Candidasa proper, the shoreline eroded away years ago, thanks to reef destruction for … Continue reading →
Ooo, this is another biggie, with a land-side clubhouse and spa, as well as a beach club. There will be apartments, villas and building lots, so you could say there will be something for everyone.
This is going to be another big one. It’s a themed community focused on various healing modalities from around the world. The word is that one of the main investor-sponsors is a retired racecar driver. Businesses with factories and workshops in the Tabanan area are having difficulty hiring and keeping … Continue reading →
This one will be an apartment block on quite a grand scale, already rising fast, near the Sunset Road in Kuta.
The Banyan Tree Ungasan, down on the Bukit not far from the Bulgari resort is going to be a big, big one.
La Vie villas will be conveniently located in Seminyak. They look more like townhouses than villas, though, but what’s in a word?
Already under construction, the Batubelig Residences is strategically located near the beach on the shortcut road that connects Seminyak and Canggu. These residences designed by Fredo Taffin are expected to sell at well over a million dollars each. Location location location.
Not many units, but lots of design (by Gary Fell) and special features will attract buyers to the Wabi Umalas Villas.
The Sing Ken Ken apartment block soon to rise high in Seminyak. “Sing ken ken,” in Balinese means, “No worries, mate.”
And here’s an aerial rendering of a villa development by Paradise Property out in Tabanan.
And here’s the Ramachandra villa development, pretty dense, I must say. What happens if they all flush their toilets at the same time?
So many developments it makes my head spin! Here’s the Novotel apartments in Nusa Dua. Multi-story, high-density, full-service. The above image is only half of the whole project. There are several more blocks south of the lake!
Here’s a glimpse of a development underway in the sacred east of Bali, on a beach in Karangasem.
There are so many villa and apartment developments going on in Bali it makes my head spin. Here’s one. The multi-use development at Dreamland Beach (formerly much beloved of bohemians and surfers) in the Bukit Jimbaran area. Construction already begun. Locally-owned cafes already demolished, cement and steel rising fast. The … Continue reading →
From a bali news website written in Indonesian, called Berita Bali, comes this little item about traffic and parking problems in Ubud, Bali’s most famous hill town. (The translation is mine.) Parking Chaos in Ubud: Never a Day Without a Traffic Jam Although it is one of Bali’s most popular destinations … Continue reading →
The Sydney Morning Herald has published a sizeable feature story on the impacts of overdevelopment in Bali, with the scathing headline: “Island paradise sucked dry by tourists”. I consider this piece to be required reading for anyone who is interested in Bali in any way, shape or form. The article … Continue reading →
O, ye tropical designers of Bali, we bid thee, pay close attention. It is not enough to be “minimalis” meaning just leaving off the ornament and being blank. When you go simple, the bones are exposed and the proportions, functions, and relation to nature must be right. Where is the … Continue reading →
Let’s start taking textiles seriously as visual art. Hundreds of different cultures all over the planet have produced woven works that are so far beyond fashion or decoration as to merit being regarded simply as works of abstract visual art. Kathleen Taylor is one of the handful of textile dealers … Continue reading →
Joe Loux, one of the few tribal art and textile dealers whose tastes coincide almost unerringly with my own, is showing this dazzling patola in the annual exhibition of the San Francisco Tribal group at the Presidio. The exhibition opens with a benefit bash on 10 October, with proceeds going … Continue reading →
I have been a textile art dealer for about fifteen years. The longer I look at textiles, the more I see and appreciate them as works of art, and the more I look for pieces that speak first and foremost as aesthetic objects, and not just as ethnographic curiousities. It … Continue reading →