Masterwork architectural villas for rent post-lockdown
Masterwork architectural villas for rent post-lockdown
Architectural villas offer incentive to travel from your sofa. Our edit – from solo retreats to boutique complexes – will also be available to rent once the time comes for freer movement
Mexico’s La Extraviada is designed by husband-and-wife team architect Ivan Esqueda Martínez and interior designer Gala Sánchez Renero
La Extraviada, Mexico
Photography: Nin Solis
Created by Mexico City based architect Ivan Esqueda Martínez as his private family retreat, La Extraviada is an idyllic getaway on Oaxaca’s Mermejita Beach. Set among rich foliage on a hillside overlooking the green scenery and Pacific Ocean, the house features interiors by the architect’s wife, Gala Sánchez Renero, and is now available to rent. Engulfed in nature, the house is broken down into three distinct volumes, in order for it to adapt easily to the sloped site. The volumes ‘rese
Discover Costa Rica, the Favorite Country of Visitors to Central America
“It is so beautiful; I would not change my Costa Rica for anything because giving up my beloved land is like giving up life. I thank my good father for being born in this land where war is never pursued, I feel full of peace” We begin these lines with the emotional fragment of the poem: “My beloved Costa Rica”, belonging to Mauricio Cruz Aguirres from poems of the soul.
Without a doubt, Costa Rica has always stood out in the world for various factors. We will state here many of them where we will also pay tribute to our land of grace. Our country is a paradise of natural treasures. In Costa Rica, there is “Pure Life “! This country of Central America took the lead before others in the region to become the best country for tourists to visit.
Dung beetles. Photo: Krzysztof Niewolny/Unsplash, (CC BY-SA)
Chances are, the works of the world’s insects touch your lips every day. The coffee or tea you savor, both are pollinated by insects. Apples, oranges, cabbages, cashews, cherries, carrots, broccoli, watermelon, garlic, cinnamon, basil, sunflower seeds, almonds, canola oil all are insect-pollinated. Honey, dyes, even some vaccines require insects to come to fruition.
Vital to the world’s food web, nested in nutrient cycling, and embedded in industries the closer we look, the more we see insects as vital to maintaining life’s frameworks. Referring to this fact, famed biologist E.O. Wilson wrote in 1987, “[I]f invertebrates were to disappear, I doubt the human species could last more than a few months.”
Discovery of ‘cryptic species’ shows Earth is even more biologically diverse
A method called DNA barcoding has revealed that some animals and plants believed to be a single species are actually separate
By Patrick Greenfield / The Guardian
A growing number of “cryptic species” hiding in plain sight have been unmasked in the past year, driven in part by the rise of DNA barcoding, a technique that can identify and differentiate between animal and plant species using their genetic divergence.
The discovery of new species of aloe, African leaf-nosed bats and chameleons that appear similar to the human eye, but are in fact many and separate, have thrilled and worried conservationists.