ISLAND LIFE
Wallpaper|June 2023
A Barbadian villa by local practice Elements Architecture offers privacy, pizazz and pitch-perfect views for polo lovers
WILL PRYCE
ISLAND LIFE

On the west coast of Barbados, the land drops away from the hills to the sea. The prevailing breeze comes from the east, easing the consistently warm Barbadian climate, whose winter temperature average of 26°C is only a degree lower than the summer average. The hills are shaped into a series of steeper slopes and flatter ridges, and it was on one of these ridges, next to a polo field, that architect Douglas Patrick Luke took some clients to look at a potential site.

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