Image 15 of 19 from gallery of Lyons Garden House / Co Lateral. Photograph by Claudio Napolitano

2021 Best of Year winner for Hospitality - Large Resort. Studio MK27 founder and architect Marcio Kogan’s lavish vision of tropical modernism has come to define the look of much residential design in his native Brazil. For his first resort project—a paradisical getaway on the Fari Islands atoll in the Maldives—he took a different tack, designing a compound so modest and simple that it almost vanishes into the splendor of its lushly landscaped surroundings.