This vast homestead has been celebrated as the world’s most stylish and luxurious sheep station, and rightly so. The 36,000-acre, high-country estate strikes a rugged, utilitarian pose so well suited to the jutting limestone crags and dramatic mountains encircling it, that it seems an integral part of its moody, evocative landscape.

Designed in a combined effort with Shanghai based AIM Architecture led by Wendy Saunders and Vincent de Graaf, and Norm Architects in Copenhagen led by Peter Eland, this holiday home in Sri Lanka is a unique collaboration.

With the geometric genius of Le Corbusier as inspiration, notable sustainable architect John Bulcock has created a one-of-a-kind tropical getaway in Walatta House. This oceanfront villa for rent in Sri Lanka combines breezy, open-air volumes with strong, angular spaces for a tropical residence with a polished atmosphere of vintage glamour.

A grand, open-plan living room that places an emphasis on the word “grand,” this seaview villa showcases soaring, multi-story sliding glass doors that open onto a waterfront panorama and fully furnished poolscape. The bold villa’s generous glass slider theme continues throughout, connecting the generous estate to its lush natural surroundings.

This vacation home rental in Bali comes from one of those leaps of faith we all know we have in us, and fewer sometimes accomplish. But the lure of Bali, adventure and a love of the culture proved too much of an intoxicating mix for the owners who took that leap, creating a tropical-modern retreat where your views of the pink morning skies illuminate the jungle treetops over the Bukit Peninsula.

Settling in the highlands of Ubud among some of the island's most celebrated landscapes, he began work on a growing portfolio of stunning island residences and commercial projects.