Houses that hold the light

Five residences, commissioned one at a time, from architects who build for a horizon rather than a floorplan.

Villa Azure Malibu, California · United States Skyline Penthouse South Bank, London · United Kingdom Cliff House Santorini · Greece Casa Luna Pollença, Mallorca · Spain

i. The house

We do not sell square metres. We commission buildings that will still be worth living in when their first owners are gone.

Domaine works with a small number of architects each year. Every residence begins with a site visit at four different hours of one day, because a house is a machine for receiving light and nothing else about it can be judged until you know how the light arrives.

What follows is the current collection. Each one can be walked through from where you are sitting.

How we build

ii. The collection

Five residences, five countries, one idea

Malibu, California · United States

Villa Azure

A single-storey concrete bar set into a Malibu headland, with the whole of the living floor turned toward the water.

Bedrooms: 5
Bathrooms: 6
Interior: 812 m²

$18,500,000 For Sale

South Bank, London · United Kingdom

Skyline Penthouse

The top two floors of a 1930s riverside block, stripped back to structure and rebuilt around a single stone stair.

Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 4
Interior: 541 m²

£17,500,000 Reserved

Santorini · Greece

Cliff House

Three whitewashed volumes cut into the caldera wall, connected by a terrace that is really the main room.

Bedrooms: 4
Bathrooms: 5
Interior: 386 m²

€12,400,000 For Sale

Pollença, Mallorca · Spain

Casa Luna

A courtyard house on a Tramuntana terrace, built from the stone that came out of its own foundations.

Bedrooms: 6
Bathrooms: 5
Interior: 624 m²

€8,900,000 For Sale

Aspen, Colorado · United States

Forest Retreat

A timber-and-glass pavilion held above an aspen grove, designed around three metres of annual snowfall.

Bedrooms: 5
Bathrooms: 5
Interior: 498 m²

$9,600,000 Sold

The whole collection

iii. Walk through

Stand in the room before you book the flight

A genuine 360° walk-through of Villa Azure. Drag to look around, scroll to change the lens, and step between rooms using the markers in the scene.

Preparing the room

Living floor

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All about Villa Azure

iv. Method

Concrete, stone, glass, and a long argument about where the stair goes

Every Domaine residence is drawn around a single circulation move — a stair, a ramp, a courtyard you must cross to reach the bedrooms. Decide that, and the rest of the plan follows almost without argument.

We build in board-formed concrete, local stone and full-height glazing, with timber reserved for the surfaces you touch. Nothing is applied; if a material appears on the outside it continues on the inside.

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v. What is included

The things that are not extras

Specified as standard across the collection, not offered as an upgrade at contract stage.

01
Full-height glazing

Structural glass to 3.4 m with concealed frames, triple-glazed and solar-controlled.
4 residences
02
Cellar and tasting room

Temperature-stable store for 900 bottles, cut into the rock where the site allows.
3 residences
03
Staff and guest quarters

Separately accessed accommodation with its own kitchen and service entrance.
3 residences
04
Garaging for four

Conditioned garaging with charging for four vehicles and a workshop bay.
3 residences
05
Landscape by commission

Planting designed for the site by a landscape architect, established before handover.
3 residences
06
Infinity-edge pool

Deck-level pool with a horizon overflow, heated to 29 °C, run from a plant room you never see.
2 residences
07
Board-formed concrete

Structural walls cast against sawn boards, sealed but never painted, inside and out.
2 residences
08
Whole-house ventilation

Heat-recovery ventilation with a filtered fresh-air change every two hours.
2 residences

vi. In sequence

Five ways to meet a horizon

Keep scrolling — the collection moves sideways.

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vii. Where

Four coastlines, one mountain

viii. Who you will speak to

ix. Journal

Notes on building, and on living in what has been built

Interior Design 1 minute read

Handed over furnished, or empty

Two entirely reasonable answers, which have to be given before the ground is broken.

Houses that hold the light

We do not sell square metres. We commission buildings that will still be worth living in when their first owners are gone.