Something radical is happening in golf resort planning: KEVIN O'CONNOR visits a development in northern Portugal designed by 23 European starchitects FUSING “art and nature” was the demanding challenge given to architects designing Bom Sucesso, a resort about 50kms north of Lisbon – but the result is visually remarkable. For art, read architecture and for nature read the coastline washed by Atlantic breakers. That’s the setting for a development of villas and townhouses designed by teams of Europe’s leading architects, each a prizewinner for previous work and each willing to mesh with others’ ideas to deliver the resort known as Bom Sucesso – the good success. The architects include Portugal ’s Álvaro Siza Viera, who has just won Britain’s top architectural prize, the RIBA gold medal for 2009; Manuel Aires Mateus, who is designing the hotel in Dublin’s Grand Canal Dock; and David Chipperfield, one of the UK’s internationally best known architects. The i...
