That's what development group Property O Collection is experiencing right now.... after breaking ground on the private island Dellis Cay in the Turks and Caicos islands. Dellis Cay project will make Turks and Caicos become the most luxurious destination of the Caribbean. A Mandarin Oriental hotel, 154 serviced residences and 124 private villas designed by star architects are all featured on a 560-acre island. A marina located on a 35-acre beachfront site and a 30,000 SF spa are just an understatement... As Dr. Cem Kinay, Chairman and CEO of the Property O Collection, says "I want it to be the sexiest island in the world", one cannot blame his aspirations.
Zaha Hadid (Recipient of the 2004 Pritzker Architecture Prize) has overseen the Dellis Cay Master Plan. It is also planned that Hadid will create luxury residences, beachfront villas, a commercial building with restaurants and boutiques, and a marina, where living spaces expand to become one with the landscape, optimizing their beachfront location.
The Mandarin Oriental (as seen above) is conceived by Pierro Lisoni and will offer a fine dining restaurant, the MO bar, a cinema, library, business centre, cigar room, boutique shop and a private dining room.
The spa is set in pavillions designed by Kengo Kuma and will include 17 private treatment rooms, luxurious salon facilities and committed personal trainers. Kuma blurs the relationship between what is built and what has always been there.
Apart from the hotel, Lissoni designs the Beach House Residences, the Ocean Villas and the Beach Villas.
Shigeru Ban transforms materiality into light and emotion in the Beach Villas. The over-the-water guesthouses by a wood-deck bridge are harmoniously balanced by his Japanese minimalism. Chad Oppenheim will create a collection of inspired homes that soar to tree top level and beyond. 
Carl Ettensperger, the Singapore-based designer, creates a limited collection of over-the-sea villas that are characterized by understated luxury, elegance and unobstructed views of the sea.
David Chipperfield will design a collection of villas on the north shore that will project the perfect synthesis of form, balance and absolute proportion.
Residences range from $2 million to $20 million and are aimed at those looking to purchase their third and fourth houses. The development is slated for completion at the end of 2009. And you thought all stararchitects were busy with Dubai?
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