High on the limestone cliffs of Ungasan, Karma’s latest architectural masterpiece has been taking shape: two sculptural apartment buildings, one wrapped around an open courtyard, the other crystalline in form, both crowned with eccentric roofs that echo Bali’s Hindu temple architecture.
Patterns, the Los Angeles studio of Argentinian-American architects Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich, dresses them in andesite, lava stone, basalt brick and dark timber, shades them with deep overhangs and screened facades, and links apartments, penthouses and townhouse-style villas through terraces and a meandering pool with a swim-up bar.
At the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, the jury of the AIA|LA NEXT LA Awards, run by the city’s chapter of the American Institute of Architects, has given the design its 2026 Honor Award for Commercial / Mixed Use, its highest distinction. Patterns also took Platinum honours at the 2025 International Architecture & Design Awards, and construction is now underway.
