This luxury holiday home in the Maldives has an aquarium-like underwater bedroom suite where guests can watch marine life while they rest, wash and get dressed.
Local architect Ahmed Saleem teamed with New York firm Yuji Yamazaki to design The Muraka as a private holiday villa at the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island resort.
It comprises a slender top-storey above water that contains the kitchen, living and dining area, and three bedrooms. An additional bedroom suite is submerged in the water and encased in curved, seven-inch-thick acrylic walls.

"The Maldives is known for its pristine beach and sea," architect Yuji Yamazaki said. "The views of the ocean are breathtaking. But that's only the half of the Maldivian beauty." "The other half exists underwater," he added. "There is an underwater ecosystem that is worth showing to the visitors without diving in the sea."
Guests arrive at the villa by a private seaplane and enter along a wooden jetty that leads into the top floor. A spiral staircase that features windows to the sea en route, or an elevator, then descends down to the 100-square-metre suite underwater.

A walkway between two smaller rooms for the bathroom and a walk-in wardrobe with windows to the water leads through to the bedroom, with a portal to an adjoining sitting area.
"We have the arch for the bedroom part where you can lie and look at the fish on top of you," said Saleem. "We have the living room part, wh...