“His father had been a minister, like his father before. Now, Mr. Cooper leans on local farms and butchers for ingredients, serving the community where he has lived his whole life.“

Austin-based design studio FÖDA pulled inspiration from John Ruskin’s essay “The Seven Lamps of Architecture” to reimagine a Gothic Revival church built in 1904. A grid of 288 five-inch gold bells now rings inside the tower, while the expansive bar occupies the apse.

Neither David Hornblow nor his daughter, Amelia, ever envisioned owning a house on Bali, much less a bamboo aerie perched precipitously above a river. The family’s jungle adventure began some three years ago, when, on vacation, they paid a visit to Green Village, a planned community of bamboo residences just outside the ancient inland town of Ubud.