Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Landaa Giraavaru

A 103-villa Baa Atoll property opened November 2006 inside the UNESCO biosphere — MICD Associates architecture with One Degree North landscape, Design Basis and Avalon Collective on interiors, all running the native steep-thatch and coral-wall Maldivian vocabulary. Matteo Lusenti's Blu (Italian) and Al Barakat (Arabian) anchor the kitchens; AyurMa runs 7-to-21-night Ayurvedic immersion programs alongside the Manta Ray Project and resident-marine-biologist conservation work.