Letters from

the desert.

Full moon rising over a desert mesa at dusk

Featured

Architecture

8 min

Why we built a hotel without clocks

On circadian design, walls half a metre thick, and the strange relief of not knowing what time it is.

Portrait of Dr. Inès Morrow, medical director

Dr. Inès Morrow, MD

Feb 12, 2026

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Featured

Architecture

8 min

Why we built a hotel without clocks

On circadian design, walls half a metre thick, and the strange relief of not knowing what time it is.

Dr. Inès Morrow, MD

Feb 12, 2026

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Longevity

Land & people

Kitchen

Night sky

Architecture

All

Longevity

Land & people

Kitchen

Night sky

Architecture

Potter shaping clay on a wheel in the Nahat workshop

Land & people

6 min

Clay, water, patience: a morning with the Nahat family

Land & people

6 min

Clay, water, patience: a morning with the Nahat family

Sleep suite bedroom lit by a single amber lamp

Longevity

9 min

What two nights in our sleep lab taught 400 guests

Longevity

9 min

What two nights in our sleep lab taught 400 guests

Dates, figs, labneh and flatbread laid out on a stone table

Kitchen

4 min

The mineral breakfast, explained

Kitchen

4 min

The mineral breakfast, explained

Night sky

7 min

A field guide to a Bortle-1 sky

Night sky

7 min

A field guide to a Bortle-1 sky

Desert garden of agaves and palms along a water channel

Land & people

5 min

Growing food where it almost never rains

Land & people

5 min

Growing food where it almost never rains

Stone bathtub in Shadow House lit by a narrow shaft of noon light

Architecture

6 min

Eleven minutes of noon: designing the slit of light

Architecture

6 min

Eleven minutes of noon: designing the slit of light

One letter

a season.

Moon calendars, recipes from the fire, first word on new dates. Never more.