Along the Batu Ferringhi coastline, By the Sea doesn’t sit beside the beach so much as continue it. A low-rise condominium – an extension of sand and shoreline, where a once-polluted river was rehabilitated by hand serves as the ecological heart of the site. Native coastal plants, water bodies and timber boardwalks blur every edge, until private garden and public shore became difficult to tell apart.

Engineered for the marine air it lives in, every home breathes with 40-foot balconies built on breezeway principle; spaces that shift with the mood, and materials chosen to outlast salt, wind and sun alike. This is beach life without compromise: waking up to the tide instead of traffic, evenings that end on an infinity-edge pool facing open water.