South Caicos has always been defined by salt — the shallow flats that made this the economic engine of the Turks and Caicos for two centuries — and that history runs directly through the design of Salterra, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, which opened in 2025 on a beachfront site bordering Admiral Cockburn Land and Sea National Park. TVS (Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates) shaped the low-rise compound into white-rendered pavilion blocks arranged around a freeform pool terrace, their pitched roofs finished in warm grey and fitted with solar panels, their massing kept deliberately horizontal so the Atlantic stays visible from nearly every vantage point. The palette pulls from the landscape: cerulean water, bleached sand, the oxidised rust of old salt pans rendered in art and textiles throughout the 100 ocean-facing rooms and suites. Interior designer Malcolm Berg of Edge of Architecture — named Gold Key Awards Designer of the Year in 2020 — worked the same earthy warmth into the guest rooms, where travertine-format stone floors, channelled linen headboards, cognac leather benches, and sculptural ceramic lamps sit beneath whitewashed beam ceilings. Abstract works in pink and ochre, suggestive of aerial views over the salt flats, hang above every bed. The open-air bar and restaurant takes the most direct approach: exposed timber trusses over a hardwood deck, fossilized coral stone columns left rough-faced, and folding glass walls that dissolve completely to let the sea breeze carry straight through.