Tala means young palm in Arabic, the first thing you plant on new ground. On Edmor Road, close to the action of Antique Row and downtown West Palm Beach, Tala is tropical modern with a Mission memory, turned inward. A board-formed concrete wall and one clean-cut arch face the street, with a timber fin screen above and a roof that lifts on a single curve. Behind the wall, the house wraps around two courtyards and a lap pool, and a double-height living room opens until the garden is part of it. Architecture unlike anything else in the neighborhood, for a buyer who knows the difference. Coffee on Dixie, afternoons in the courtyard, evenings by the pool: close to everything, and entirely private. The new Palm Beach, on an old street.