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BluPrint’s Second Volume for 2023: Creating Connections talks about the importance of integrating natural elements to built environments. BluPrint highlights six projects that connect indoor and outdoor spaces to bring users closer to nature and reap its benefits.
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Credits
Text IVAN QUERUBIN
Interview RICK FORMALEJO
Photography ED SIMON
Videographer EXCEL PANLAQUE
Art Direction DIANNE FERNANDO
Video Producer MIGUEL LIM
Sittings Editor GEEWEL FUSTER

Shoot Coordination MAE TALAID and MJ ALMERO

Windows Over Windows

It’s what you do when you’re a green-loving architect like Formzero’s Cherng Yih Lee, and your client isn’t interested in the forest outside

5 mins

Workaholics Finish First

Bangkok’s Architectural Studio of Work-Aholic (ASWA) takes their first stab at WAF and counts on the power of spatial storytelling to take home the prize

3 mins

Firm Follows Feeling

Bangkok-based landscape architecture firm P Landscape emphasizes the human experience and feeling through contemporary integration of art, culture, and ecology

5 mins

Tried and Tested

WAF and INSIDE multi-awardee Hypothesis’ researchintensive approach produces complete design solutions that are anything but formulaic

2 mins

Crew's Control

Young Thai studio Creative Crews finds a worldwide audience for three very different projects: a rural homestay, a classroom for the blind, and their own office, all indicative of the practice’s adaptive design solutions

5 mins

Steel by Eduardo Calma

MAGIS HOMES

4 mins

Natural Flow

Jakarta-based studio Nataneka Arsitek embraces natural movement within a crisp, modernist package

3 mins

Renovating A National Artist

By respecting its original program, Rebecca Plaza revives a Leandro Locsin house to last another fifty years

4 mins

Design, Build, Maintain

Three disappointed clients create Magis Homes so their customers can afford Calma, Galicia, Periquet, Yulo, and Yupangco designs constructed and cared for by a trusted builder

9 mins

Atelier Funk Architecture

Juxtaposition is a figure of speech that places two elements close together. In literature, this technique is often done to compare or contrast—etching out a character to magnify the differences between the two subjects. Though simplistic, this parallelism is an effective way to understand each entity using the obvious characteristics of the other one.

2 mins

Jim Torres

Pampanga-based industrial designer Jim Torres was mentored by Filipino designer Jude Tiotuico. Torres’ adventurous, dauntless, and determined character allows him to strike a perfect balance between art and design that can be seen through his works. He has exhibited his debut works through the Red Box program of Manila FAME. He was awarded as grand winner of the Red Box Home Accents Category for his Harris lamps.

2 mins

Nikki Buensalido

Nikki Buensalido graduated Magna Cum Laude and Valedictorian with a Rector’s Award for Academic Excellence for her degree in Architecture at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila—evidence that she effortlessly succeeds in whatever endeavor she sets her heart to complete.

5 mins

Space Encounters

Space Encounters, a design firm and furniture shop, speaks an industrial midcentury modern (MCM) tongue to the extent that it has become its recognizable trademark.

3 mins

Permanent Pleasures

An exercise in crafting space, material, and texture for a house of unadulterated enjoyment in Manila that sets Nazareno + Guerrero Design Consultancy apart from the rest

4 mins

Design, Build, Maintain

Three disappointed clients create Magis Homes so their customers can afford Calma, Galicia, Periquet, Yulo, and Yupangco designs constructed and cared for by a trusted builder

9 mins

Magis Homes Steel By Eduardo Calma

Ed Calma is one of the country’s best Modernist architects.

1 min

Lario By Dominic Galicia

Lario is a play on the Spanish word, ladrillo, which means ‘brick.’

1 min

Alexander Erikkson Furunes and Sudarshan V. Khadka, Jr.

Our Work Is A Lot About Understanding The Value Of Collaboration And Trying To Form Shared Meanings Within A Group Of People. We Use The Architectural Design Process As A Method Of Building Relations And Meaning In What We Make Together.

8 mins

Long Huynh

Co-founder and managing director of Chuon Chuon Kim Kindergarten

9 mins

Joseph Javier

Ultimately, Architecture Should Transform You And Your Paradigms. This Transformation Comes From The Positively Disruptive Effect Of Designed Environments.

7 mins

Hiroyuki Oki

Hiroyuki Oki

6 mins

Hufton + Crow

The British architectural photography duo proves that working with a second opinion makes for a better end product

7 mins

Ketsiree Wong Wan

A pragmatic and no-nonsense approach informs the work of this architectural photographer who has shot for some of Thailand’s best and brightest architectural studios

5 mins

Dulux Professional at Conex 2017

When you have your own Colour Prize at the World Architecture Festival (WAF), designers know you’re serious about paints and coatings.

1 min

A Temple for Tapas

Neri&Hu reference Fort San Pedro and the Queen City’s old churches for Pig & Palm, Cebu’s hippest bar and restaurant.

4 mins

Bread and Bitters

Two unlikely sister establishments, a bakery-café and a cocktail bar, channel Paris and New York in Kuala Lumpur’s ritzy Damansara district.

4 mins

Confluence

The Philippine Pavilion at the 16th Venice Biennale is a meeting of two major forces shaping our built environment today

2 mins

The Sane Thing To Do

Something’s happened to hard-nosed businessman and architect Ong Tze Boon, who now uses the L-word and talks about making the world a better place

10+ mins

Manila In Mind

BluPrint interviews the proponents of Harvard Graduate School of Design and AECOM’s Manila: Future Habitations

10 mins

It's Her House

RT+Q Architects’ House with Bridges in Singapore is chockfull of delightful surprises, quirky spaces, and winsome charm—and therein lies the harm

7 mins

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BluPrint is the definitive authority for Architecture and Design in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. It heralds the best and most relevant design projects, products, technologies, and solutions to continuously inspire the design community across market segments.