Refined Restraint

Don Lino exercises discipline in crafting a tapestry of old stone onto a renewed contemporary home.

Syncopated Spaces

Malaysian architect Fabian Tan varies ceiling heights in a narrow terrace house to make the interiors live and breathe, and connect areas to one another.

The Aphoristic Architect

If one accepts ours is a profession predicated on verities and truth more than skill and technique, it might be helpful for every architect to write a personal bible of strategic references and objectives.

Gillages

Tad Ermitaño concretizes design improv at the margins of society with his Muhon pieces for the Venice Architecture Biennale.

A Tale of Ten Years

To narrate the shop’s story for their 10th anniversary, MOs Design taps Electrolychee—a duo with a decade of its own worth celebrating.

Form Follows Void

Through a design development process developed by the firm, Buensalido+Architects shapes the Polygon House to fit its owners like a glove.

Unboxing

CRL Designs decks out a decade-old home with more than a thousand art toys and sneakers.

Gesamt Kunst Werk

Design Systems crafts a total design package—architecture, interior design, and branding strategy—to create the unforgettable TUVE Hotel in Hong Kong.

Home Improvement

After conservation and some snooping for its collection, Casa Gorordo Museum reopens and invites us home.

Clean Sweep

Dysons push for better cleaning methods in Southeast Asia is as much about changing mindsets as it is upgrading the power of its motors

And A Half

The Seeds Of Innovation Thrive In Times Of Danger Without Danger, There Is No Risk. Without Risk, There Is No Need To Change.

Manila: Future Habitations Now On View

Proposals from Manila Studio 2018 by Harvard GSD and AECOM are exhibited in Intramuros

Maria Cynthia y. Funk

Bringing Harmony At All Levels: The Essence Of Architecture Is The Creation Of A Compassionate Society.

Daring To Design Something Different Leads To Discoveries.

As a businessman, my first goal is to offer products with designs that go beyond function and beauty.

Social Architecture - An Architecture That Matters

Architecture is an increasingly vital part of human civilization, but architects find themselves swept along with the currents of societal change instead of being drivers.

Life-Centric Architecture

All architecture is aspirational and every building a promise of a better life. This is why our people strive to innovate, mindful that the drawings we produce in our studios might one day become places that will live in the memories of those whose names we wouldnt know, whose stories we might not hear, but whose lives we would nevertheless affect.

Multifunction Printing Redefined

Dan Lichauco shares how the HP DesignJet T830 and its mobile printing capabilities fit the firm’s design process and workflow—whether onsite or off.

Who We Are, Where We Live

In desperate need of repair and restoration, the century-old Casa Sanson y Montinola in Jaro stands as a reminder of the affluent lifestyle of the migrant Ilonggo elite.

Provenance and Patina

Having transitioned from young gun to sought after mentor, Buck Sia is set to continue a lineage of design.

Italian Contract

Furnitalia opens the local market to Calligaris Contract, which offers clients and designers furniture customization services and after sales support for hospitality, commercial, and institutional projects.

Renovating A National Artist

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

Form Follows Family Tradition

A couple’s desire to bring their kids up with family and Asian values shapes a modern home in Manila

When Form Follows Beauty

RT+Q’s reclusive Pakubuwono House in Jakarta manifests beauty in polar opposites: the simple and the extravagant, the private and the public, the functional and the impractical

O by Joey Yupangco

Yupangco began tinkering with the idea of designing a round house for himself around the time that he let go of his studio space and decided to work from home.

Form Follows Privacy

BAAD Studio designs an enclosed open house with a mind to promoting wellness and nudging family members closer to each other and nature

Aldo By Tina Periquet

The idea is a box within a shed—a house within a shed.

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.

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.

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.

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.