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The Sound Cave
Legendary Toyo Ito puts life into the National Taichung Theater as he anatomises the entire fluid structure and breathes soul into it.
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Issue 97
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Principles Of Placemaking
Kerry Hotel Hong Kong is more than just a hospitality project, but an iconic landmark that highlights the importance of integration between architecture and the surrounding community.
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Issue 99
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Consonant Construction
Closed and exposed, the Concord House is a testament of love for concrete and a creative freedom to design.
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Issue 95
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Captured Horizon
A site-inspired scheme reflects an architect’s original take on a detached dwelling in the Negeri Sembilan countryside.
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Issue 111
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In the Shadows
Ennobling the natural geographic landscape and a simple inexpensive material, Architect Jean Verville creates an expressive form in the midst of a hemlock forest.
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Issue 94
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Brick Boxing
A brick building gives a Vietnamese artist a dedicated place for creating clay sculptures and potteries.
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Issue 94
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Intelligent Integration
CannonDesign + NEUF architect(e)s lifts the veil on Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), the largest healthcare construction project in North America.
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Issue 95
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A Renewed Philosophy
A private residence in India unites traditional and modernity with its use of concrete, natural materials and the fundamentals of Vaastu Shastra.
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Issue 95
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Designed For Learning
Architecture should not be side-lined when it comes to educational institutions. It can even help improve student performance.
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Issue 104
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Play At Work
Shanghai has an exuberant new co-work venue: a collaboration between Linehouse and the WeWork in house design team, WeWork Weihai Lu melds history with modernity, opulence with tactility, and fiction with function.
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Issue 98
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Colonial Simplicity
This 2,400-square-foot café, filled with clean lines, natural textures and a pop of colours, takes full advantage of its historic building structure.
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Issue 98
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Architecture For The Silver Generation
Many Asian countries are now grappling with the “silver tsunami” coming their way. What role does design have in this?
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Issue 107
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Dramatic Expression
Redefining the conventional century-old mansions in Toronto’s most notable historic neighbourhood, Batay-Csorba Architects creates a creative space that invokes imagination and drama.
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Issue 99
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Spatial Symphony
Architecture firm RT+Q designs a trio of houses that reads like siblings. While sharing similar traits, the ‘Case Study Houses’ also offer distinct personalities and experiences articulated through unique spatial and material dynamics.
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Issue 99
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Rhythmic Repetition
The Headquarters of Société Privée de Gérance (SPG) in Geneva receives a new facelift, a rhythmic envelope that changes the looks of its dated façade.
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Issue 99
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Hospitality At Home
THIS SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE IS DESIGNED TO WELCOME AND HOST FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
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Issue 105
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Waste Not, Want Not
A design studio from Canada is hoping to change the way we look at unused spaces along a lane or alley.
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Issue 105
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Putting The Architect In Arch Tech
The digital revolution is changing the world as we know it. How can Architecture keep up with the shift?
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Issue 105
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Tomorrowland
Influenced by the Industrial Revolution and Information Age, this mixed-use space in Shanghai brings an IT-shaped future world into the present.
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Issue 105
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A Life Inspired
A passion for living is what motivates Chinese designer Lea Chen in everything she does.
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Issue 105
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Live, Work and Play
Funan – Capitaland has taken a bold step in creating a lifestyle destination and landmark project to cater for the tech savvy and socially astute public in the heart of Singapore’s CBD.
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Issue 96
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The Honest Home
The Pallet House is a uniformed space that combines the beauty of up-cycling, carpenter’s artistry and creative ideas.
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Issue 96
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Hailing Hybrids
SingaPlural 2019 places under the microscope the importance of multidisciplinary collaborations.
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Issue 108
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What Lies Beneath
It doesn’t look like much but this project has the potential to become a game-changer: Replacing construction steel with a bamboo fibre composite material as reinforcement in concrete. The Alternative Construction Materials team at the Future Cities Laboratory of the Singapore-ETH Centre is proposing this.
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Issue 108
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How To Be Different
Aesop has opened its first store in Penang, Malaysia. Its Retail Architectural Manager Denise Neri shares about its design inspiration and how the Australian brand conceptualises each one to be unique.
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Issue 108
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Home And Office
Two designers share their best practices when it comes to shaping the interiors of these two different spaces.
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Issue 108
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Weather The Wall
A new coating technology replicates natural stone textures in seconds.
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Issue 106
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Sign Language
This commercial display offers a spectacular blank canvas for media of every nature.
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Issue 106
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Under One Roof
Experience all that this switches and systems company has to offer in a single location.
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Issue 106
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Can You See It?
Watch where you are going or you might just walk into this building.
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