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Urban Retreat
This apartment on the fringe of Orchard Road looks and feels like a luxurious sanctuary but with plenty of personal and bespoke touches
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Integrating Flexibility
This mixed-use commercial building in Ahmedabad, India, responds to the constraints of its environment and functional requirements
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Contemporary Craftsmanship Meets Luxury Heritage
Atelier Pendhapa collaborates with French textile powerhouse Métaphores to launch new furniture collection, AKAR
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Symbolic Gesture
Located in Sarfannguit, a cultural landscape in West Greenland and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2018, the Qaammat pavilion was designed and built by Swedish architect Konstantin Ikonomidis in cooperation with UNESCO and the Qeqqata Municipality
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Visionary Placemaker
Clint Nagata sets a new bar for excellence in hospitality design
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Virtue Of Living
Lucentia Residences shed mundane modernity for an uplifting architecture of character, colour and serene communal living in a visionary Kuala Lumpur enclave
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Instinctive And Authentic Approach
Narisa C Watananun is an independent creative visual consultant who gets inspiration from the sensory experience of a space. Her work involves artistic visual directions and interior styling for established lifestyle retail, hospitality, F&B brands and private residences
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Contemporary Meets Classical
Traditional Chinese courtyard house gets a makeover to fit this family’s lifestyle needs
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Shaping A Brighter Future
Fresh new projects by Singaporean creatives unveiled at the Future Impact exhibition at Milan Design Week 2023, the world’s largest design event
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Reuse, Reduce, Recycle
The National University of Singapore walks the talk of sustainable design with the net-zero, low-carbon renovation of the School of Design and Environment 1 and 3
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Adopt And Adapt
Social responsibility and sustainability inform the design and construction of Luxembourg’s new postal and telecommunications headquarters
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kit of parts
Designed by SANAA, Sydney Modern heralds a new chapter for the city’s art scene with a fragmented datum that integrates art, topography and the surrounding landscaping
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cultural experience
New restaurant Yue Bai presents a contemporary expression of shi liao gastronomy and Chinese culture
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restorative retreat
Discover how Pritzker Prize laureate Shigeru Ban designed Shishi-Iwa House No.02, a unique wood and glass retreat built around nature in Karuizawa, Japan
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Promising Future
The National Design Centre’s New Exhibition Spotlights 3D Printing Using Plastic Waste.
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Keeping Paradise Beautiful
Alexis Dornier, the name behind some of Bali’s most stunning architecture shares his approach to modern, tropical design that pushes the boundaries of sustainable architecture.
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Pride Of The People
In its context-responsive design, the new TNB Platinum headquarters eschews the corporate tower archetype for ground-scaping offices of and for its working community.
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Contemporary Interpretation Of Traditional Architecture
Inspired by the iconic Beijing Palace Museum in the Forbidden City, the new Hong Kong Palace Museum was designed to house and display priceless national treasures.
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Thoughttul Furniture
Kernel bridges Singaporean furniture making with Japanese craftsmanship.
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Family Home With Just The Right Amount Of Privacy And Connectivity
Strategically placed see-through elements give this Bangkok family home just the right amount of privacy and connectivity.
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Why Seoul Is Poised To Be The New Focal Point Of The Asian Art Market
Why Seoul is poised to be the new focal point of the Asian art market.
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Home For The Masses Reinvented
Cubo offers stylish, low-cost and environmentally-friendly modular houses, inspired by bahay kubo or traditional bamboo huts found in the Philippines.
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Minimalist Home With Character
With is neutral colour palette and pared-down design, this family home in Bangkok was designed with tranquillity in mind. Yet it still manages to impress with a few standout elements.
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World's First 'Upcycled' High-Rise
The latest addition to the Sydney skyline, Quay Quarter Tower was designed to revitalise the business district.
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Keep Calm And Drink Tea
A Chiang Mai heritage estate gets new life as a teahouse and tea retail space.
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one with nature
At Ulaman Eco Luxury Resort, avant garde architecture converges with nature to show us what designing beautifully for a sustainable future can look like.
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Demonstrative Dynamism
ELTO Consultancy proposed a kinetically inspired design for the GTR and Teleport Offices which mimics the frenetic activities and energy of the digital control centre for ground handling services and its young crew
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The Perfect Ensemble
A great design comprises many parts that support one another to make up a unified whole
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A Powerful Tool
Memory is triggered by our senses—sight, sound, smell, taste and touch—and the way we use these senses to engage with our surroundings.
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Unobtrusive Luxury, Anyone?
A new era of luxury development has begun in Costa Rica with a light on land approach that ensures the protection of the land, its resources and people
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