Architecture
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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
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Volume 4 2019
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The Office Of New Life Stories
D-Associates Architect’s office building in Jakarta is just how principals Gregorius Yolodi and Maria Rosantina want it— green, creative, and nurturing—just as they want their team to be
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Volume 4 2019
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Stark Beauty
When you’ve got great bones designed by Park + Associates, the structure should be the architecture
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Volume 4 2019
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Sunday's Best
Willis Kusuma’s multi-functional Mister Sunday elevates the Jakarta café scene with the timelessness and formal honesty of concrete
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Volume 4 2019
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Brut Force
Raw concrete is experiencing a renaissance, but how compatible is it with tropical weather? Jakarta-based architect and frequent concrete user Willis Kusuma responds
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Volume 4 2019
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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
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Special Issue 2
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People Obssessed With Design
Park + Associates: Crafting architecture with good bones and spaces that resonate with individuals
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Special Issue 2
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Firm Follows Feeling
Bangkok-based landscape architecture firm P Landscape emphasizes the human experience and feeling through contemporary integration of art, culture, and ecology
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Special Issue 2
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Tried and Tested
WAF and INSIDE multi-awardee Hypothesis’ researchintensive approach produces complete design solutions that are anything but formulaic
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Special Issue 2
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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
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Special Issue 2
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Shaped For Pleasure
Sharing the same core values with the client, DEQA Design Collaborative designs a house that is perfectly shaped for their lifestyle
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Volume 3 2019
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Steel by Eduardo Calma
MAGIS HOMES
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Volume 3 2019
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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
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Volume 3 2019
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Natural Flow
Jakarta-based studio Nataneka Arsitek embraces natural movement within a crisp, modernist package
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Volume 3 2019
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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
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Volume 3 2019
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Renovating A National Artist
By respecting its original program, Rebecca Plaza revives a Leandro Locsin house to last another fifty years
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Volume 3 2019
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Form Follows Family Tradition
A couple’s desire to bring their kids up with family and Asian values shapes a modern home in Manila
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Volume 3 2019
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Form Follows Privacy
One feels wholly unwelcome walking down this street in Barangay Don Manuel in Quezon City.
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Volume 3 2019
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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
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Volume 3 2019
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Marc Go
A meandering road leads this design graduate from architecture to photography and back again
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Special Issue 1 2018
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Setting Stone
Escuela Taller’s restoration of the Paco Park ossuary sets the tone for the full conservation program of the national park.
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May 2018
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Erick Yambao
Erick Yambao is the landscape architect who founded Plontur, and serves as its head and design director. For him, design is a medium to evoke feelings, challenge mindsets, test theories, and set new standards. Through landscapes, he wants to give spaces an identity that shapes not just the way people move, but also the way they live and think. Yambao has worked on many notable residential, institutional, and commercial projects that have been featured in different books, magazines, and blogs.
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Special Issue 1 2019
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Boe Riccio
What is your brand of style?
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Special Issue 1 2019
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Gino Santos
Gino Santos is one of the youngest commercial, TV, and film directors in the Philippines. His knowledge of—and passion for—film at such a young age got him to be chosen as the delegate of the Philippines for the Motion Picture Association Conference in China. He has directed numerous short films that have captured the attention of both local and international audiences. He started directing his first full length feature "The Animals" when he was 22 for the Cinemalaya Film Festival.
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Special Issue 1 2019
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Nico Faustino
Nico Faustino is multi-cam TV and live director. He started directing professionally at the age of 22. Since then, he has been mastering his craft and adding a range of genres, as well as directing styles. He also does live stage directing and TV directing for beauty pageants, both locally and internationally. Recently he co-produced a number of advocacy films that have been shown in schools and other Filipino communities in Dubai and other Asian countries.
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Special Issue 1 2019
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Miko Aspiras
Miko Aspiras started to create confections at age 11.
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Special Issue 1 2019
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Ana Verayo
In the world of art, new forms are created to express new emotions, shape new beliefs, and usher in a new set of ideologies.
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Special Issue 1 2019
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Time For Art
From Basel to Miami, the annual Audemars Piguet Art Commission supports contemporary artists for three years in a row.
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October 2017
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Art Lit
Malaysian architect and light artist Jun Ong blazes a trail across Southeast Asia.
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October 2017
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Primordial Delight
There is nothing token about passive cooling in Formwerkz partner Gwen Tan’s terrace house, which enjoys fresh air from end to end and bottom-up.
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