Architecture
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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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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 min |
Volume 3 2019
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Magis Homes Steel By Eduardo Calma
Ed Calma is one of the country’s best Modernist architects.
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Volume 3 2019
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Lario By Dominic Galicia
Lario is a play on the Spanish word, ladrillo, which means ‘brick.’
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Volume 3 2019
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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 min |
Special issue Issue 2, 2018
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Long Huynh
Co-founder and managing director of Chuon Chuon Kim Kindergarten
9 min |
Special issue Issue 2, 2018
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Joseph Javier
Ultimately, Architecture Should Transform You And Your Paradigms. This Transformation Comes From The Positively Disruptive Effect Of Designed Environments.
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Special issue Issue 2, 2018
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Hiroyuki Oki
Hiroyuki Oki
6 min |
Special Issue 1 2018
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Hufton + Crow
The British architectural photography duo proves that working with a second opinion makes for a better end product
7 min |
Special Issue 1 2018
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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 min |
Special Issue 1 2018
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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.
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June 2017
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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.
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June 2017
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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.
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June 2017
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Confluence
The Philippine Pavilion at the 16th Venice Biennale is a meeting of two major forces shaping our built environment today
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May 2018
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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
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May 2018
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Manila In Mind
BluPrint interviews the proponents of Harvard Graduate School of Design and AECOM’s Manila: Future Habitations
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May 2018
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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 min |
May 2018
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Roots And Shoots
Architectural flora maestros VTN Architects harness the strength of bamboo to create a new branch of architectural identity for Vietnam
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May 2018
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Color Factory
Sancal doesn’t need to yap about company history and design ethos— walls do all the talking for them.
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March 2017
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Rising Sun
Japanese-owned Okada Manila, an integrated resort and casino development inspired by the Manila Bay sunset, rises in Entertainment City, Parañaque.
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March 2017
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Bent Space
Buck Sia takes simple massing out for a spin in a residence that constantly surprises its owner.
3 min |
March 2017
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There/Not There
The new Silverlens Galleries by Anna Sy impresses then relinquishes our attention to the show.
3 min |
March 2017
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Pageturner
Kuala Lumpur’s Hotel Journal is a modern yet nostalgic narrative of culture and community.
6 min |
March 2017
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Humanizing The High-Rise
Most discussions on skyscrapers focus on their iconography, symbolism, and how they function as ‘objects’ within the city—and that’s a mistake.
4 min |
October 2017
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Compact In The City
Tan Tik Lam’s problem-solving skills and a homeowner’s pragmatism meet in a 120-square-meter family house in a dense city neighborhood.
3 min |
October 2017
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Singular
Singapore firm RT+Q Architects carves out breathing spaces from the sides of a terrace house to make it feel like a breezy single-detached residence.
4 min |
October 2017
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Unsinkable Spirit
Because of its diminished state, a sunken shrine in Cabetican, Bacolor, offers a powerful space laden with new meaning for communing with the divine.
5 min |
October 2017
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Image Building
While the effects that architecture has on photography continue to be nuanced at least within the confines of the framed image, the impact of the latter upon the former is actually more far reaching than the younger practice is given credit for
7 min |
Special Issue 1 2018
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Architecture In The Age Of Instagram
When the double tap becomes the coveted outcome of design
3 min |
Special Issue 1 2018
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Tom Epperson
Photographer Jaime Rapi, Jr. sits down with his long-time mentor and friend for a conversation on career beginnings, the exacting art of depicting space, and what it takes to succeed in the business of architectural photography
7 min |