Hong Kong-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) OneSky Centre is the city’s biggest childcare centre that provides free education to children from underprivileged backgrounds. Recently, it tasked New York- and Hong Kong-based award-winning practice Avoid Obvious,…
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Community architecture Education Interiors
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F&B Hotel design Interiors Travel
New York firm AvroKo designs two artistic F&B concepts for The Opposite House in Beijing’s Sanlitun district
New York-headquartered design-and-concept firm AvroKO has designed two new eateries for The Opposite House hotel in Beijing. Located in the upscale and vibrant Sanlitun district, the artistic hotel was designed by Kengo Kuma in…
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Architecture Art Museums
Vermilion Zhou Design Group transforms former Victorian villa in Beijing into pared-down pristine white Song Art Museum
Song Art Museum designed by Vermilion Zhou Design Group is essentially an “art container”, with “art” as the mainstay and “container” as the supplement. It transforms everything into geometry and purity and takes “non-action”…
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Architecture Residential design
Boxy holiday residence at the foot of the valley in Vietnam by Tropical Space offers panoramic views from all three floors
Tam Dao villa by Vietnam-based practice Tropical Space is a vacation villa located in a valley at the foot of the mountain in Tam Dao town, a hill resort in northern Vietnam that was established by the…
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Architecture Exhibition Rural architecture Sustainable design
Bijoy Jain’s Studio Mumbai awarded the 2020 Alvar Aalto Medal
The 14th Alvar Aalto Medal has been awarded to the Indian architecture practice Studio Mumbai and its founding director Bijoy Jain. The award founded in 1967 to celebrate the legacy of the Finnish architect Alvar…
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Architecture Community architecture Culture Museums
M+ Museum by Herzog & de Meuron set to open in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District in late 2021
The construction of Hong Kong’s M+ Museum has been completed and it’s set to open to the public later this year. Designed by a global team of the world-renowned architecture firm Herzog & de…
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Design Furniture design Interiors Office design
T4Design repurposes building materials to create flexible and compact office space in Vietnam
Vietnam-based architect Mamoru Maeda believes that the future challenges in spatial design will be vastly influenced by two factors – imagination and regeneration. He demonstrates this in his own atelier – a small space,…