Architect Damith Premathilake has designed a 976m² holiday home for his family in the upcountry dry zone region of Sri Lanka about 2km away from the Diyathalawa military training school. Perched atop a cliff…
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Chris Lee of Serie Architects on the non-negotiable aspects of designing Asia’s first high-rise state courtrooms in Singapore, sustainability and competitions
What is common between Dubai’s Jameel Arts Centre and the new State Courts towers (above; photo: Finbarr Fallon) in Singapore? While the former is a poetic rendition of a solitary cultural institution sitting along…
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Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects converts former brick brewery warehouse into contemporary art museum in Japan’s Hirosaki city
Atelier Tsuyoshi Tane Architects (ATTA) has designed the recently-opened Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art (Hirosaki MOCA), located in northern Japan’s western Aomori Prefecture. The city is known for being the largest producer of apples…
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Guallart Architects wins post-covid housing competition for China’s new Xiong’an city
Spanish practice Guallart Architects, founded by Vicente Guallart, chief architect of the city of Barcelona, has won the international competition to design a mixed-use community in the new city of Xiong’an in China. The…
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Aidia Studio to design 25 luxury pods with collapsible shells in Abu Dhabi’s Empty Quarter desert
Mexican architecture firm, Aidia Studio, has been commissioned to design a complex of 25 luxury hotel pods with collapsible shells, located in the Rub’ al Khali Desert, also knows as the Empty Quarter in…
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TEAM55667788 designs beauty clinic in South Korea that focuses on both cultural and spatial experiences
The belief that a well-designed space can heal you, Korean practice TEAM55667788 has designed the interiors of a 220m² skincare clinic for ATOP Beauty Group in Seoul’s Gangnam-Gu in South Korea, that commissioned the…
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Nathan Yong: We need to augment our Singapore design brand with better research and quality
Nathan Yong is one of the brightest Singapore design talents to have made an international mark. He won the President’s Design Award Designer of the Year 2008 for his outstanding contribution to Singapore’s design…