Kui, the ethnic people of Surin Province in northeastern Thailand have been elephant keepers for centuries. Elephants are considered family members, and living with elephants has been an inseparable part of their long heritage.…
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Architecture Building Materials Community architecture Rural architecture Sustainable design
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Sanjay Puri Architects designs sculptural office building in Chennai city with cantilevered cuboid volumes
Sanjay Puri Architects, led by its namesake founder, and assisted by architects Pooja Sampat and Kapil Merchant, has designed an office building called Akshaya 27 in the southern Indian city of Chennai. The sculptural…
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Architecture Residential design
An architect transforms a caretaker’s hut into a low footprint holiday home in the Sri Lankan hills
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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Architecture Community architecture Education Residential design Sustainable design Urban design
Bjarke Ingels designs sustainable floating housing units signalling new urban living and mobility solution
Globally-acclaimed architect Bjarke Ingels has been at the forefront of cutting-edge innovation when it comes to building sustainably. With projects spanning the world, his Copenhagen-based practice BIG is leading the discourse on climate change…
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Architecture Interviews Sustainable design
Trần Thị Ngụ Ngôn and Nguyễn Hải Long of Tropical Space share how Vietnam’s young architects embrace traditional materials to create modern architectural language
Founded in 2011 by Ho Chi Minh City-based architect couple Trần Thị Ngụ Ngôn and Nguyễn Hải Long, Tropical Space is an architectural practice that is known for addressing climate change through its work…
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Architecture Community architecture Sustainable design
Indonesia’s Aaksen Responsible Aarchitecture creates sustainable, prefab and modular home-office units equipped to withstand natural disasters
Led by architect Yanuar Pratama Firdaus, and assisted by Gea Sentanu, Azzahra Dartaman, Chandra Adhila, and Citra Aviany, Indonesia-based firm Aaksen Responsible Aarchitecture has designed AAND Sayana – a 35m² prefabricated modular home-office that…