In a small Osaka district where houses, factories and buildings coexist without real harmony, architect Kenji Ido of Ido, Kenji Architectural Studio, discovered a way to invite the light. By Thomas Tran.
Undeterred by the collapse of Australian fashion labels Lisa Ho and Collette Dinnigan, Sydney designer Dion Lee recently opened his first boutique at the Strand Arcade – but not without challenges. Writes Thomas Tran.
Amidst the trend making, fashion forward, design savvy citizens, London is a hard city to make an impression. South Place Hotel, as Thomas Tran discovers, is a new variety of hybrid hospitality straddling the line of gallery, restaurant and meeting place.