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A brick envelope shapes life in Kerala
In Thrissur, India, LIJO.RENY.architects has wrapped a family home in a perforated brick envelope that moderates heat, encourages natural ventilation and creates a series of layered indoor and outdoor spaces.
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Re-imagining Bangkok’s urban landscape
A standout pavilion from this year’s Bangkok Design Week explores shade and light for people and place.
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Mangrove garden: Bean Buro reimagines corporate culture in Hong Kong
Bean Buro transforms a financial office into a biophilic workplace using local art, hospitality design and wellbeing-driven spaces.
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Tropical Space delivers an innovative office building in Ho Chi Minh City
Designed with commitment to sustainability and featuring the integration of solid clay bricks, Premier Office seamlessly blends into the urban fabric of Tan Binh district.
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Artyzen Singapore presents a fresh interpretation of urban sky villa
ONG&ONG and Nic Graham & Assoc . unveil a hotel experience paying homage to local heritage and tropical landscape in the middle of the bustling Orchard Road district.
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Dated ‘60s house renovated into a modern family home that embraces the great outdoors
Quod Architects designs an environmentally-sustainable ‘outdoor house’ fit for Singapore’s tropical climate, marrying nature and the man-made, present and future.
People
Gwen Tan on the art of living in the tropics
Gwen Tan is an architect with an illustrious career, designing homes that not only make a statement in their manipulation of form, but also in the way they respond to the owners, “adapting and evolving” over time.
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ip:li Architects Go Skyward In A Quest For Space
Elevated on columns and responding thoughtfully to its climate, this house by ip:li Architects won the Building of the Year accolade in the SIA Architectural Design Awards 2019.