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Snapshot, Helsinki
From the air, the coast of Finland looks like smashed glass. Like the interior, which is smattered with lakes and forest, it seems half land, half water. It is a coast of peninsulas and islands...
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Lozano-Hemmers electronic life
On show at The Museum of Contemporary Art until 12 February Lozano-Hemmer is one of the world’s best-known electronic artists. A Mexican-Canadian, he first attracted global attention for his highly...
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Mission Hills Volcanic Mineral Springs and Spa
A new spa destination has just been completed on the northern coast of China’s Hainan Island and it’s set on the largest natural springs reserve in the region covering an incredible 950,000sq ft!...
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Genuine and True Houses
The notion of house-as-home understands the home as an experiential phenomenon focussed first on the body as the primary source of experience, and place as the other key source of experience – with...
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Muuto Celebrating 5 years!
Muuto has be a great player in the Scandinavian design scene over the past 5 years. With an MBA background and previous experience as strategy consultants, founder Peter Bonnén and Kristian Byrge...
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Sultry scene change
Vanda Crescent, Singapore is an elegant renovation and addition of a tropical dwelling. The double height building with timber screens features a V shaped roof with large shady overhangs and a...
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Natural Floorcovering Centres
Since 1968, Natural Floorcovering Centres have searched the world to source Australia’s largest range of woven natural floor coverings. From India and Africa, to Vietnam to China- Natural Floor...
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Meeting the people behind Secret Gardens
What does your company supply? Secret Gardens is passionate about building beautiful gardens for our clients to enjoy, which will look great today but even better tomorrow. This requires great design,...
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Habitus loves… ceramics
Stones and bark Designed by: Bridget Bodenham Why we love it: Soft shapes and organic forms make these quirky handmade ceramic utensils irresistible. Where you can get it:...
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Breathing Architecture
During 2011 WOHA has started to gain recognition for their green practices and distinctive approach to making commercial buildings. This year they also received the renowned Lubetkin Prize, awarded by...
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Light-filled TT Apartment in Singapore
To live in one of Singapore’s public housing apartments requires a certain state of mind. Juggling space (or lack there of), privacy and regulation are only some of the factors you face when you own a...
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Indoor Vertical Garden
Above: Living room walls lined with triple volume planting. When Richard Wong and Clara Yue engaged Chang Yong Ter to design their new house just behind Orchard Road, Singapore’s premier shopping belt,...
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Fashioning Fabric – Grace Tan
With her refreshing approach to fashion design, Grace Tan tests the limits of the fashion industry in Singapore as she stitches up her version of ‘anti-fashion’. By using abstract notions such as the...
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A Home built around Gatherings and a Rain Tree
Its magnificence could not be ignored, and it would be a shame to do so, so the architects have embraced the historic feature. “Its presence is ingrained within the very architecture of the house...
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Theatrical Apartment in Little India
Home, for Colin and Joy Seah, needed to be a retreat from the city and a very busy work schedule. Jointly running the spatial-design practice, Ministry of Design (MOD), the Seahs wanted to be in the...
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HOMES IN THE SKY
Back in 2002, Renzo Piano played the regulations like…well, a piano. His wonderful Aurora Place in Sydney got the better of gross floor area limits by creating winter gardens with electronically...
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From Singapore to London: De Vere Gardens Flat
The brief, for London and Singapore based architect firm VW+BS, was to create a space that was “as flexible a space as possible that could accommodate a variety of functions”. For at any time there...
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Spatial Mystery: Nassim Road House, Singapore
At a glance it is clear to see that these two houses on Nassim Road in Singapore come from the same family, but in many ways they act out a fascinating narrative, like two sisters with alarmingly...
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Why Design an L-Shaped House?
Responding to its challenging topography and site context in Singapore’s undulating Caldecott Hills, DP Architects has broken the house down into layers of terraces or “pavilions”. In order to...
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Skye Jefferys Explores the World, Through Both Art and Her Life
Some artists have become known for their use of certain colours (Yves Klein Blue can’t help but come to mind). Some artists however, become known for their use of many colours, for their exquisite...
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