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Amanda Harkness explores the dramatic interior narrative, combining the exotic and eclectic with the comfortable, of Wellington’s Naumi Studio Hotel by Material Creative.
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The Oval Partnership has unveiled its competition-winning masterplan proposal for the Shenzhen Bay Cultural Plaza in China, which is poised to become a world-class culture-led mixed-use development in the Bay Area.
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A recently built two-storey sanctuary Residing, PR Residence, lies in the south side of Jakarta for a young family of three. Upon entering the residence, walking along the outside corridor, the family is welcomed by a hint of their lush garden through an aperture on the wall. A perfect glimpse of what the humble abode has to offer to its residents.
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The designer highlights the design concept towards the interior of the building by removing the indoors and outdoors boundaries. As a result, the concept introduces open spaces in each floor and place them between functional rooms.
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POW Ideas designed Wildflower, a bar, restaurant, two private dining rooms and a kitchen, with a design concept inspired from the abstract imagery of flowers across various surfaces and materials, with both levels having contrasting personalities.
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Located along Jalan Bukit Bintang in Central Kuala Lumpur, YTL Headquarters brings together the entire suite of its departments, presenting a unified brand identity under one roof. Ministry of Design (MOD), the interior designer, aim to unify the corporation legacy of corporate professionalism with a future-forward attitude that embraces change.
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Passive Lab House by RAD+ar is built on a land plot in a housing complex in Greater Jakarta. Surrounded by lush greenery, the corner house stands as a monolithic block with its rough concrete façade. Taking a closer look, the robust frontage opens to an inner part of the house exterior—a terrace with a swimming pool and glass-cladded balcony.
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Blossom, an international Asian cuisine restaurant, is one of the many restaurants that sets foot in Marina Bay Sands Hotel, Singapore. As a 550-square-metre space, its footprint is rather miniscule compared to the vast and extensive lobby where it is located. Many restaurants in this case, whether in large hotel lobbies, shopping mall atria, food courts, or airports, are usually designed to be as open as possible. These restaurants are common to be only bounded by low partitions, which usually function to demarcate the dining space so that it does not interfere with the overall circulation.
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Rumpun at Happi Village is an accommodation in Janda Baik, a natural gateway located one-hour-drive from Kuala Lumpur. Spread across a five-hectare land with lush forest and gardens, the accommodation hosts a dozen of guestrooms and several facilities. Instead of using the natural setting as a backdrop, the living spaces are nested in it and so the two become inseparable.
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Situated in a dense neighbourhood in South Jakarta, H House stands on a corner land plot that measures only over 60 square metres. A plot with this size is tiny already, but the buildable area is even more limited as the city regulation requires setbacks from two sides of the land plot that are adjacent to the streets. As a result, H House can only utilise not more than 40 square metres of the land to erect the building.
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Although terraced house often represents a mass production for dwellings, there are many ways design intervention could give this building typology a more personalised touch. Bewboc House by Fabian Tan Architect displays an interesting design intervention to a young family’s terraced house in Kuala Lumpur.
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Recently, compact design has gained much popularity as a solution to a denser and more expensive space in cities around the world. In terms of functionality, compact design boasts its spatial flexibility—being able to cover multiple needs within one space. If most compact designs are usually applied for residential buildings, the recently finished Deloitte Center for the Edge (Asia Pacific) office in Singapore explores the possibilities of this design approach for a shared space.
