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The people, places and ideas changing our cities one enclave at a time: The Scrap Yard is a small-but-potent commercial development on a back street in Auckland’s Grey Lynn.
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Andrew Barrie investigates Jasmax’s new Western Springs College and Ngā Puna o Waiōrea Campus and finds spatially exciting buildings at a dramatic scale but he wonders where all the ‘stuff’ has gone.
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Overlooking a sacred pā site, this Dunedin home by Mason and Wales Architects responds to its sweeping views and the needs of a growing family with considered planning and humble forms.
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No site visits are allowed at Metlifecare’s Gulf Rise innovative retirement living by Warren and Mahoney. But Chris Barton perseveres and is captivated by a space made in association with Boffa Miskell Landscape Architects to bring back the birds and the bees.
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Wellington-based architectural photographer Andy Spain shares his top five houses to shoot and revels in some favourite work stories.
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Located on a well-known world heritage site in Penang, the Edison George Town takes its place in a former Hokkien tycoon’s Anglo-Chinese mansion built in the early 20th century.
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In the northeastern part of Kuala Lumpur, real estate development with semi-detached houses were the norm for some twenty years ago. Although houses were built with quite a spacious outdoor area for each lot, the division of the outdoor and indoor area were apparent. Eleena Jamil Architect had the chance to renovate one of these units and create better connection of the house interior with its surrounding.
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The strong historical background makes PG Colomadu (Colomadu Sugar Cane Mill) plants in Karanganyar, Central Java, a cultural heritage. After stopping operation for about two decades, the plant was abandoned, and the building was degraded since there were no industrial activities. This prompted Kementrian BUMN (the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises) to revitalize the building by rebranding it to be “De Tjolomadoe”.
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In light of how public spaces enhance our experience of the cities, private developments have also started to contribute by way of extending their property, whether through urban design policies or simply as a function of the buildings on those plots.
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Nowadays, cafes have become a part of the everyday for almost everyone. Apart from gathering and eating, it is a place to indulge in social media activities or just to take a break from one’s daily routine. In a city like Jakarta, cafes are also a spot to escape from the heat. Therefore, café designs in the city place greater priority on spacious and comfortable air-conditioned indoors with little outdoor space.
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Two years ago, when MRT Jakarta and many of the now-opened public spaces in the city had not yet existed, the idea of hanging out and strolling in some parks was deemed peculiar. With most of the public parks in Jakarta being gated, rarely maintained and poorly lit in the evening, parks were not the place of choice for people to spend their time.
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Standing at 290 metres above street level, this mixed-used development is the tallest building in Singapore at the moment. With its location flanked by the heritage rows of shophouses in Tanjong Pagar, this skyscraper stands out prominently on an urban scale.
