The name 1500 Haus comes up from the worst case of flooding in January 2020 when the area was flooded up to 1500 millimetres inside the house.

Whilst providing privacy from the neighbouring properties, the brutalist entry facade of the villa was designed to give the user an element of intrigue and surprise when passing through the entry threshold.

Senior interior designer at Warren and Mahoney, Gabrielle Gatt, is a specialist in workplace strategy and design. She recently completed a graduate diploma in psychology focusing on organisational psychology, including workplace experience and wellbeing outcomes in unassigned workplaces.

Senior interior designer at Warren and Mahoney, Gabrielle Gatt, is a specialist in workplace strategy and design. She recently completed a graduate diploma in psychology focusing on organisational psychology, including workplace experience and wellbeing outcomes in unassigned workplaces.

When we think of health professionals, we consider doctors, nurses and psychologists. In the global quest for better understanding community health, design professionals have been plunged into the sphere of health and wellbeing.

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.

It’s smart to invest in a home office if you’re thinking of working from home long-term.

Recently, the trend of incorporating an edible garden in one’s living quarter has grown significantly. Be it in a kitchen’s corner with plenty of natural lighting or on the whole rooftop area, edible home garden is regarded as one of the easiest and most effective way to introduce sustainable living to the masses.

Normally, within an apartment unit or a house, there should be at least an enclosed room with a door separated from the rest of the unit’s interior. In a project named after the sole owner, Alex, Spacedge Designs challenges the need of a door, even the need of a separated room in the first place. “In a space for one, there is technically no need for doors within the flat,” says William Chan of Spacedge Designs.

A prototype of micro house developed by Aaksen Responsible Aarchitecture, AAND Sayana is designed to be fully assembled within three weeks.

In Singapore, it is not unusual to see rows of heritage shophouses transformed into boutique hotels, be it for backpackers or luxury travellers. Most of these hotels, however, were renovated with the approach to restore or uplift the shophouses’ original exterior as well as the interior, resulting in the ubiquitous, predictable impression when staying at one of these properties.

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 were 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. Parks, like those surrounding Monumen Nasional, were only popular on weekends or holidays, and people preferred to be in an air-conditioned mall, whiling their time away.

Sigit Kusumawijaya adalah seorang arsitek lulusan dari Universitas Indonesia dan finalis Penghargaan Pemuda Inspiratif dalam Satu Indonesia Award 2011 yang diselenggarakan oleh Astra Indonesia. Sebelum lulus Ia sempat menetap di Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia untuk melakukan kerja praktek pada sebuah perusahaan arsitektur T. R. Hamzah & Yeang yang dipimpin oleh salah seorang arsitek internasional, yaitu Ken Yeang. Setelah lulus, Sigit juga mendapat kesempatan untuk bekerja di Andramatin Architect sampai akhirnya memutuskan untuk melanjutkan pendidikan Master di TU Delft, Belanda, dengan jurusan Urbanism. Selain itu, Sigit juga sempat bekerja di sebuah konsultan Mei Architecten & Stedenbouwers BV, Rotterdam dan PT. MRT Jakarta setelah kembali dari negeri Belanda.