How Digital Transformation in The Multi-Family Sector can Facilitate a Green Transition
The emergence of smart buildings, which have been designed to integrate the latest technologies such as smart access and cloud-based property management solutions, has opened the door to new ways of operating multi-family assets. All signs now point to the smart access revolution making its arrival on the multi-family residential stage.
Flowcrete Car Park at Victoria Dockside, K11 Musea, TST
Flowcrete Hong Kong supplied flooring solutions for several areas of the Victoria Docklands development. The Deckshield range was chosen for the anticipated high level of traffic in the car park.
MAGIC PLACE|Reshaping the Future Imagination of Office Life
The MAGIC PLACE Office-Life Experience Hall is located in Building 10 of Xinyefang, Jing'an District, Shanghai, a historical building with a 70-year legacy. This new corporate headquarters and brand showroom has been crafted by MAGIC PLACE in collaboration with designer Cui Shu. Serving as a key platform for MAGIC PLACE, it offers a multifaceted space that merges cultural experiences, aesthetic enjoyment, artistic appreciation, and product co-creation. With years of practical experience and deep insights in office environment design, Cui Shu has designed a multifunctional, composite social space that harmoniously blends work with an artistic lifestyle, offering a fresh experience to the public.
Beyond the Kitchen: Discovering the Enchanting Residence of an Acclaimed Chef from Asia’s Top 50 Restaurants
In the ambience of Mid-Century, integrating the distinctive passions of the couple owners, building an enjoyable lifestyle fulfilling their daily needs
Interior Designer, More Than Just A Decorator
When it comes to creating a beautiful and neat space arrangement, an interior designer is the right person for the job. Their role is more than just that of a decorator.
AIAISC'24 - Foundations for Sustainable Design Excellence
The AIA International Conference 2024 (AIAISC'24) is a 3-day virtual conference scheduled to take place from March 14 to 16, 2024. The conference will delve into the theme of "Decarbonizing Construction: From Material Production to Preservative Adaptive Reuse."
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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.
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In the recent years, adaptive reuse has become one of the most effective approaches in keeping unoccupied buildings with historic values from being demolished. By bringing new functions and purposes, aged buildings can gain new lives and at the same time offer shared memories and perspectives to the community. Generally, adaptive reuse principle is to leave a substantial portion of the historical significance intact while adding new elements to accommodate new purposes.
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Of a few places one could safely retreat and relax in this pandemic time is one’s own abode. Many has since reconsidered and rethought their perspective of what an ideal home should be. Among many criteria of an ideal home expected by many homeowners today, having an inner garden or courtyard is on the top list. Completed in 2020, the Raffles House by eben is an ideal example of house with courtyards that promotes the dwellers’ well-being in this current situation.
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In the recent years, e-commerce has been disrupting the operations of physical retail spaces, especially malls and department stores. But even if many people now prefer to shop through their handheld screens, the culture of hanging and dining out with others prevails. This makes way to new developments of retail spaces, such as a lifestyle mall that is smaller in size and provides more dining experience and entertainment. These smaller spaces that contain only more or less a dozen curated outlets have been gaining popularity and popped up in many cities.
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Among the typical home office buildings in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, the office of Mantab Group stands quite prominently thanks to its gleaming gold-coloured façade. Hovering over the second floor of the building, the metallic façade wraps the front-facing part of the building with its folded surface. Yet, in contrast with the grandiose façade, a modest and small timber finished box figure stands next to it, marking the entrance to the office.
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Situated next to the Yishun Pond, Tzu Chi Humanistic Youth Centre is recently opened to facilitate one of the organisation’s missions to provide supplementary education for the Singapore’s young generations. As a multipurpose public building, this youth centre houses facilities such as a function hall, classrooms, studios and workshops, study rooms, F&B outlets and other congregational spaces for members and visitors to meet and interact.