As home prices continue to escalate in the world’s most expensive property market, fear of the ability to provide a basic shelter over one’s head continues to grow, and the provision of sufficient affordable housing has been one of the major challenges faced by the government of Hong Kong today. While the soaring demand for […]
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CL: WOHA won the Design of the Year at the President’s Design Award last night (17 July 2018) for Oasia Hotel Downtown, so it was interesting to see you referencing their project in your talk this morning. TB: That is wonderful to hear and very well deserved. WOHA’s work is inspiring and gives the world a sense […]
‘Suryamzhu’ Ray of Light (RoL) House is a single-storey, 520-square-metre house, built on an approximately 1,000-square-metre site in a suburban setting of Bukit Gasing, Petaling Jaya. Window House, on the other hand, is a three-storey, 900-square-metre house, built on a hillside plot of around 800 square metres, located on the fringes of a reserved forest […]
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The beauty of Huaku Sky Garden lies in the twin towers’ architecture that seems at once delicate (due to their slim forms) and strong in the symmetrical structural frame (referencing traditional Chinese latticed screens) done in multiple scales, the repetition articulating the structural delight. The project’s location at the base of the foothills of Yangming […]
A five-minute walk from the beach, Ccasa Hostel is the first hostel in Nha Trang, Vietnam that was built from shipping containers. What immediately draws the eye are the colourful repurposed steel containers that lend a charming vibe to the establishment. In Spanish, casa means home, and Ccasa (pronounced as C-casa) is short for Container Casa—a container […]
ARTISTS RETREAT The clients—contemporary Sri Lankan artist JC Ratnayake and his wife, Tanuja, a printmaker—wanted a multifunctional space that would serve as a residence, work space, art storage and gallery. The budget was low; hence the brief called for a contextual design with cost-effective measures that would reflect their simple lifestyle and aesthetic sensibility. Situated […]
The plot of the house is relatively narrow, 16 metres (length) by 4.1 metres (width), a typical size for local houses. Hanoi’s tube house floor plan is designed to maximise the number of rooms by using 100 per cent of the built-up area. Here, buildings are constructed next to each other, wall to wall, with […]
With over 7.3 million permanent inhabitants (as of May 2018), of which almost 4 million live in urban areas, Hanoi is second only to Ho Chi Minh City as the largest and most dynamic housing market in Vietnam. The 12 central districts are home to 3.7 million people (Statistical Office, 2018). This is where the […]
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HOMEGROWN NEIGHBOURHOODS The Kule family lives in a small brick house on a hillside in the suburbs of Mumbai. They are part of a majority of Mumbaikars who reside in settlements officially designated as ‘slum areas’. The Kules belong to a farmers’ caste from the Konkan, a region that stretches for hundreds of kilometres from […]
In conjunction with Earth Day 2018, the World Green Building Council’s report Doing Right by Planet and People: The Business Case for Health and Wellbeing in Green Building urges companies to make ecological improvements. It highlights tangible economic benefits of Green building and showcases improved occupant satisfaction when firms implement new health, well-being and productivity […]
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“Every organisation, from the Smithsonian to the government of Quebec and local organisations in Rome, are holding meaningful events that encompass the Earth Day spirit—global reach, local action,” said Kathleen Roger, president of Earth Day Network, the organisation that coordinates Earth Day events worldwide. Earth Day Network relaunched its Billion Acts of Green campaign in […]
The World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) and China Green Building Council (China GBC) have announced a partnership to collaborate efforts to increase Green buildings around the world and reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. This partnership is significant as China is the largest building construction market in the world, with up to 2 billion square metres […]
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