Denmark-headquartered lighting brand Astep may have only been around since 2014, but its illustrious Italian design pedigree spans three generations. And its high-end lighting products combine tradition and innovation.

The Cassina archives contain furniture dating back more than a century, sitting cohesively alongside innovations from today’s design leaders. The thread that binds them is a conscious and futuristic design approach married with excellence.

Co-founder and Creative Director of SP01 Matt Lorrain talks us through the furniture brand’s latest collections, its evolving creative process, and future collabs.

It was formerly a school, then an office. Today it is Hmlet Cantonment, the largest facility of Asia’s fastest-growing co-living operator that let the traces of the building’s history be its defining design feature.

Next week, an exhibition of the five shortlisted designs in the Founders’ Memorial competition begins a two-month tour of the island, with the public invited to choose their favourite ahead of the jury’s final selection.

Expertly straddling tradition and modernity, Vilhelm Lauritzen designed the VL Ring Crown light in the 1940s with a keen eye for practicality as well as beauty. Now Louis Poulsen has re-issued the design classic for contemporary times.

They’d been empty for nearly a decade, but now their restoration has been recognised in the URA Architectural Heritage Awards 2019. Surbana Jurong Consultants and Asylum have resurrected a series of shophouses into the light-filled, community enhancing Temasek Shophouse.

 We are already living with the consequences of climate change. And climate change is an energy issue. We must rethink the way we live with energy. Schneider Electric Chairman and CEO Jean-Pascal Tricoire shares ways we can manage it better.