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.

Asylum’s second store for skincare brand Aesop is a meditation on Singapore’s relationship with land that pairs textural contrast and carefully calibrated lighting to a maximum impact.

The retro charm of 1960s Hong Kong is given a fresh contemporary spirit at SIXA restaurant by Steve Leung Hospitality.

What’s on the agenda in Bangkok on 14 and 15 November? Best practice, the latest products, thought leadership and strategies for those in the real estate sector. Indesign Media will be on the ground as Media Partner and Chairperson for this first Asian edition of the Summit.