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Michael Drescher Q&A: Bringing the outside in with new apartment design

Michael Drescher Q&A: Bringing the outside in with new apartment design

DKO’s Interior Design Director on how to create community and specificity in interior design, and how apartment living is being reconceptualised.

Bespoke Habitat launches co-living apartments in Johor Bahru for cross-border employees

Bespoke Habitat launches co-living apartments in Johor Bahru for cross-border employees

The co-living haven is close to the CIQ checkpoint with prices starting from RM800.

This Singaporean designer’s home embraces Le Corbusier’s colour theory

This Singaporean designer’s home embraces Le Corbusier’s colour theory

SPARK’s director Wenhui Lim demonstrates how Brutalist building interiors can be successful upgraded into a colourful, light-filled home for creative self-expression and freedom.

“A multitude of uses contained within one skin”: Elenberg Fraser’s Melbourne Towers

“A multitude of uses contained within one skin”: Elenberg Fraser’s Melbourne Towers

At 380 Lonsdale Street in the Melbourne CBD, two towers are wrapped under one elegant architectural exterior. Meanwhile, a new laneway brings a rich mixture of public and private space to street level.

Pushing the possibilities of public housing

Pushing the possibilities of public housing

The homes designed by Tony Owen Partners are always interesting, always unique and are usually likely to spark an aspirational desire to live somewhere better.

This Koichi Takada apartment references its namesake through fluid, organic form

This Koichi Takada apartment references its namesake through fluid, organic form

Referencing both its pine tree namesake and the local surf culture, Koichi Takada Architect’s Norfolk is a 9 level apartment on the Burleigh Heads waterfront.

PMDL Adapts 1960s Tong Lau To Today’s Sensibilities

PMDL Adapts 1960s Tong Lau To Today’s Sensibilities

To demolish or to reuse? Considerations of yield, sustainability and neighbourhood character came into play when PMDL renovated a walk-up in Sheng Wan.

Eling Residences: A Hillside Silhouette In China By Safdie Architects

Eling Residences: A Hillside Silhouette In China By Safdie Architects

Safdie Architects’ latest multi-residential project brings a human scale to a grand hillside silhouette in Chongqing.

Safdie Architects Humanise Scale At Eling Residences

Safdie Architects Humanise Scale At Eling Residences

The Eling Residences project, Safdie Architects’ latest in China, is still colossal in scale and distinct in silhouette, but it is also a delightful demonstration of the firm’s commitment to humanising scale.

Make Architects Redefine The Block With The Luna

Make Architects Redefine The Block With The Luna

Printing blocks inspired Make Architects’ redesign for a proposed serviced apartment tower in Wan Chai. The Luna offers living spaces with abundant natural light, ventilation and views.

Shorefront Penang by RT+Q Brings A New Language To George Town

Shorefront Penang by RT+Q Brings A New Language To George Town

Sea views sell. RT+Q Architects maximised them on a rare site in George Town with a sea-oriented apartment complex that’s also sensitive to its neighbours.