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Casey Brown Architecture’s Permanent Camping series has always asked the same question. At its third iteration — two Corten A-frames on a working sheep farm outside Orange — the answer is sharper than ever
Phnom Penh’s new Techo International Airport by Foster + Partners aspires to be green, efficient and human-centric
Bangkok design firm Ekar Architects has created an extraordinary multigenerational dwelling across nine buildings on a sprawling green space in central Bangkok
Indonesian architects and designers are combining traditional materials and vernacular with contemporary approaches, in spaces from hospitality to educational and commercial.
Neri&Hu translates Midtown East’s Art Deco legacy into a sanctuary of ‘refined domesticity’, distilling the residential apartment to its essence
From Bund renovations to park pavilions, Shisuo Design Office crafts contemporary spaces that honour genius loci through material storytelling
On Naoshima island, Tadao Ando’s latest museum emerges from the hillside like a modernist temple
Yusof Ishak House has been reimagined by design architect Erik L’Heureux as a net zero-energy building, while paying homage to the iconic commons hub’s historic identity
The Comfort Foundry from Hong Kong studio Canter and Gallop Design brings a homely warmth to the ordinarily sterile workplace environment
As Expo 2025 Osaka draws to a close, its constellation of national pavilions reveals a world of contrasts and a subtler narrative: how architecture becomes diplomacy, soft power and an expression of identity in timber, steel and light
Under the guidance of Thai architect Rachaporn Choochuey, Shanghai Picnic, the Rockbund Art Museum’s biennial architecture festival, interrogated urban scarcity on a communal stage
The Sydney Metro development is Australia’s largest public transport project, and the early signs are that the wait has been worth it
The longstanding symbol of Japan’s post-war creative resurgence is at risk of being demolished, but a campaign to save it is gathering pace
MVRDV, together with Schmidt Hammer Lassen, Atelier Deshaus and others, reimagine a former cement factory as an open-air retail and leisure complex along Shanghai’s West Bund
The 2024 laureate speaks to us at Singapore Archifest about good design and how we can make cities work
An adaptive reuse project by Monolab Studio has transformed an old warehouse into one of the world’s highest-capacity vault facilities for precious metals
As the Venice Biennale contemplates design strategies for adapting to the intractable effects of climate crises, Asian architects look inward to the complexities and richness of their region that have informed decades of intelligent city-making practices
Chinese photographer Zhefeng Shang chronicles the disappearing revolutionary opera stages of Shaanxi province, built from the 1950s to the 1980s
Reviving the spirit of its 1966 predecessor, the newly opened Ginza Sony Park redefines the public park as a fluid, multi-level space for art, culture and community in the heart of Tokyo’s Ginza district
Design firm Compartment S4 balanced history, functionality and sustainability to honour this building’s industrial past while creating a workplace fit for the future
Part of the new Sydney Metro City line, Barangaroo Station is a landmark underground railway station designed by Foster + Partners and Architectus
Bangkok’s BTS Skytrain winds its way over the city, where pedestrians and street economies exist on the ground and luxury malls and development soar up above — but it also presents new possibilities for urban mobility in the Thai capital.
This Semarang home is characterised by a sense of rhythm and geometry thanks to the exposed concrete and brick, layered volumes and voids and ramps. Indonesian architect Wiyoga Nurdiansyah shares more about his project
Bali’s neighbour has a new designer destination courtesy of Indonesian studios andramatin and d-associates
In Jalandhar, new bar Notorious is a mash-up of tropical rooftop cabana bar and sultry speakeasy. Dheeraj Bajaj, founder and principal architect of Studio Dashline, shares more about his team’s approach to the project
The new building is marked by its distinctive cantilever, but is intended to become much more
Melbourne's MPavilion celebrates its tenth annual commission with Japanese Pritzker Prize laureate Tadao Ando’s first built structure in Australia. Design Anthology speaks with Ando about his elegant concrete pavilion
In Saitama, Tokyo-based Unemori Architects designed this family home by reworking existing structures built by one generation to become a new dwelling for the next. Here studio founder Hiroyuki Unemori shares more
Studio Hashimura has redesigned the historic Nao Washi Paper Mill in the mountains of Nao in Saga Prefecture
In central Bangkok, the looming demolition of a Chinese shrine on university land is exposing ideological fault lines between powerless communities and profit-hungry developers