In what is almost a return to first principles, a group of landscape and design firms across Asia are rethinking highly managed, human-centric urban spaces in favour of nature-led systems that often serve as civic infrastructure. As their projects take root, city logic shifts from control to coexistence

An antidote to transience, Interlude is among the first of 1,000 structures being built by charitable trust Paererewā

On the Izu Peninsula, Studio Cochi Architects has reimagined a dilapidated cabin as a contemporary getaway that offers the best of the locale

In our rotating column, we ask an architect or designer to write about one building that matters to them. In this issue, Lyndon Neri of Neri&Hu Design and Research Office discusses why Sigurd Lewerentz’s Church of St Peter in Klippan is a 20th-century masterpiece.

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