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

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