One of the first restaurants to open in Shanghai Columbia Circle, INKWOOD Restaurant & Bar is chef Beichuan Yang’s first solo endeavour. Serving European dishes with a Chinese influence and designed by the Shanghai-based multidisciplinary design studio STUDIO8, INKWOOD has become popular with the city’s contemporary crowd.

This 90sqm flat in Singapore is staged for mid-century modern design

A new spot for night owls in Hong Kong

Our world is in a constant state of flux. It’s only natural then, that humanity would be drawn to spaces that are calm, nurturing shelters from the outside world. That’s what Hip-Pop Design had in mind when they designed this private clubhouse

How Australian interior design studio Infinite Design gave a 1980s penthouse a modern revamp

What do you get when a Cornell graduate architect is also a Le Cordon Bleu trained chef? You’d expect nothing less than this delectable hole-in-the-wall

The Finnish architect Alvar Aalto once said that architecture should be “in harmony with the human being”. Extrapolate from this what you will, but Beijing-based architect Nolan Chao of ARCHISTRY design&research office has taken the literal route

This Hong Kong jewellery designer’s London penthouse has dazzling blue, bespoke, industrial-chic accents

A wave of entrepreneurs, creatives and social innovators — from new-age hawkers to upstart product designers — is shaking up the status quo in Singapore and creating demand for a new breed of private members’ clubs. Enter The Straits Clan. Housed in a heritage shophouse, the club provides an environment conducive to creative connections.

In Queensland’s Noosa National Park, Mim Design has crafted a family retreat fully immersed in the surrounding treescapes and seascapes

A bespoke home in Hong Kong’s up-and-coming Tsueng Kwan O neighbourhood designed by JJ Acuna / Bespoke Studio

Foolscap Studio delivers a high-luxe design for Domaine Chandon in Australia’s Yarra Valley

An elegant new office space for Changsha-based China Resources Center finds harmony between modern aesthetics and traditional values

Clever rejigs and a deftly applied colour scheme set this Singaporean HDB flat apart from the pack

Australian practice Matt Gibson Architecture + Design have revamped a 130-year-old Victorian home, with an audacious twist

In the heart of Seoul, a new restaurant by Flack Studio with marble, terrazzo, brass and leather refers to 1950s-era Italian design as reinterpreted through an Australian eye

India’s little-known Modernist movement is very much on display in drawing rooms and government offices across the subcontinent

A Melbourne classic receives a contemporary redesign

In Ho Chi Minh City, MIA Design Studio is defining a new vernacular for modern tropical living

A family apartment in Mumbai strikes a dynamic balance