Local firm STUDIO8 designed craft cocktail bar and restaurant Charcohol to reflect the transformative nature of charcoal. Here, STUDIO8 co-founder Shirley Dong tells us more about her team’s approach to the architecture and interiors

The founders of Hong Kong studio Bean Buro discuss their latest project, a calm office space in the city, inspired by traditional Japanese architecture, where employee comfort and wellbeing are the top priorities

Human Bean takes advantage of its coastal location among vibrant green rice fields and fruit trees, serving up ingredients-focused fare and specialty coffee under a semi-open pergola

Multidisciplinary design studio A Work of Substance used timber and glass to soften the industrial feel of these four shipping containers that have been transformed into a modular, collapsible and sustainable marketing suite for a logistics company in Hong Kong

Hui Designs combines French joie de vivre with a relaxed tropicana mood in Merci Marcel Orchard

Celebrated designer Joyce Wang shares more about her design of the new Oscuro cigar lounge and expanded Kyubi restaurant at London’s The Arts Club.

This new Hangzhou bar was designed by Hong Kong firm M.R. Studio as an elegant and dramatic homage to the art of whisky making

Beijing-based architecture firm odd (okamoto deguchi design)’s fit-out of new Japanese restaurant Kan comprises a series of private dining rooms inspired by traditional juubako stacked lunchboxes

Shanghai-based dongqi Architects was commissioned by sneaker retailer Concepts to renovate a historic Shikumen-style building into its first concept store in China. Here dongqi’s founder Jiang Nan shares more about his team’s design approach

New Delhi- and New York-based firm DeMuro Das conceived a series of architectural interventions to combine two apartments into one family home, which is now filled with intriguing spaces, colours, artworks and custom-designed furniture

Li Jia of GE Space Design discusses her design for an innovative ‘cocktail facility’ in Sichuan’s capital

We speak with Peter Lampard, co-founder of local Hong Kong firm DEFT, about his team’s approach to the renovation of this three-bedroom home, which involved reconfiguring the layout to allow natural light to filter into all corners of the home and carefully selecting a pared back materials palette

Parachute is a bakery, deli and farm-to-table restaurant located in the paddy fields of Berawa, Bali. Zhi Xiong Chan of ZXC Studio tells us more about his approach to designing the project

We speak with designer Chris Connell about his work on Melbourne’s newest Italian bar-restaurant

We speak with Golden co-directors Alicia McKimm and Kylie Dorotic about their recent retail design for Viktoria & Woods

We spoke with JJ Acuna of JJA / Bespoke Studio, about his newest interiors project for retro gaming company Analogue

In congested and bustling Ho Chi Minh, local firm MIA Design Studio have recently completed a residential project that is deeply connected to nature

Yuni Jie of Jie Design speaks with our editor-in-chief about a recent penthouse project in the Indonesian capital

When faced with designing this irregularly shaped apartment, Gabriel Tan’s solution was a series of ingenious customised features and furniture pieces