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.

Over the centuries, architecture and design have gradually evolved to place user experience at the centre of the design process; interiors are created with function foremost in the designer’s mind. At home, the trend is moving towards homes that make our lives easier and more relaxing.

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

Japan House London opens in the heart of the British Capital, a mecca of Japanese culture, design and aesthetic refinement

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

A cultural centre in Jiangsu Province pays architectural homage to the traditional Chinese art form

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

The legendary Serpentine Pavilion opens its first architectural installation outside of the UK in the heart of the Chinese capital

The Datai welcomed its first guests to Langkawi in 1993 with a breathtaking rainforest setting and a seamless eco-conscious design by Kerry Hill that proved far ahead of its time.

The Sukhothai Shanghai tapped none other than local duo design neri&hu to lend an air of sophistication to its 170 guest rooms and 31 suites in the new Taikoo Hui mixed-use lifestyle complex.

The new 289-room Waldorf Astoria Chengdu bears the stamp of interiors maven Alexandra Champalimaud.

The House Collective has unveiled its third property with the opening of The Middle House in Shanghai, its interiors artfully rendered by internationally acclaimed architect and designer Piero Lissoni.

Located just off the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Nobu Ryokan is a completely renovated 1950s vintage beach motel combining the minimalist aesthetic of traditional Japanese inns with the casual coolness of the California coast.

Perched on the third floor above an expansive ground-floor cafe and the lifestyle brand’s Shibuya flagship store, hotel koé is the brainchild of SUPPOSE DESIGN OFFICE.

The newest Rosewood outpost in Asia can be found in idyllic Luang Prabang.

Sophisticated yet down to earth, quiet yet in the heart of the city, Little Tai Hang is the latest boutique addition to the Hong Kong hotel scene.

Luxury carpet company Fort Street Studio premieres its first limited edition collection Progetto Passione in New York, signalling a new chapter for its artist-designers