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At Vitra Campus, Even the Smallest Buildings Have Big Names
On the Swiss-German border, Zaha Hadid’s first built project, a Jean Prouvé petrol station, a Piet Oudolf garden, a salvaged home by Kazuo Shinohara and several deconstructivist buildings by Frank Gehry form only part of Vitra Campus’ extraordinary cast of architectural icons.
This Nanjing Apartment Brings Tranquillity to City Life
A reimagining by design firm Adda Di’An focuses on light, material expression and a soft, cloud-like ambience
Sri Lanka’s Most Consequential Designer Since Bawa Finally Gets His Monograph
Udayshanth Fernando was queuing outside Colombo galleries in the early 1970s, long before anyone was paying attention. A new Rizzoli monograph finally catches up
The Singapore Penthouse That Traded Stark White for Moody Jazz Bar Vibe
Amy Lim of Pupil Office has reimagined a Tanglin penthouse, transforming what was once a stark gallery-like space into a textured, clever home for a young family.
Alanna Sapwell-Stone’s Esmay Has Been Looking for a Building Like This One
From pop-up beginnings to a sold Adelaide home base, Esmay sits comfortably within a heritage-listed former hotel. The design by Eda Interiors honours the existing Victorian character and charm while balancing them with a feminine restraint, allowing the food and drink offering to lead
At Penfolds, Wine Is Only Part of the Story
Through collaborations with figures such as Troye Sivan, Penfolds’ growing engagement with art and design reflects a wider spirit of experimentation shaping the historic wine house
Studio Nicholson’s New Kyoto Home in a Traditional Machiya
The British label has worked with local specialists to reimagine the traditional townhouse as a home for its unique edit of fashion and accessories
How One Tree Threads Through Every Part of The Standard Pattaya Na Jomtien
The Standard Pattaya Na Jomtien is the brand’s third Thai property, inspired by the sugar palm, sunset orange and sea breeze
The Artist Who Enjoys Turning Paper Into Wood, Concrete and Metal
Bandung-based Irfan Hendrian pushes the humble medium of paper beyond its assumed fragility, shaping it into complex forms charged with Indonesia’s political anxieties
How an Awkward Floor Plan Became a Forest-Facing Home
Singapore design studio Medium Specific employs colour, light and nature to transform an awkward layout into a beautiful home.
In This Jakarta Home, A Growing Art Collection Finds its Canvas
Drawing on Californian minimalism, the home by Aedi Design Bureau is deliberately stripped back, using natural materials and minimal intervention to create a calm backdrop for the homeowners’ growing art collection
A Pebbledash Building in Taipei Becomes an Unlikely Coffee Salon
In a former Japanese-era dormitory beside a Taipei granary, Bemo Salon reimagines specialty coffee through the rituals of the European salon — a setting designed by Ecru Studio for slow, deliberate tasting
A Singapore Home That Captures the Feeling of a Japanese Ryokan
Rather than recreate traditional Japanese interiors, the home draws on the atmosphere of ryokans and tea houses to create a calm and grounded retreat.
For Paola Navone, Accidents, Chance and Risks Are All Part of the Process
For more than two decades, illustrious designer Paola Navone has collaborated with Baxter to transform leather into a language of craft, experimentation and human connection, creating furniture that is as tactile and luxurious as it is timeless.
The List: Our Editors’ Guide to Design-Focused Destinations and Products in May and Beyond
The monthly briefing from Design Anthology’s editors on the most interesting things to see, places to go and products to know
How Ekar Architects Turned a Flooded Mining Pit Into Phuket’s Most Unusual Restaurant
Bangkok studio Ekar Architects has completed Day & Night, a 1,200-square-metre restaurant on a former tin mining lake in Phuket, organising cafe, dining and bar around a descent into the pit on the water
The Kuala Lumpur Designer Who Hides His Best Work Inside the Seams
When you buy a piece from Aaron Wei Hao Yong, you deal with the man who cut it — a closeness that has shaped the Kuala Lumpur label as much as its hidden seams and precise tailoring.
The Bathroom, Reconsidered: How Axor Reimagined the Most Intimate Room in the Home
At Milan Design Week, Axor offered a glimpse into two new collections — by Antonio Citterio and Barber Osgerby — that approach the bathroom from different directions but land in much the same place: as a room for ritual, not just utility
Discarded Hides, Algae Marble and Olive Trees: Melbourne Design Week’s Material Year
Across galleries, gardens and a converted convent, Melbourne Design Week 2026 brought together designers from every state, with established names and practitioners showing for the first time. Two ideas kept surfacing: material experimentation and a turn towards reuse
The Church Where No Brick Was Cut
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.