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Halcyon House / Ming Architects

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Crafted for a growing family and to host their friends, Halcyon House features a raised double-volume living room with an accompanying feature staircase and circulatory spaces overlooking it. The house remains intimately connected to nature and light, with an airy interior featuring mellow materials.

Wicker House / Ming Architects

Miwa Negoro — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Wicker House is a playful contemporary house, featuring high-quality natural materials and bright, airy interiors with intermittent splashes of vibrant colour. The structure features open views of water and greenery while ensuring privacy through screens, drawing inspiration from rattan.

House of Dancing Light / Freight Architects

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 02:00:00 +0000

The House of Dancing Light is not merely a built form; it is a living expression of architectural poetry, where light becomes both medium and muse. It celebrates the subtle beauty of illumination, the fluidity of movement, and the atmospheric richness shaped by shadow and stillness.

Refracting Light and Redefining Space: Glass Bricks in Contemporary Interiors

Moises Carrasco — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Glass bricks have been widely used in architecture, eventually becoming a staple of the 1980s architectural styles. Some examples of construction with this material could be the classic "Maison de Verre" by Pierre Chareau and Bernard Bijvoet in Paris or the more modern take of Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP with the Optical Glasshouse in Japan. In recent years, glass bricks are becoming increasingly popular, no longer relegated to older aesthetics. Instead, they have evolved into versatile design elements that bring light, texture, and character into contemporary interiors. Their ability to diffuse natural and artificial light while maintaining privacy has reignited interest among designers seeking innovative ways to enhance indoor spaces while taking advantage of natural light.

The Shop Downstairs / LAR+D

Hana Abdel — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The Shop Downstairs is a playful and tongue-in-cheek reference to the essential commercial hubs that energize Singapore's public housing communities. Tucked quietly between a row of shops in a charming neighborhood, the optical store's entrance is intentionally skewed, drawing customers in with a welcoming, off-center foyer. The store's design follows an open-plan layout that fosters a seamless flow of activity, creating a relaxed and accessible shopping environment.

Screen House / Ming Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 20:00:00 +0000

Screen House is a contemporary family home with a close connection to nature and landscape. Located on a deep plot, the building footprint is set back to allow the crafting of a generous ground floor purposefully designed for hosting family gatherings and entertainment, with a seamless transition between the indoor and outdoor spaces. A sense of arrival is crafted by the experience of walking through the covered barbeque terrace, before entering the double-volume height living space.

Vale House / Ming Architects

Hana Abdel — Sun, 05 May 2024 17:00:00 +0000

The brief for this contemporary family home called for a practical house with four bedrooms for a young couple with children, with a close connection to nature. The context of the site is a front-facing busy street with high vehicular traffic and a public bus route running along it. From the start, privacy was paramount, and a deliberate decision was made to close off the first-storey living spaces facing the street with a solid-clad wall, creating an internal courtyard on which the house would be orientated.

Are Living Rooms Still Relevant? 16 Projects that Explore how these Private Gathering Spaces Adapt to the Contemporary Home

Dima Stouhi — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 07:30:00 +0000

Today, architecture has become - or is in the process of becoming - more flexible and individualistic to accommodate people's diverse lifestyles and spatial needs. With this adaptation, the residential typology has changed and living rooms have become endangered. Many insist on the need of having a space dedicated to relaxation and leisure, while others claim it is simply a waste of space and money. This debate raised an important question: do we still need living/sitting rooms? In this interior focus, we will look at how living rooms evolved through the years, and how architects readapted and integrated the concept of “gathering space” in contemporary residential architecture.

Pan Pacific Orchard Hotel / WOHA

Hana Abdel — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The design of Pan Pacific Orchard proposes a new prototype for high-rise tropical hospitality. Located at 10 Claymore Road, it features tropical, breezy open-air architecture and lush greenery throughout its four distinct strata containing a matrix of guestrooms, social spaces, and garden terraces.

Frame House / Ming Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Tue, 09 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

This contemporary family home is sited directly opposite a lush park containing a children’s playground, lined by a row of mature rain trees which reach towering heights of ten to fifteen meters above the street. The house was designed to create direct views from the master bedroom and roof terrace onto the lush green canopies formed by the rain trees lining the park. The client's brief was for a family home for a young couple with a young child. On the first floor, privacy was important, so we solidified the external wall, except for a small glass viewing panel to the street. On the second floor, to control incoming views from pedestrians looking into the master bedroom, we designed a set of sliding screens that can be closed for privacy when needed.

Perforated House / AR43 Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The Perforated House is nestled in the Northern side of Singapore and epitomizes a private refuge in the midst of a bustling city.

Chord House / Ming Architects

Valeria Silva — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 19:00:00 +0000

A curved external courtyard defines the character of this family home in Singapore. Due to the highly built-up nature of suburban districts, the courtyard was conceptualised as a means to create inward facing views, and introduce light and ventilation into the house without sacrificing privacy.

83 Braemar House / MONOCOT

Andreas Luco — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 18:00:00 +0000

Located in one of the quieter heartlands of Singapore is 83 Braemar, a three-story terrace house gracing a Bachelor’s spirit for adventurous living. Standing out distinctly in the day - its façade conceptualized as a mosaic of horizontal volumes mirroring the Purist style of the early 1900s, its volume dissipates into one of a gently illuminated silhouette exuding a comforting warmth long into the night.

Bukit Merah Apartment / MONOCOT

Hana Abdel — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Bukit Merah is an intimate living space opposing the mindset that Public Housing in Singapore, also known as Housing Development Board (HDB) Flats, are unconducive of interior design pertaining to the ideal space for a home. The project explores the juxtaposition of the public and the private through the contemporary open-plan of a 3-room apartment located in an aged estate dating back to the 1960s.

Stiletto House / EHKA Studio

Valeria Silva — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Inspired by the beauty of free-flowing curves, Seaview House is a fusion of sculpture and building, a blending of form and function to create living spaces that inspire. It embraces traditional concepts of tropical architecture while reinterpreting them in contemporary forms. It explores what a house could be like for an avid collector of antiques and ultra modern furniture, a house that displays and becomes a display itself. Sensual curves are deployed throughout the house, from the building to the landscaping and ground-scape, to the staircases and curved glass railings, to the edging soffit details and corrugated perforated metal sheets, and even to the interior cabinetries, furniture and fitting out accessories. At each scale of the project, from the building form to the details, there is a pursuit of sensuality of form.

Venus House / Ming Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 20:00:00 +0000

The brief for this intermediate terrace house in Singapore requires discreet separation of spaces for the clients, a large inter-generational family. Due to the family size, more floor area was required than the usual building envelope could support. As the site is small, the challenge was to create sufficient space and yet achieve privacy between the separate spaces and zones for the individual family members. In a highly dense built-up country like Singapore, creation of space within tight limits is a necessity for successful architecture.

Assembled House / Park + Associates

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 20:00:00 +0000

We were tasked to create a new home for our client’s family of five, who loved more than anything to spend time with each other, and whose brief reflected so. Immediately, we established our main aim to provide generous visual porosity through and between spaces inside the home. This naturally resulted in us taking a volumetric approach to interpreting the client’s brief, whilst at the same time not losing touch on creating intimate as well as necessarily private spaces for the client and his young family.

Airbnb Tokyo / Suppose Design Office

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 23:00:00 +0000

Airbnb is delighted to unveil its new Tokyo office in Shinjuku, Japan. Airbnb continues its mission to create functional workspaces that are enjoyable, practical and reflect Airbnb’s culture and ‘belong anywhere’ ethos with reference to local identity and design. The Tokyo office is reminiscent of a neighborhood, reinforcing Airbnb’s new neighborhood guide focus. From the reception and café area, a wooden path leads to a series of building-like meeting rooms, designed using distinctive exterior cladding and interiors based on existing Airbnb listings. Airbnb’s Environments Team worked closely with local architects, Suppose Design Office, to create a 500 sqm office space.