Exclusive Interview with Ar. Lin Hongsui, Director, ID Architects
ID Architects Director Lin Hongsui explains what accumulated industrial knowledge brings to data centre work, where standardisation reaches its limit and why sustainability needs to shape the project from the start.
What Keeps a Home Working
Across Bangladesh and Hong Kong, people, partnerships and practical support shape how housing responds to everyday needs and changing conditions.
Context Beyond Borders
Seven projects across Asia show how
climate, people, terrain, industry and
cultural memory shape the design response.
Adapting the Domestic Order
At The Vaadhyar’s House in Kanadukathan, a 19th-century summer residence has been restored as a restaurant. Its courts, verandas and halls show how an inherited domestic order can accommodate a public programme.
What Changes When an Architect Designs at the Scale of the Hand?
In this conversation with architect Alexis Dornier, who works across buildings, spatial installations and objects, he reflects on what changes when design moves between those scales.
IBEW and BEX Asia 2026 Put AI’s Built Environment Test on the Floor
This September, the paired conference and exhibition turn attention to applied intelligence: where AI, robotics, data and sustainability tools meet delivery, operations and workforce capability.
Huawei’s Guangzhou Campus and the Industrial Riverfront’s Next Economy
A former sugar-processing site on the Pearl River’s western bank has been converted into Huawei’s Guangzhou R&D Campus: a 305,000-square-metre complex of offices, hospitality and cultural space designed by Singapore-based SPARK as a single urban composition.
Industry Interview with Melissa Lok, Associate Director, Climate Asia
Melissa Lok discusses why Southeast Asia’s built environment climate transition now depends on reliable carbon data, product-level baselines, and the practical capacity to turn disclosure into decisions.
Integrated Sustainability in a Modest HDB Home
Designed for a homeowner and two cats, this 800-square foot, reconfigured 3-room HDB flat in Pasir Ris blurs the threshold between interior and exterior. The 37-year-old unit reconciles aesthetics with function, and modesty with exuberance.
Can Regenerative Collectives Offer a Different Way to Live with Land in India?
This contributed essay asks whether regenerative collectives can reconnect living, food, water, livelihoods and ecological repair under intensifying urban and resource pressures.
