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Tropical Design

Tropical Space delivers an innovative office building in Ho Chi Minh City

Tropical Space delivers an innovative office building in Ho Chi Minh City

Designed with commitment to sustainability and featuring the integration of solid clay bricks, Premier Office seamlessly blends into the urban fabric of Tan Binh district.

5 inspiring architecture and design books that span decades of innovation

5 inspiring architecture and design books that span decades of innovation

Embark on a visual and intellectual journey through architectural excellence and rethinking of tropical living.

Dated ‘60s house renovated into a modern family home that embraces the great outdoors

Dated ‘60s house renovated into a modern family home that embraces the great outdoors

Quod Architects designs an environmentally-sustainable ‘outdoor house’ fit for Singapore’s tropical climate, marrying nature and the man-made, present and future.

Linghao Architects designs an atypical tropical house

Linghao Architects designs an atypical tropical house

A roof that drips, windows with no glass, a stair between patches of grass – Linghao Architects’ renovation to a house in Singapore allows its occupants to live with nature’s vicissitudes.

Gwen Tan on the art of living in the tropics

Gwen Tan on the art of living in the tropics

Gwen Tan is an architect with an illustrious career, designing homes that not only make a statement in their manipulation of form, but also in the way they respond to the owners, “adapting and evolving” over time.

Park + Associates’ Assembled House Steps Up Semi Detached House Design

Park + Associates’ Assembled House Steps Up Semi Detached House Design

In the Assembled House, Park + Associates’ ingenious response to challenging regulations results in an engaging, light-filled semi detached house defined by its circulation and layering of internal volumes.