Design & Interiors
Library or forest? World’s biggest library reading space, in Beijing, is both
The world’s largest library reading space, housed by the Beijing City Library in China’s capital, was inspired by nature – think rice paddies, a river and trees – and designed to be something of a social space.
Soothing avocado green, French simplicity in this Hong Kong home’s makeover
A Hong Kong-based client’s favourite colour shade was not only on trend, it was also the perfect hue to turn her 520 sq ft Tsuen Wan flat into a relaxing sanctuary.
‘A perfect retirement home’: 510 sq ft Hong Kong apartment with Bauhaus form
This 510 sq ft retirement apartment in Hong Kong’s Tai Hang neighbourhood has been given a Bauhaus-inspired renovation that will allow its elderly occupants to age in place – and comfort.
How a design journalist’s Hong Kong village house evolved over 20 years
A design journalist reflects on the house in a village in Hong Kong’s Sai Kung district she called home for 20 years, and how the homes she wrote about influenced numerous upgrades to its interiors.
When the covers came off The Blue hotel, Taipei ‘paused for a moment’
Pair whose focus is the need for an architecture that responds to a world being manipulated by AI, and for Emotional cities not Smart cities, put their ideas into practice in design of The Blue in Taipei.
Now a Hong Kong university campus, its darker past is of war and prisoners
Nestled in verdant Pok Fu Lam, the University of Chicago’s Hong Kong campus tells the story of the city’s wartime defeat to the Japanese and of its buildings’ subsequent occupants: prisoners.
The outdoors is the artwork in a Hong Kong home with stunning green views
Harbour views are prized in Hong Kong, but a renovation of a flat with huge windows makes the most of its vistas of verdant hillsides to create a restful interior with notes of wood and stone.
Artist’s line drawing inspires Hong Kong home design with a Balinese vibe
A Hong Kong village house with a Balinese vibe brings Scandinavian, Moroccan and Japanese elements together seamlessly – and it all started with a single-line drawing.
From ‘dark and heavy’ to light and airy: Hong Kong seaside house transformed
Renovation of a seaside house for a family of four gives it a coastal vibe – think whitewashed walls, a timber staircase that funnels light down, and stone floors that ‘don’t show marks or pet hair’.
3 floors, balcony, terrace – Nordic look makes the most of Hong Kong flat
A triplex apartment in Hong Kong’s Mid-Levels offered plenty of space to play with, but its slim footprint meant adopting a simple Nordic design.
White-on-white minimalist Hong Kong flat is homeowner’s dream living space
A minor update to an apartment in Hong Kong’s Mid-Levels turned into a full-blown renovation. The results reflect the homeowner’s tastes and spin maximum satisfaction from a minimalist aesthetic.
Warm wood, tree-like columns – new Union Church connected to nature and past
The new Union Church has been designed to honour the congregation’s 180-year history in Hong Kong. Tree-like structural columns support a vaulted ceiling and the airy space is filled with natural light.
He made a minimalist, airy 500 sq ft Hong Kong flat that ‘tells a story’
Architect Georges Hung and his wife lived for three months in their Discovery Bay home before deciding how to renovate it. He turned the apartment from cramped and boxy into an open, airy space.
Creating communities in Hong Kong is ‘maddening and fun’: meet Marisa Yiu
Design Trust Futures Studio has dotted micro-parks across Hong Kong with one goal in mind: creating communities. We meet Marisa Yiu, its tireless champion.
Light flows through a family home with enlarged windows, glass balustrades
A Hong Kong interior designer tapped her employees to turn the family’s three-storey private villa in Sai Kung into a colourful, light-filled home whose indoor and outdoor areas seamlessly connect.
She saves Hong Kong’s neon signs, but it was in Taiwan her eyes were opened
Cardin Chan, general manager of Tetra Neon Exchange, which rescues and preserves Hong Kong’s disappearing neon signs, reveals how the Wufeng Lin Family Mansion in Taiwan changed her life.
Low-key and shopping rarely go together in Hong Kong. They do here
Hong Kong is not lacking in shopping centres, but the latest, The Pedder Arcade, is unlike any other. On the fifth floor of the Pedder Building in Central, it is the passion project of Mark Cho.
A blank canvas: how an unlovely Macau house became a whimsical art cave
Artist Konstantin Bessmertny and his concert pianist wife Gala’s home in Coloane, Macau, which they first saw in 2004, is a testament to marital harmony – part art studio, part cosy retreat.
‘I’m trying to create a raw luxury’: designer on his ‘sumptuous minimalism’
Alexander Lamont’s Bangkok showroom is testament to the British designer’s approach of transforming once ‘bloody and smelly’ materials into ultimate and absolute luxury.
From Eames chair to Le Corbusier lamp, apartment fit-out is designer led
From an Eames dining chair to a Le Corbusier lamp, nothing but the crėme de la crėme of high-end designer items were good enough for the Hong Kong high-rise home of two discerning creatives.