It’s taken 10 years of painstaking effort, but architect Anderson Lee has overseen the completion of a new campus at a college for troubled teens on a remote, roadless peninsula on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island.

German designer Alexander Rehn has come up with a solution to a sedentary work-life – a light, ring-shaped rocking stool called the Rocca.

Natural materials and a pastel palette help the 690 sq ft Wong Chuk Hang flat to complement the verdant vistas of Bennett’s Hill and Aberdeen Harbour.

A mask with a 3D print of your own face, antibacterial door handles, and soothing objects with smiling faces are part of Critically Homemade, an exhibition of designs conceived after an architect’s call for pandemic-inspired ideas.

Fabio Mascheroni, designer and co-founder of luxury Italian brand Ludovica Mascheroni, explains why ozone-based sanitising cabinets may become as ubiquitous as air conditioning.

A Chinese medicine practitioner enlisted interior designer Keith Chan to transform his home into a retreat that honours his favourite country to visit.

Designers of BaseHall talk us through their blueprint for the food hall, which opened last month in the windowless basement of Jardine House.

Don’t just go hiking in the northern New Territories, spend a little time in Luen Wo Hui and Shek Wu Hui – two market towns with tree-lined streets, a bit of history, and simple pleasures.

The bar offers a portal to the past in Mong Kok. Founder Laszlo Raphael explains how the brewery worked with designer Alex Cheng King-hang, of Heed Studio, to transform a tiny corner shop into a space rooted in tradition.

Alexander Lervik designed the touch-activated stone-shaped lamps to be connected by Wi-fi so they glow red when one is touched, and heat up and flash like a heartbeat when stroked.

The Handy Capsule is a stylish case with sections for a face mask, hand sanitiser, temperature-reading stickers and alcohol wipes. Its designer, Kiran Zhu of Ziinlife in Shanghai, explains how he got the idea.

Without any cultural experiences to lean on, New Zealanders Alexandra Batten and Daniel Kamp – in collaboration with In Situ & Partners – focused on lighting to let the product ‘sing’ from within.

Dutch architects turn a disused shopping mall in Tainan, southern Taiwan, into a public water park with a paddling pool, creating ‘an oasis in the midst of the city’.

The Hong Kong brand has been making glass-lined vacuum flasks since 1940. Now the family-run company has introduced Cuppa28, a portable flask with a plastic shell. Managing director Raymond Leung explains the new range.

With more time on their hands, a Hong Kong couple decided to adapt their Ting Kau duplex flat to suit their new lifestyle.

Designed by Kevin Chu, of Sugo Biophilia Furniture, the Foglia lamp uses a once expensive technology adapted to work with LED. A smaller design is due to be released in the summer.

Victoria Slaker, the vice-president of industrial design at Ammunition, talks about the San Francisco firm’s collaboration with 3D-printing platform Gantri to create lights made from corn-based plastic.

A Virtual Design Festival aims to kick-start conversations about the future of design after the coronavirus, as designers respond to the crisis with health-conscious innovations, and a determination not to return to past ideas.

Hong Kong-based Michael Young designed Haier’s new Leader range, including modular fridges that can be clipped together.

Shanghai-based designer Frank Chou’s non-profit assembles international designers to devise products that promote public health. The lamp is their first project.

Littleurbanmountain design principal, Bong Yeung, took inspiration from some of London’s coolest venues to create a secret space within the stylish watering hole.

More than half of Hong Kong’s population lives in public housing, but how and why the first estates were built in the 1950s has long been a matter of conjecture. An architect has uncovered new information about their design.

For long a site of industry, Oil Street earned a place in Hong Kong history as the home, briefly, of an artists’ village. Art is being made there again at Oi!, a community art centre in a former Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club clubhouse.

Hong Kong designers, who are used to thinking about small spaces, share some interior design tips to make working from home during the coronavirus more productive and pleasant.

Tseung Kwan O might lack ‘community feeling’ but its history stretches back to the 13th century, and it was once a thriving area known as Hong Kong’s ‘Little Taiwan’. Today, a growing waterfront promenade is getting people out of the shopping malls.

By filling their flat with treasures old and new, a designer helped a retired couple, who had spent the past two decades away, ease into their new life.

Yoga teacher Leila Fronza Quites was reminded of her homeland by the natural light in her Discovery Bay apartment. The decor reinforces that feeling.

Humble post-war Hong Kong tenement buildings, or tong lau, are getting a new lease of life as big developers seize on their potential. Architects talk about the challenges and rewards of revamping the hastily built utilitarian blocks.

Private clubs have been part of Hong Kong’s social fabric since its earliest days as a British colony, as places to meet and deal. Today the future of many is in doubt – accused of elitism, their facilities underused, their membership ageing.

Designer Enoch Hui’s client asked him to transform an apartment above his Kowloon unit into an upscale party pad.