The Hong Kong protests are driving mainland Chinese and Hongkongers away from the city to sophisticated but affordable residential properties in Malaysia

A surge in luxury housing developments has put these areas among the most popular neighbourhoods in Hong Kong

The easy commute to the heart of the city and excellent schools, combined with magnificent scenery, add up to an enviably high-quality lifestyle

The district offers exclusive homes and proximity to some of Hong Kong’s top-performing primary and secondary schools

British furniture designers teamed up with Hong Kong design professionals from a variety of disciplines to create unique furniture pieces that will be unveiled this week in Hong Kong.

Residential developments offering the facilities, glamour and five-star brands of top hotels are springing up across Asia-Pacific

Some buyers are looking at resort markets while others seek homes near quiet lakes, golf courses and ski resorts, or a location that offers business convenience or seasonal living

K11 Musea, the new cultural-retail destination on Hong Kong’s revitalised Victoria Dockside, shows what can happen when 100 creative collaborators are brought together and given free rein – and resources – to realise one dream.

Wesleyan House Methodist International Church is a 22-storey high-rise topped with a Sky Chapel that has breathtaking views. Architect Rocco Yim conceived the structure and wanted it to be ‘enlightening, liberating, and comforting’.

In their office in Tsim Sha Tsui’s K11 Atelier, AB Concept’s Ed Ng and Terence Ngan take a personal, playful approach, and it works.

Our sofas are too soft, our chairs encourage bad posture, our spines are less upright –so designers have reworked the office chair to be kinder on our bodies. That should be a relief in places like Hong Kong where office hours are long.

The artworks Chertavian curates for One Dalton will be on permanent display throughout the hotel and residential common spaces

Hong Kong-based PAL Design Group partner Joey Ho Tzung-hsien’s inside-out design for SIS Prep Gurugram, near New Delhi, emphasises moving and playing

An unexpected turn of events meant it was back to the drawing board for hoo designers Yu-Chang Chen and Yannes Cheng, who ensured the final product delivered on the couple’s changing expectations.

At least 20 nations that offer citizenship or residency through property investment are growing increasingly popular among city’s residents looking for a ‘Plan B’

Hong Kong architects have revived a Mid-Autumn Festival tradition: tower burning. Their version is eco-friendly, flame-free and LED-lit, and a showcase for the recycled-plastic bricks used in its construction.

Taking a cue from millennials’ co-living spaces, Matthias Hollwich’s Skyler concept replaces the ‘simulated reality’ of retirement communities with apartment towers for people of all ages who look after each other.

Properties in the sun-drenched island paradise of Hawaii range from as little as US$250,000 for a modest home to oceanfront estates worth millions of dollars

Upcycled or recycled, waste materials such as bone, skins, feathers, shells, automotive parts, PET bottles, and coffee grounds are being turned into beautiful, and practical, items for the home by designers committed to sustainability.

Forget cookie-cutter offices – companies are designing feel-good workplaces that are also flexible, sociable and hotel-like in sophistication and ambience. Innovations include non-fixed modular systems and ‘non-office’ aesthetics.

US architect Bill Bensley rarely fails to surprise with his sometimes wacky hotel ideas, such as tree houses and guests zip lining to reception. Now he’s working on a human ‘zoo’ in China where it’s the guests who appear imprisoned.

The word on the grapevine is that Chinese and Hong Kong investors see vineyards in France’s prime growing regions, especially Bordeaux, as an ideal way to diversify property portfolios

Luxe duplexes and ‘villas in the sky’ in places like Sentosa Cove and District 9 are attracting super-rich buyers from Asia who previously were investing in Canada, the United States and New Zealand

More than 14 per cent of properties sold in the French capital to non-resident and resident foreigners during first three months of the year were bought by buyers from China

Unique, high-end real estate remains a well-performing investment opportunity for ultra high-net-worth individuals in uncertain economic times

With millions to spend, life on top of the world with unimpeded 360-degree views, double-height ceilings, a hotel-style concierge and ‘wow’ factor is the ultimate real estate status symbol

Despite the flat’s small size – just 453 square feet – clever design and careful planning mean every member of a family of five, including Pa the parrot and Meow the cat, get their own space

Siti Nurafaf Ismail, the first Asian woman to win the RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship, will shadow leading architects working on post-disaster rebuilding projects in Hokkaido, Japan, and Karachi, Pakistan.

Following the death of Bing Thom, the architect behind Tsim Sha Tsui’s Xiqu Centre, Venelin Kokalov, of Revery Architecture (formerly Bing Thom Architects), finished the project in collaboration with Ronald Lu & Partners.

Projects such as Melbourne Skyfarm and those by Hong Kong’s Rooftop Republic are turning busy urban areas into hubs of food production while promoting green and sustainable lifestyles.