When nature meets structure!

By Ar. Vinita Wagh

Photography: Adam Letch; courtesy SAOTA

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Kloof145 Residence (inset) Ar. Phillippe Fouche, Director SAOTA

SAOTA shapes this Cape Town residence to blur the unmistakable thresholds between landscape and architecture, drawing on soft transitions and honest expressions.

A taste of la dolce vita

By Ar. Vinita Wagh

Photography: Maurizio Marcato, Enrico Galvani e Photo-Ring

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Studio Apostoli, with their design for the Vision Hotel, beautifully balance the experience of a modern interior with a technically advanced, sustainable exterior – all the while, celebrating the senses.

Transforming user interactions with everyday architecture

By Ar. Vinita Wagh

Photography: courtesy the architect

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'The Fourth Room' (inset) Ar. Fran Silvestre

Structured, yet flexible. Bold, yet minimal. Fran Silvestre Arquitectos presents a play of spatial configurations and functional aesthetics through the interiors of their latest residence, ‘The Fourth Room’...

Thailand’s Little Shelter Hotel has a façade that reinterprets vernacular into contemporary!

By Rutvi Ashar

Photography: W Workspace Company Limited; courtesy the architect

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Department of Architecture Co. designs the Little Shelter Hotel - a glittering lantern on the Ping riverbank – a modern reinterpretation of a glorious past, symbol of the present and an introduction to the future of Chiang Mai for its visitors…

Hold your breath and savour Japan!

By Rutvi Ashar

Photography: Andrey Avdeenko; courtesy the architect

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Sergey Makhno Architects bring their love for Japan to Ukraine via a maze-like Japanese restaurant, carefully balancing the outlook of the city folk with the nuanced culture of a foreign land…

The stage as the storyteller!

By Ar. Vinita Wagh
Photography: Uldis Lapins; courtesy DJA

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Didzis Jaunzems Architecture (DJA) make a statement with their stunning contemporary stage design for Latvia’s centenary celebration...

Envisioning the educational campus of the future!

By Ar. Romil Sheth

Photography: Courtesy Sasaki

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Are our institutional campuses keeping pace with a continuingly progressive socio-economic scenario? Are the educational buildings ready for the students of the morrow? Ar. Romil Sheth ponders a solution…