Located in Dubai’s Jumeirah neighbourhood, a coveted residential enclave near sandy beaches, ZAAZ Wellness & Beauty is a spa designed by interior design firm VSHD Design Dubai to engage the body, mind and soul. Spread across two floors, with a total floor area of 2,500 square metres, its interiors is rooted in minimalistic modern elements, […]

Located at Xinxing District, Taiwan, The National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts symbolizes the transformation of Kaohsiung, once a major international harbour, into a modern, diverse city with a rich cultural climate. Designed by Mecanoo, the building is located on a former military terrain, as an integral part of the adjacent subtropical park to have […]

Set in a former print factory at the southern end of Tel Aviv, this intervention within an existing industrial building explores the boundaries and potentials of re-use as a design brief. The building on 117 Herzl Street was a mediocre architectural product in the positive sense of the word. It had other qualities too, being […]

The project is located in the Xucun Industrial Zone, Jiaxing, China. The architect built an elegant courtyard on the roof of a factory and named it Xiaoya. Since it is adjacent to a main road, with many surrounding houses, the designer uses green plants as walls to block out the sight and noise from the […]

The busy urban streetscape of Osaka welcomes concrete’s latest interior project: W’s first hotel in Japan. With a total of 337 guest rooms and suites, W Osaka asserts its presence with a 27-story high-rise building by Nikken and a black monolith facade designed by Tadao Ando. Created for Sekisui House and Marriott International, and in […]

An ex-industrial building in the middle of Jing’an Temple area, Shanghai, receives a lease of new life when inter-disciplinary architectural design practice Neri&Hu converts a premise once occupied by a telecoms company into its new studio named No. 31. At its core, this adaptive reuse project is founded on the notion of reflective nostalgia – […]

Pantone, the global color authority and provider of professional color language standards and digital solutions for the design community, announced PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray and PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating, as the Pantone® Color of the Year selection for 2021, two independent colors that come together to create an aspirational color pairing, conjoining deeper feelings of thoughtfulness […]

The Society of Interior Designers, Singapore (SIDS), the industry body representing Singapore’s interior design fraternity, has announced its new Council for term 2020 to 2022. Members were elected to form the 19-member SIDS Council for a two-year term from 2020 to 2022. Prof. Keat Ong was elected to serve a new two-year term as the […]