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Permanent Pleasures

An exercise in crafting space, material, and texture for a house of unadulterated enjoyment in Manila that sets Nazareno + Guerrero Design Consultancy apart from the rest

Design, Build, Maintain

Three disappointed clients create Magis Homes so their customers can afford Calma, Galicia, Periquet, Yulo, and Yupangco designs constructed and cared for by a trusted builder

Magis Homes Steel By Eduardo Calma

Ed Calma is one of the country’s best Modernist architects.

Lario By Dominic Galicia

Lario is a play on the Spanish word, ladrillo, which means ‘brick.’

Alexander Erikkson Furunes and Sudarshan V. Khadka, Jr.

Our Work Is A Lot About Understanding The Value Of Collaboration And Trying To Form Shared Meanings Within A Group Of People. We Use The Architectural Design Process As A Method Of Building Relations And Meaning In What We Make Together.

Long Huynh

Co-founder and managing director of Chuon Chuon Kim Kindergarten

Joseph Javier

Ultimately, Architecture Should Transform You And Your Paradigms. This Transformation Comes From The Positively Disruptive Effect Of Designed Environments.

Hiroyuki Oki

Hiroyuki Oki

Hufton + Crow

The British architectural photography duo proves that working with a second opinion makes for a better end product

Ketsiree Wong Wan

A pragmatic and no-nonsense approach informs the work of this architectural photographer who has shot for some of Thailand’s best and brightest architectural studios

Dulux Professional at Conex 2017

When you have your own Colour Prize at the World Architecture Festival (WAF), designers know you’re serious about paints and coatings.

A Temple for Tapas

Neri&Hu reference Fort San Pedro and the Queen City’s old churches for Pig & Palm, Cebu’s hippest bar and restaurant.

Bread and Bitters

Two unlikely sister establishments, a bakery-café and a cocktail bar, channel Paris and New York in Kuala Lumpur’s ritzy Damansara district.

Confluence

The Philippine Pavilion at the 16th Venice Biennale is a meeting of two major forces shaping our built environment today

The Sane Thing To Do

Something’s happened to hard-nosed businessman and architect Ong Tze Boon, who now uses the L-word and talks about making the world a better place

Manila In Mind

BluPrint interviews the proponents of Harvard Graduate School of Design and AECOM’s Manila: Future Habitations

It's Her House

RT+Q Architects’ House with Bridges in Singapore is chockfull of delightful surprises, quirky spaces, and winsome charm—and therein lies the harm

Roots And Shoots

Architectural flora maestros VTN Architects harness the strength of bamboo to create a new branch of architectural identity for Vietnam

Color Factory

Sancal doesn’t need to yap about company history and design ethos— walls do all the talking for them.

Rising Sun

Japanese-owned Okada Manila, an integrated resort and casino development inspired by the Manila Bay sunset, rises in Entertainment City, Parañaque.

Bent Space

Buck Sia takes simple massing out for a spin in a residence that constantly surprises its owner.

There/Not There

The new Silverlens Galleries by Anna Sy impresses then relinquishes our attention to the show.

Pageturner

Kuala Lumpur’s Hotel Journal is a modern yet nostalgic narrative of culture and community.

Humanizing The High-Rise

Most discussions on skyscrapers focus on their iconography, symbolism, and how they function as ‘objects’ within the city—and that’s a mistake.

Compact In The City

Tan Tik Lam’s problem-solving skills and a homeowner’s pragmatism meet in a 120-square-meter family house in a dense city neighborhood.

Singular

Singapore firm RT+Q Architects carves out breathing spaces from the sides of a terrace house to make it feel like a breezy single-detached residence.

Unsinkable Spirit

Because of its diminished state, a sunken shrine in Cabetican, Bacolor, offers a powerful space laden with new meaning for communing with the divine.

Image Building

While the effects that architecture has on photography continue to be nuanced at least within the confines of the framed image, the impact of the latter upon the former is actually more  far reaching than the younger practice is given credit for

Architecture In The Age Of Instagram

When the double tap becomes the coveted outcome of design

Tom Epperson

Photographer Jaime Rapi, Jr. sits down with his long-time mentor and friend for a conversation on career beginnings, the exacting art of depicting space, and what it takes to succeed in the business of architectural photography