The home’s modern interior makeover blends nature and art to create a calming space for reflection and connection, a design perfect for its artwork-loving occupants.

Built to resemble a giant audio speaker, YG Entertainment’s futuristic headquarters balances a need for privacy with a desire for visibility, the co-founder of Dutch architects UNStudio explains.

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The British writer and expert on train travel talks about the lure of life on the rails and an Indian trip that ended at the altar.

Simple but not ordinary, different but not weird - that's what makes a product long-lasting, says designer, who co-founded Hay with his wife, Mette, and is inspired by 1950s and '60s designs.

Winnie Ling and Scott Findley love the vibrancy and convenience of Wan Chai, but needed to feel relaxed at home in their 670 square foot walk-up flat.

Rebellious, but disciplined: these are the qualities Putman feels she took from her upbringing among the intelligentsia of Paris' Left Bank.

When Gary Fell first encountered the north-eastern coast of Koh Samui in 2003, the landscape was very different. Finding it under-developed for tourism and rife with traditional Thai-style dwellings, the architect wondered how well the newcomer

Designers suffered no lack of inspiration in the lead up to the Mandarin Oriental’s Parisian debut in August, with a fashion-focused French elegance inspired by its location driving much of the design.

If Hotel Cram could be personified it would make a good sultry brunette: sleek, sexy, unapproachable. For this reason the new Barcelona boutique hotel has been praised by many, and yet has also withstood some valid criticism.

A versatile penthouse apartment suits the work and social needs of a couple from two very different backgrounds.

The graphic designer and branding guru talks to Jo Baker about the importance of culture and capturing the spirit of Hong Kong.

When the world "homey" is used to describe a hotel it rarely applies to anything bigger than a few thousand square metres; very few people, after all, can call a manor house home. But for the non-mansion dwellers among us there are hotels like Casa..

TELLING STOREYS My work addresses not just the surfaces of things, but how architecture, urban space and buildings can tell a story, and how they can bring hope to often gloomy pasts. As a child of Holocaust survivors, who grew up under communist…

In a trendy industrial space bordering a West London canal, an eclectic series of objects sit on podiums, amid coffee drinkers and creative types at work. Among them are a ceramic chihuahua in a neckerchief, labelled by its creator, Zhou Lu, as a…

As a recent addition to the city of Siem Reap and Cambodia’s growing collection of high-end properties, the Hotel de la Paix stands out for both its modern sense of glamour, and its fashionable, yet careful appraisal of local Khmer culture.

A competition challenging architects to repurpose disused military installations for civic use.

Jo Baker profiles the only international humanitarian-oriented organisation to have pioneered design as a tool to fight disaster - Architecture for Humanity.

Implausible as it may seem, holiday accommodation in rural England isn't limited to twee little cottages, somber stately homes and drafty old castles with terrible...

Writer and popular philosopher Alain de Botton is on a mission to leave pastiche architecture in the dust.