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Clever Cooling in Queen Astrid Park House in Singapore

The child growing up in this great hall of a house in a gorgeous climate has it good.

Like Ong & Ong and Guz architects before them, the architectural firm Aamer Architect embraces open air design and a sleek and sophisticated glamour.

Two key facts about Singapore account for its extraordinary architectural gems.

One. It’s only 85 miles from the equator.

And two. Wealth. With the world’s fourth-leading financial center globally, its five million residents have the third highest per capita income in the world.

Singapore’s financial wellbeing makes this kind of soaring architecture possible – and it’s proximity to the equator ensures open air design. Read the rest of this entry »

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Ong & Ong Practice a Little Contemporary Feng Shui

The JKC 1 House in the Bukit Timah neighborhood of Singapore from Ong &Ong is as sleek and sophisticated as you expect from the firm.

A wide open living space invites Singapore’s evening breezes in to the living area, with no boundaries.

Its interiors are polished and gleaming white, contrasted with the chocolaty richness of tropical woods.

A glossy black staircase connects a zen-like interior courtyard to the roof terrace.

This grey pebbled courtyard brings lavish daylight into the central part of the house.

This is open to the sky, and glassed in to make an outdoor area in the heart of the house.

On each side of the courtyard, entering or leaving the bedrooms, one would confront this central peaceful place.

At the end of the hallway, a light-filled and generous master bedroom combines contemporary refinement and Asian healing elements.

A very generous amount of space is used in traversing this large staircase-cum-courtyard with the bedrooms and playroom arrayed around it, but it is a key to the serene enjoyment of the spaciousness. Read the rest of this entry »

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Artist’s Space in a Lovely Building in Milan

A collaboration between a Japanese artist and the Italian design studio Modourbano has produced a sumptuous cultural blend in this renovation of an artists studio in the Sant’Ambrogio neighborhood of Milan.

The Italian firm and the artist Takane Ezoe worked together in creating the T House project, a sensitive restoration and adaptation of a landmark building.

Sited close to Sant’Ambrogio Basilica, they wanted to retain the traditions of the building’s beautiful proportions and grace.

The artist wanted no separation between public and private spaces, between work and cooking for friends – open spaces, without boundaries between public and private – where he could work until late at night. Read the rest of this entry »