THE HOMES YOU WON’T BELIEVE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY

Eco Smart Studio LEAD
It’s hard to believe this studio apartment is just 400-square-feet and located within the beating heart of Hong Kong, on Hollywood Road, Central. Bespoke furniture and cabinetry cleverly maximise and conceal storage while double-glazed windows keep the buzz of the city outside. A rooftop terrace provides a place to relax, meditate, exercise or enjoy enviable views of the city’s skyline.

Unfurled House
A Federation façade on one end and a modern, monochromatic structure on the other. Cellular rooms and various indoor-outdoor connections make up the Unfurled House. Christopher Polly Architect has created a series of conflicting – and yet unbroken – spaces within the Unfurled House.

High House
Tim Ross may have likened the humble terrace to creepy-crawlies calling them the cockroaches of the design world – the impression being that they just won’t die – earlier this year at MID, but he obviously hadn’t seen the High House by Dan Gayfer Design – an inner-city terrace dreams are made of.

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Holly Cunneen

Holly Cunneen was the editor of Habitus and has spent her time in the media writing about architecture, design and our local industry. With a firm view that “design has a shared responsibility to the individual as much as it does the wider community,” her personal and professional trajectory sees her chart the interests, accomplishments, and emerging patterns of behaviour within the architecture and design community.