Ploy House
Architect Pongsakorn Kitkajornpong has created two distinct living areas in this ‘housing compound’ in Thailand. Tonkao Panin explores the way the activities of a family have shaped the spaces in which they live.
P. Tendercool Home
The distance between Belgium and Bangkok is more than just physical. For Pieter Compernol, it’s a journey that inspired a new life and a table-obsessed business built on an imaginary personality – Nicky Lobo meets P.Tendercool.
Kitchai Jitkhajornwanich House
The owners of this house came to architect, Kitchai Jitkhajornwanich, saying: “We’ve bought an old house and need to re-program it to fit our lives.” Tonkao Panin reveals what happened next.
Kanoon Studio, Bangkok
This house by Kanoon Studio is nestled in a quiet residential neighborhood of Bangkok. Known for their distinctive design, Chartchalerm Klieopatinon and Vasuvat Mettapun here offer an alternative solution for an urban home.
26 Cable Road
The award-winning 26 Cable Road residence in Singapore by ip:li architects brings the best aspects of the ‘kampong’ or village life gently into the present. Janice Seow has this story.
Kanika Ratanapridakul House
Kanika R’kul led a wave of overseas-trained Thai architects who returned home to address the issue of how to design a contemporary Thai house without losing connection with traditional values. Tonkao Panin reviews her career.
Acharapan Paiboonsuvan House
When architect Boonlert Hemvijitraphan created a weekend house for Thai actress Acharapan Paiboonsuvan he transformed two old timber houses into a pavilion in two parts. Tonkao Panin discovers a house that has grown with its surrounding environment.
Rumah Kenangan House
Even in Asia, the extended family is giving way to the nuclear family. But there are still architects – and clients – wanting to explore the possibility of housing, if only on a temporary basis, the extended family. Typically, these experiments involve the idea of compound housing.
Damansara House
This addition to a house in Damansara Heights outside Kulala Lumpur in Malaysia is by a small, young two-man practice, RT+Q Architects. For Joanne Goh it is a revealing example of how vernacular forms can be reinterpreted for contemporary purposes.
VIDEO: Domestic Workshop
Paul McGillick discovers the intriguing inner-suburban Sydney home of architect Richard Peters.
Skylight House
Chenchow Little is an award-winning practice that has provided architectural and interior architecture services since 1994.
31 Blair Road
Singapore-based architectural firm Ong&Ong has created a surprising contemporary residence by remodeling the inside of a three-story townhouse.