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Workshops are the birthplace of the most wonderful creations, where people share knowledge and put skills into practice. It’s a space of intimacy, personality, and sociability–three characteristics embodied by the Diesel Open Workshop, a kitchen and

Redesigning your home, while exciting, can be quite a daunting task. There is a tendency to stick to plain colors, traditional-looking furniture, and conservative pieces due to the plethora of choices. These elements all seem to fit together perfectl

“Please be nice,” said one finalist. “Please be brutal,” said another. And so the World Architecture Festival finalists got an exhilarating and satisfying mix of tough queries, insightful comments, suggestions, and encouragement from the crowd of 80

Design architect Melvin Gamayot suffered sleepless nights back when he was figuring out how to redesign the Church of St. Alphonsus, better known to Catholic devotees in Singapore as the Novena Church. Inspiration came from the Old Testament’s First

Integrating Play and Reverence for the Dead—that’s how the architects and landscape architects of CIAP Architects and ONG&ONG headlined their submission to the World Architecture Festival. It’s a controversial juxtaposition that causes one to pause a

“Passion for architecture and sense of duty are important to us,” says Lim Koon Park, principal architect of Park + Associates. “Architecture is not just another job. You can’t insist on work-life balance, because you can’t look at the clock and say,

The number three seems to be a harbinger of good luck for this three-year-old practice based in Bangkok’s Talad Noi heritage quarters. Creative Crews’ first stab at the World Architecture Festival and INSIDE Festival of Interiors has yielded them thr

“WAF is the Oscars for architecture!” Phuttipan Aswakool, co-founder of Architectural Studio of Work-Aholic (ASWA), gushes when asked what pushed him and partner Chotiros Techamongklapiwat to join the prestigious competition for the first time. The t

“Form follows feeling—a collective or cultural feeling,” answers Wannaporn ‘Pui’ Phornprapha, founder and managing director of P Landscape, when asked for her opinion on the statement, ‘Form follows feeling.’ “We come from a culture where function of

The word ‘hypothesis’ predictably turns up a lot in our interview with this 20-man multi-awarded Bangkok-based firm. Going through the interview, one realizes that the studio’s mantra, ‘We always question to form a hypothesis,’ goes beyond a glib PR

“We would like to be acknowledged as a sustainable landscape design firm that placed environmental concern ahead,” professes TK Studio founder and managing director Tawatchai Kobkaikit. “We are fascinated with designs that relate to environmental con

“The process of ‘reinvention’ distinguishes all of our work—past and present—and rests on a duty to design well and to design responsibly, whether that is at the scale of an airport or a door handle,” states the boilerplate sent by Foster + Partners

For the young architecture and interior design studio, FLAT12x, there are two sides to the growing globalized approach to architecture. “It brings things together, which is good for us to mature and refine our work,” remarks co-founder Julsamano Bhon

“Culture imparts architecture with soul,” JUTI Architects founder Juti Klipbua offers when asked about the role context and culture play in the design of spaces. He cited two Thai case studies he says are evocative of the firm’s approach: the Vanessa

What do they like most about designing? The answers of Cor Jesu’s collaborators couldn’t be more different. “Connecting people and making them happy,” says Kenneth Cobonpue, the conceptual designer of the Sacred Heart School – Ateneo de Cebu chapel.

When John Ryan Santos attended the World Architecture Festival 2018, he figured, “We have something to show.” With climate change the most pressing concern in discussions at the festival, Santos felt it would be worthwhile to share his team’s ideas o

“Alero” is Spanish for “eave.” When brother and sister Jesy and Jaemi Cruz were studying interior design and architecture, their father, a civil engineer, would often admonish them to use generous eaves in their designs. “We live in a tropical countr

“My works always blur the boundaries between art and architecture. I articulate sensual spaces with meaning. Concept-driven projects that are sensitive to the environment, culture, and technology.” The 38-year-old graduate of the Architectural Associ

“It all starts with a story, a perspective of reality that we decide to act on. How we choose to act on this reality is a form of design. In my work, it’s important that what we create belongs to those who will use and maintain the building over time

“Winning is a blessing that was not expected,” says Benjee Mendoza, one of the principals of BAAD Studio, which the World Architecture Festival Super Jury awarded Highly Commended Future Building of the Year after BAAD won the Future Building – Civic