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Do you find it hard to sleep properly in your small flat or studio? Experts offer tips that will help you get a good night’s rest, from changing your environment to using a diffuser (above) to reducing external stimulation. Photo: Shutterstock

Health & Wellness

Can’t sleep well in your studio or small flat? Try these 5 expert tips

Do you find it hard to sleep properly in your small flat or studio? Experts offer tips that will help you get a good night’s rest, from changing your environment to reducing external stimulation.

25 Jul 2024 - 5:23AM

Feng shui office designer on how to create ‘balance’ in workspaces

20 Aug 2024 - 12:30PM

Singaporean architect goes viral on TikTok with feng shui videos

9 Aug 2024 - 12:44PM

Health & Wellness

Wellness is at the forefront of today’s home design – using AI, art and tech

Health-centric technologies are being used to make self-care ‘a cornerstone of modern living spaces’ – think smart mattresses, and interactive art that can ‘transform you based on your movement, heartbeat or mood’.

29 Jun 2024 - 6:15PM

Using biometric data and adaptive technologies, smart home systems can adjust lighting, temperature and even decor in real time to suit individual moods and activities in our homes. Photo: Shutterstock

Design & Interiors

Mid-century modern with Eastern sensibility in a Hong Kong couple’s home

A homeowner was so impressed with the understated mid-century modern refurbishment of her home in Pok Fu Lam, on Hong Kong Island, that she joined the design studio that carried it out.

16 Jun 2024 - 11:15AM

Design & Interiors

Serving the people for 106 years: Hong Kong’s YMCA Bridges Street Centre

The YMCA centre in Sheung Wan, which opened with what were then cutting-edge sporting facilities, has served the community since 1918. Part of it is now a hostel for the intellectually disabled.

29 May 2024 - 10:53AM

Design & Interiors

Abandoned, mouldy, but couple saw the potential of rural Hong Kong flat

An innovative couple on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island show you don’t have to spend a lot of money to create a welcoming, original home bursting with colour and character.

18 May 2024 - 1:15PM

The living room of the renovated apartment on Lantau Island. Photo: Eugene Chan. Styling: Flavia Markovits

Design & Interiors

This Hong Kong home is minimalist, open-plan – and perfect for cats

A Sham Tseng flat, in the New Territories, was renovated with the owners’ cats in mind – think bespoke feline furniture, scratch-proof flooring paired with hidden storage and Japanese-style decor.

11 May 2024 - 11:15AM

A Sham Tseng flat, in the New Territories in Hong Kong, was renovated with the owners’ cats in mind – think bespoke feline furniture, scratch-proof flooring paired with hidden storage and Japanese-style decor. Photo: Tracy Wong

Arts & Culture

‘Extraordinary’ Hong Kong buildings designed by local architects

Seventy local buildings and urban spaces designed by Hong Kong architects are celebrated in Raymond Fung’s Untold Stories: Hong Kong Architecture, with a focus on public amenities.

11 May 2024 - 7:39AM

Arts & Culture

‘A Hong Kong story’: typography show explores Kowloon communities

A new Hong Kong exhibition at Gate33 in Kai Tak’s Airside uses typography to explore the built environments, communities and culture of Wong Tai Sin, San Po Kong, Kowloon City and To Kwa Wan.

25 Apr 2024 - 1:12PM

Design & Interiors

Timeless luxury in Hong Kong flat renovated for couple’s retirement

Appreciation of ‘the finer things in life’ guided designers in a luxury revamp that turned a 2,035 sq ft apartment in Lai Chi Kok, Hong Kong, into a home for a couple’s retirement.

20 Apr 2024 - 12:20PM

The sophisticated living room of a luxuriously renovated apartment in Lai Chi Kok, Hong Kong. Photo: hoo

Design & Interiors

Barbie-inspired Hong Kong home ‘feels just right when you walk in’

Polished and playful in equal measure, the Barbie Dreamhouse-inspired Ho Man Tin home of a young family shows it may be possible to please everyone.

13 Apr 2024 - 11:15AM

Polished and playful in equal measure, the Barbie Dreamhouse-inspired Ho Man Tin home of a young family shows it may be possible to please everyone. Above: detail from the bedroom of girls aged four and five. Photo: Addy Cheung

Design & Interiors

Mix of textures creates chic urban pad that’s comforting and inviting

An outdated 1,100 sq ft Mid-Levels apartment has been transformed into a microcosm of Hong Kong, with its balance of energy and serenity capturing the duality of the Fragrant Harbour.

9 Apr 2024 - 12:51PM

Design & Interiors

Art is part of the furniture in this Hong Kong home: it ‘inspires creativity’

A Hong Kong art gallery owner’s hilltop family home in the New Territories is a kaleidoscope of vibrant, fun artworks – every room inspires creativity and tells a different story.

22 Mar 2024 - 12:45PM

Design & Interiors

Library or forest? World’s biggest library reading space, in Beijing, is both

The world’s largest library reading space, housed by the Beijing City Library in China’s capital, was inspired by nature – think rice paddies, a river and trees – and designed to be something of a social space.

20 Mar 2024 - 12:40PM

The world’s largest library reading space, in the Beijing City Library in China’s capital, was inspired by nature and designed to be something of a social space. Photo: Yumeng Zhu

Design & Interiors

Soothing avocado green, French simplicity in this Hong Kong home’s makeover

A Hong Kong-based client’s favourite colour shade was not only on trend, it was also the perfect hue to turn her 520 sq ft Tsuen Wan flat into a relaxing sanctuary.

10 Mar 2024 - 11:15AM

The high-rise apartment in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, designed by MT Design makes use of avocado as the primary colour, as seen in the faux wainscot (above) in the dining room, and in the kitchen behind. Photo: Samson Lau

Family & Relationships

Forget Ikea – how sustainable slow decorating has become a new home trend

There’s slow fashion, food, travel – and now decorating, the sustainable home trend fighting against fast furniture like Ikea that encompasses vintage pieces, upcycling and quality that lasts.

9 Mar 2024 - 6:15PM

Design & Interiors

‘A perfect retirement home’: 510 sq ft Hong Kong apartment with Bauhaus form

This 510 sq ft retirement apartment in Hong Kong’s Tai Hang neighbourhood has been given a Bauhaus-inspired renovation that will allow its elderly occupants to age in place – and comfort.

29 Feb 2024 - 11:21AM

Design & Interiors

How a design journalist’s Hong Kong village house evolved over 20 years

A design journalist reflects on the house in a village in Hong Kong’s Sai Kung district she called home for 20 years, and how the homes she wrote about influenced numerous upgrades to its interiors.

22 Feb 2024 - 1:06PM

The living room of a Sai Kung village house designed by Hintegro. A design journalist reflects on the house in Hong Kong she called home for 20 years, and how it evolved along with her changing circumstances. Photo: Desmond Chan

Design & Interiors

When the covers came off The Blue hotel, Taipei ‘paused for a moment’

Pair whose focus is the need for an architecture that responds to a world being manipulated by AI, and for Emotional cities not Smart cities, put their ideas into practice in design of The Blue in Taipei.

19 Feb 2024 - 9:39AMvideocam

The Blue, in Taipei, by Spheron Architects. Its designers talk about conceiving the hotel according to Emotionalist principles they set out in a manifesto that calls for architecture to counter an “ever-digitising world” where they fear humans are losing control. Photo: Yu Zhi Lin

Design & Interiors

Now a Hong Kong university campus, its darker past is of war and prisoners

Nestled in verdant Pok Fu Lam, the University of Chicago’s Hong Kong campus tells the story of the city’s wartime defeat to the Japanese and of its buildings’ subsequent occupants: prisoners.

19 Feb 2024 - 11:37AM

Design & Interiors

The outdoors is the artwork in a Hong Kong home with stunning green views

Harbour views are prized in Hong Kong, but a renovation of a flat with huge windows makes the most of its vistas of verdant hillsides to create a restful interior with notes of wood and stone.

12 Feb 2024 - 1:15PM

Design & Interiors

Artist’s line drawing inspires Hong Kong home design with a Balinese vibe

A Hong Kong village house with a Balinese vibe brings Scandinavian, Moroccan and Japanese elements together seamlessly – and it all started with a single-line drawing.

28 Jan 2024 - 11:15AM

Interior designer Jocelyn Liipfert Lam on the sofa she designed and Hardwood HK made for the home in South Lantau. Photo: Common Studio

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