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The Seasons Residences Opened a Guest House in BGC

Federal Land opened a four-bedroom guest house at The Seasons Residences in mid-September. Homeowners can rent it when family flies in. The company has not posted a rate.

Single-storey Guest House pavilion with a dark hip roof beside a gravel garden and stepping stones, residential towers behind, at The Seasons Residences in Bonifacio Global City
House of Remembrance in Singapore at dusk: a grey hipped roof with a small window glowing above a granite gate

Buy the Family Niche Before the Guest Suite

TOTO NEOREST NX2 integrated smart toilet with ACTILIGHT lid glow on a dark studio backdrop

Specify the Washlet Before the Marble

Hotakubo Daiichi public housing courtyard-facing elevation with vaulted balcony roofs and laundry, Kumamoto

Hotakubo's Courtyard Has a Hundred Doors

Spa jacuzzi and lounge chairs at Aman Residences Tokyo with Tokyo Tower visible through floor-to-ceiling windows

When the Building Becomes the Country Club

Start Here

Essential Reading in Residence

Open-plan suite interior at Maana Kiyomizu with plaster walls, washi lanterns, and a glimpse of inner courtyard greenery
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Kyoto's Machiya Grammar for the Modern Household

At Maana Kiyomizu, four restored townhouses show how Kyoto's narrow wooden houses supply a domestic language that travels far beyond Higashiyama.

House of Tan Yeok Nee, Penang Road, Singapore
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Singapore's forgotten mansion, remembered

The last of the Four Grand Mansions has reopened after 140 years — a monument to Teochew craft, patronage, and the city that nearly forgot it.

Yasaka-dori at dawn with street lanterns and the Yasaka Pagoda, Higashiyama, Kyoto
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What Park Hyatt Kyoto Teaches About Arrival

Tony Chi's low-rise Higashiyama hotel is a masterclass in threshold, garden, and the hotel logic luxury homes now borrow.

Modern home with interior courtyard
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Designing a Contemporary Courtyard House

The ancient courtyard typology, reinterpreted for modern living.

Modern residence entrance with stone paving and layered landscaping
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Architecture and the Art of Arrival

The first impression a home makes is its most lasting.

Editor's Route

Architecture & Arrival

Thresholds, porticos, and the first impression a home makes.

House of Tan Yeok Nee, Penang Road, Singapore
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Singapore's forgotten mansion, remembered

Yasaka-dori at dawn with street lanterns and the Yasaka Pagoda, Higashiyama, Kyoto
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What Park Hyatt Kyoto Teaches About Arrival

Modern residence entrance with stone paving and layered landscaping
Residence

Architecture and the Art of Arrival

Modern home with interior courtyard
Residence

Designing a Contemporary Courtyard House

Editor's Route

The Great Asian Room

One exceptional interior at a time: civic atriums, tea rooms, museum halls.

Luminous spherical auditorium and terraced central atrium of Tianjin Binhai Library
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The Eye and the Books That Aren’t There

Jugetsudo Kabukiza dining room with layered bamboo ceiling and garden view through glass, Ginza
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Bamboo Grove Above the Kabukiza

Contemplative Space pavilion floating in the Water Mirror Garden at the D.T. Suzuki Museum, Kanazawa
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Water Mirror and the Contemplative Space

Nezu Museum entrance under deep tiled eaves with glass hall, Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo
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The Garden in the Picture Frame

Link bridges and tree-like steel columns under the filigree roof of the Padang Atrium, National Gallery Singapore
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The Padang Atrium Filters the Day

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Interiors & Material

Minimalism, gardens, and hospitality's influence on the home.

Open-plan suite interior at Maana Kiyomizu with plaster walls, washi lanterns, and a glimpse of inner courtyard greenery
Residence

Kyoto's Machiya Grammar for the Modern Household

Minimal interior with wood ceiling, stone floor, and controlled daylight
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Asian Minimalism Is Not an Empty Room

Japanese room with shoji screens opening to a garden view
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Interiors Inspired by Garden Traditions

Luxury hotel lobby lounge
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Why Hospitality Design Is Influencing Luxury Homes

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More in Residence

Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi lobby with oak columns, navy lounge chairs, and a shinkansen passing beyond the glass
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A Manor Beside Tokyo Station

Cassina 3to9 table lamp by Neri&Hu with translucent ivory fabric panels on a bronze wire frame
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Hang the Kite Above the Table

Aman Tokyo 33rd-floor lobby with soaring washi-paper lantern atrium, dark stone floor, and low lounge seating
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A Lantern Above Otemachi

Authors' Lounge at Mandarin Oriental Bangkok with grand white staircase, wicker seating, bamboo, and skylight
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Wicker Under the Authors' Skylight

Central courtyard garden with trees, stone paths, and aluminium-finned walls at Amorepacific Headquarters, Yongsan, Seoul
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A Courtyard Above Hangang-daero

White biomorphic islands, trees, and water curtain of the Waterfall Garden atrium at The Hyundai Seoul, Yeouido
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A Twelve-Metre Waterfall in Yeouido

Link bridges and tree-like steel columns under the filigree roof of the Padang Atrium, National Gallery Singapore
Residence

The Padang Atrium Filters the Day

Nezu Museum entrance under deep tiled eaves with glass hall, Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo
Residence

The Garden in the Picture Frame

Jugetsudo Kabukiza dining room with layered bamboo ceiling and garden view through glass, Ginza
Residence

Bamboo Grove Above the Kabukiza

Contemplative Space pavilion floating in the Water Mirror Garden at the D.T. Suzuki Museum, Kanazawa
Residence

Water Mirror and the Contemplative Space

Luminous spherical auditorium and terraced central atrium of Tianjin Binhai Library
Residence

The Eye and the Books That Aren’t There

George Town row-house façade on Leith Street with colorful timber shutters and ground-floor shop signs
Residence

George Town Shophouse Grammar for the Diaspora Household

Open-plan suite interior at Maana Kiyomizu with plaster walls, washi lanterns, and a glimpse of inner courtyard greenery
Residence

Kyoto's Machiya Grammar for the Modern Household

House of Tan Yeok Nee, Penang Road, Singapore
Residence

Singapore's forgotten mansion, remembered

Yasaka-dori at dawn with street lanterns and the Yasaka Pagoda, Higashiyama, Kyoto
Residence

What Park Hyatt Kyoto Teaches About Arrival

Modern home with interior courtyard
Residence

Designing a Contemporary Courtyard House

Luxury hotel lobby lounge
Residence

Why Hospitality Design Is Influencing Luxury Homes

Minimal interior with wood ceiling, stone floor, and controlled daylight
Residence

Asian Minimalism Is Not an Empty Room

Modern residence entrance with stone paving and layered landscaping
Residence

Architecture and the Art of Arrival

Japanese room with shoji screens opening to a garden view
Residence

Interiors Inspired by Garden Traditions