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Residence covers architecture and interiors as lived philosophy: how arrival is designed, how hospitality rooms influence homes, and how garden traditions, minimalism, and courtyard logic shape contemporary luxury living.

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

The Garden in the Picture Frame

At Nezu Museum in Aoyama, Kengo Kuma’s bamboo approach and glass entrance hall manufacture cultural authority by putting garden and collection into one continuous frame before any gallery label appears.

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Essential Reading in Residence

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

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

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

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

Designing a Contemporary Courtyard House

The ancient courtyard typology, reinterpreted for modern living.

Modern residence entrance with stone paving and layered landscaping

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

Singapore's forgotten mansion, remembered

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

What Park Hyatt Kyoto Teaches About Arrival

Modern residence entrance with stone paving and layered landscaping

Architecture and the Art of Arrival

Modern home with interior courtyard

Designing a Contemporary Courtyard House

Editor's Route

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

Kyoto's Machiya Grammar for the Modern Household

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

Asian Minimalism Is Not an Empty Room

Japanese room with shoji screens opening to a garden view

Interiors Inspired by Garden Traditions

Luxury hotel lobby lounge

Why Hospitality Design Is Influencing Luxury Homes

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

Bamboo Grove Above the Kabukiza

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

Water Mirror and the Contemplative Space

Luminous spherical auditorium and terraced central atrium of Tianjin Binhai Library

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

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

Kyoto's Machiya Grammar for the Modern Household

House of Tan Yeok Nee, Penang Road, Singapore

Singapore's forgotten mansion, remembered

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

What Park Hyatt Kyoto Teaches About Arrival

Modern home with interior courtyard

Designing a Contemporary Courtyard House

Luxury hotel lobby lounge

Why Hospitality Design Is Influencing Luxury Homes

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

Asian Minimalism Is Not an Empty Room

Modern residence entrance with stone paving and layered landscaping

Architecture and the Art of Arrival

Japanese room with shoji screens opening to a garden view

Interiors Inspired by Garden Traditions