Ideas

Notes from the studio floor

Occasional essays on designing and building in Malaysia — written by the people who draw and build our projects, not by a content agency.

Equatorial light is vertical, fierce and gone by 7:20pm. Here is how we shape rooms around it instead of fighting it with curtains.

The two materials clients ask for most are also the two most often mismatched. On temperature, grain and the humble brass shadow gap.

Deposits, by-laws, lift bookings and the walls you cannot touch — a plain-language field guide to high-rise renovation in Kuala Lumpur.

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The journal is general by nature. A first consultation is specific — your plan, your light, your budget.