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Solar Design Services founder Vishal J Singh is passionate about building your dream home.

The Guardian picks it as one of the world’s top industrial-chic hotels and hostels.

In the near future, you can truly multitask with just a smartphone application: Brush your teeth, check your calendar and email, and watch the news in the bathroom via the monitor screen-cum-mirror. Instead of wearing a fitness tracker on your wrist, you can monitor your sleep with a Samsung sleep monitor underneath your mattress that will analyse your heart and respiratory rates to give you a personalised report and sleep score every morning.

Introducing SP01, a new range of Scandi-modern furnishings conceived by Australian luxury furniture retailer Space that aims to bridge the gap between commercial and residential interiors. Matt Lorrain, the brand’s head of design and product development, explains.

Rumah Degil survived the Japanese occupation, Communist insurgency, May 13 riots and even the transformation of Chow Kit from a village with similar houses on either side to a commercial centre and rather shady district with its fair share of drug addicts and prostitutes. But it finally fell to the forces of commercialisation when the family who owned it sold it to developers.

Shahril, who founded his eponymous brand in 2014, defines good design as innovative, novel and unique, and that deviate from the usual approach and can shift perceptions.

Rather than being just an art form, architecture should be the art of problem-solving, said Rocco S K Yim, executive director and founder of Hong Kong-based Rocco Design Architects, at the Datum:KL 2015 International Architectural Design Conference. Organised by the Malaysian Institute of Architects, it was held in Kuala Lumpur.

Entrepreneur Priti Devi says dressing your home is easy if you buy what you love and prioritise quality — and she shows you how to with her luxury home accessory and interior styling portal, decorator’s notebook.

With a hill bordering its backyard and lush water plants inside, a home in Kota Kemuning communes easily with nature.