@designunplugged

designunplugged has been a member of Linktree for 6 years and joined in May 2020. The social media accounts linked to from designunplugged are: SoundCloud, LinkedIn. Besides social media accounts, designunplugged has populated their site with Jia Curated 2026: the festival imagining a different future for Bali, A farewell tour through the flats, fashions and fixations that defined our design editor’s 22 years at PostMag | South China Morning Post, Architect Billie Tsien on identity, fear and doing Duolingo | South China Morning Post, A farewell tour through the flats, fashions and fixations that defined our design editor’s 22 years at PostMag | South China Morning Post, Have architects built boredom into our streetscapes, and can it harm our health? | South China Morning Post, Hainan holiday home blends bold design with nature’s serenity | South China Morning Post, Rewilding the city: the urban forests of Asia | South China Morning Post, An interior designer on the challenge of finally designing for his own home | South China Morning Post, Norman Foster’s hi-tech HSBC masterpiece turns 40 | South China Morning Post, Clinically Bland - why boring buildings are getting you down, TST flat transformed with clever lighting, How 3D printing combined with traditional Chinese wooden construction is helping resurrect a century-old village in rural China | South China Morning Post, A Wong Kar-wai film set? No, it’s an old Shanghai-style family home in Jing-An | South China Morning Post, Pantone’s ‘colour’ of the year, AI and other forces shaping interiors in 2026 | South China Morning Post, Is fungus the future of furniture across Asia? | South China Morning Post, Can architecture be fleeting? Check out these transient structures and see | South China Morning Post, How designers engineered flow in a young family’s home | South China Morning Post, Architect Billie Tsien on identity, fear and doing Duolingo | South China Morning Post, Inside the Hong Kong flat where everything is carefully curated – even the cat | South China Morning Post, How one Hong Kong couple transformed a derelict junk into a weekend retreat | South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s historical shops preserve city’s unique charm and craftsmanship | South China Morning Post, Treasure hunting: Ross Urwin on a lifetime of collecting design icons | South China Morning Post, How Le Corbusier and French bubble houses inspired this Lamma Island renovation | South China Morning Post, Solar fish pond devices boost growth with less labour in San Tin, Hong Kong | South China Morning Post, Why a design duo’s family home celebrates imperfection, memory and grandma’s ceramics | South China Morning Post, How a small Hong Kong flat makes space for music, fashion and fun | South China Morning Post, Courtyard house in Kunming, Nelson Chow designed this Hong Kong home with ‘the essence of a chapel’ for devoted Christian parents | South China Morning Post, The world is discovering bamboo scaffolding – as Hong Kong phases it out | South China Morning Post, 6 talents from Hong Kong and mainland China to catch at Singapore Design Week | South China Morning Post, This flexible Hong Kong flat can be transformed to suit its owners’ needs | South China Morning Post, What to see at Singapore Design Week, from cyborg cockroaches to food of the future | South China Morning Post, My story about Singapore's first 3D-printed house, Hong Kong history, one tile at a time, A designer worked his magic on a boxy 1980s Mid-Levels apartment, Inside One Bedford Place, an architect’s nostalgic tribute to old Hong Kong, Metabolism in Motion: Nakagin Capsule Tower.pdf, How do Hong Kong’s old shops preserve the city’s history and charm?, Design & Interiors: Latest Design & Interiors news and features from PostMag | South China Morning Post, Are our sustainability efforts actually worth it?, EXTRACT from Enid Tsui's book, Art in Hong Kong: Portrait of a City in Flux, Painstakingly made, these products are also unique pieces of art, Bike as art; plants for harmony, A piece of Hong Kong in your living room, How one Hong Kong family turned their flat into a Kyoto-inspired sanctuary, Unveiling the stories of early Japanese residents in Hong Kong Cemetery, Excerpt from ART IN HONG KONG: Portrait of a City in Flux, The award-winning Hong Kong recycling centre that looks like a hotel, How humble rattan furniture is experiencing a modern renaissance, How an 18th century Dutch house was restored by an ex-Hong Kong resident, How a Hong Kong film inspired the revival of 9 post-war buildings, How this family home creates positive head spaces to live, work and play, How Japan's innovative Nakagin Capsule Tower is finding new life, Our top 5 home interiors of 2024, from Japan’s Karuizawa to Hong Kong’s Lantau, Why this British couple went for a ‘midimalist’ home in Bath, Meet these custom woodworkers boring into a bespoke niche in Hong Kong, How Japan’s innovative Nakagin Capsule Tower is finding new life, Inside the biggest art event in the US, featuring 800-plus artists, This forgotten border village shows Hong Kong’s history of change, The design secrets of Hong Kong’s private housing estates, Three books on feminism – from abortion rights to toxic masculinity, From Discovery Bay to Pok Fu Lam: a family’s stylish home transformation, Can you really distil the taste of whisky in an art installation?, Why Chinese science fiction is having more than a moment, Post Magazine: Art, Culture, Design and Long Reads | South China Morning Post, Post Magazine (my SCMP Design section), Curators, son on architect I.M. Pei’s ‘complicated’ Hong Kong retrospective, ‘The a-ha moment’: Henry Steiner on his 60-plus years in Hong Kong design, Conversion of Chinese courtyard house to B&B takes ‘simple living’ approach, ‘Extraordinary’ Hong Kong buildings designed by local architects, Why Hong Kong dog shelters are struggling to survive, 3 bars in Hong Kong with vibes and designs that hit the spot, ‘A Hong Kong story’: typography show explores Kowloon communities, Design Doha in Post Magazine, SCMP, Mix of textures creates chic urban pad that’s comforting and inviting, Space pigs to Soviet motifs, a chaotic contemporary Chinese art collection, WHERE TO FIND Design Citywalk HK.docx, Design Citywalk HK, ‘It sparks discussion’: curvaceous new Hong Kong skyscraper The Henderson, Warm wood, tree-like columns – new Union Church connected to nature and past, 360-year-old abandoned Hong Kong Hakka village is born again, ‘Full of adventures’: inside China’s award-winning school campus, He made a minimalist, airy 500 sq ft Hong Kong flat that ‘tells a story’, Outdoor desks, indoor decor: experts pick their 2024 home design trends, Creating communities in Hong Kong is ‘maddening and fun’: meet Marisa Yiu, 18 captivating artworks on 4 islands reveal another side of Hong Kong life, Light flows through a family home with enlarged windows, glass balustrades, Low-key and shopping rarely go together in Hong Kong. They do here, In novel of a mother-daughter relationship the smallest things matter, A blank canvas: how an unlovely Macau house became a whimsical art cave, How revitalised Hong Kong park is using design to bring a community together, Singapore’s Find Design Fair: a showcase of tradition and technology, How 3D printing is helping resurrect a century-old village in rural China, They want you to embrace Hong Kong’s historic Brutalist buildings, Karmapa controversy, Eye-opening. Mind-stretching. A trio of hotels in Japan marry design and nature, Lily Jencks on landscaping Frank Gehry's Hong Kong cancer centre, Raze and rebuild? No, adapt and reuse, Chinese architecture firm says, Flash fiction stories: can you tell if these are AI-created or by humans?, Mid-century touches, homelike vibes: this is an office you won’t want to leave, Shape-shifting micro-flat so innovative a museum recreated it. Not for keeps, Hong Kong at Venice 2023: how sustainable design can shape city’s future, A Hong Kong village house so different, people like to stop and stare, ‘The simplest, dumbest materials’: how art gallery stands out by blending in, Unconventional, packed with limited editions: Hong Kong Art Book Fair 2023, Multifunctional design magic, from furniture to interactive ceramics, He’d never designed a hotel before he took on the Regent Hong Kong renovation, THE ALARMIST podcast: The Aftermath - The 1995 Tokyo Sarin Subway Attack, What is good restaurant design? How experts in Hong Kong tackle it, Crafts masters young and old team up in Hong Kong to create beautiful pieces, Mrs, Ms, Miss, Mx - Why gender-based honorifics need a rethink, Paper stools, blood powder planters: the future of sustainable homewares, 2023 interior design trends – bold colours, optimism, curves, big kitchens, History and needs of the elderly inspire latest Hong Kong urban micro-park, Stanley Wong’s new show reveals ad man/artist in his various incarnations, Hong Kong house makes coming home feel like going on holiday, 70-plus restaurants in Asia raise funds to help feed families in Ukraine, They called him ‘The Chinese’: rags-to-success story of architect Chi Wing Lo, ‘They solve many problems’: floating cities and structures around the world, After K-pop, K-drama and K-fashion, will K-design be Korea’s next big export?, Cantonese opera the star of new snack shop at Hong Kong’s Xiqu Centre, The children’s library whose shelves are as much for play as for books, Hong Kong farm grows greens using water, fish and smart interior design, High-end furniture made of scrap a sustainable success for Piet Hein Eek, ‘We design in the East, for the East’: architect’s celebration of Asian style, Transparent, blue, Instagrammable, Hong Kong pop-up cake shop is a winner, Post Magazine (my SCMP Books section), Courtyard Living: Contemporary Houses of the Asia-Pacific, 2nd edition, Greenery in the concrete jungle: architect brings nature into living spaces, His story is also the story of Hong Kong: Alan Chan, designer, EXTRACT: THE HONG KONG DIARIES, by Chris Patten, Simon Westcott: publisher turned counsellor on death, and abuse at school, "WATER ALWAYS WINS" by Erica Gies, The Stories Behind Abortion, ‘A mini-architectural piece’: luxury dog kennel contest stretches designers, Courtyard Living (my Thames & Hudson book), What future homes will be like: ‘living’ materials, hybrid work spaces, Why a new multistorey skatepark in the UK could work perfectly in Hong Kong, How ‘poetic’ sight of abandoned home made Hong Kong artist urban explorer, Rocco Yim on his bold design for new performing arts centre in Shenzhen, ‘Black devils’: when African students were chased out of China’s cities, Ditty to Omicron in Hong Kong, Counterpoint, on ABC National: Chemicals in the Ocean, Bill Bensley's most ambitious project takes him to the Congo, ‘Something we have never seen before. And already know’: the NUNO paradox, High-end tiles made from eggshells that sell for US$600 per square metre, Green roof the crowning glory of a transformed factory in Shenzhen, China, Anything but dull: post-war Hong Kong Modernist buildings celebrated, ‘The magic of simplicity’: good design focus of Red Dot show in Hong Kong, 100 years of James Joyce’s Ulysses, ‘the greatest book of the 20th century’, Why a Tokyo Sushi Bar is a Star Exhibit at M+, Marvel at Uselessness : There’s Something Beyond What We See | Nikolas Ettel | TEDxHKU, Hong Kong's OOA win sustainability award for WaterHall in Cambodia, BODW Chinese architects on “human survival”, Why the pandemic is ‘a prompt to rethink our living spaces’, Restaurant murals in HK, Miss, Mrs, Ms, or Mx? None of the above, thank you, Post Magazine M+ special issue, Thomassons - the forgotten architectural features that dot HK streets, Post Books Podcast | Podcasts | South China Morning Post, My Earth Detox story in Post Magazine, The Mills Fabrica, Portland Street Rest Garden, UNKNOWN: Brutalism in Hong Kong, Minoru Nomata, Post Books Podcast on Spotify: Larry Feign, “The Flower Boat Girl”, Post Books Podcast on Google: Larry Feign, "The Flower Boat Girl", Post Magazine story about Larry Feign's "The Flower Boat Girl", SCMP article about the Post Books Podcast, Keeping vertical gardens alive, Designing a World for Everyone, The Hotel of Tomorrow, This is what public spaces will be like post-pandemic, The future of hospitals, Kit that may calm fears about returning to the office, LIFE (SCMP's lifestyle section), Ma Yansong, MAD Architects, George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, My article about Tom Vanderbilt's new book, BEGINNERS, Yi Pei Square Playground, Design Trust Futures Studio, Biophilic architecture, Fort Street Studio's A Tale of Warp and Weft, THE ARCH: why the timeless architectural form is back on trend.