For climate and culture: Meet 4 architecture firms in Southeast Asia integrating environmental responsibility in design

Malaysia’s architectural profession is experiencing a period of renewed collective action, exemplified by the self-funded Malaysian Architecture Weeks 2025 exhibition featuring 34 practices. Among the participants, four firms have distinguished themselves through explicit commitments to environmental responsibility and contextual sensitivity.

Loka Studio (Indonesia), Think Cloud Design Lab, Mentahmatter Design, and Eleena Jamil Architect operate within Southeast Asia’s complex design environment, where tropical climate, urban density, and heritage conservation requirements intersect with rapid development pressures.

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In the arithmetic of Hollywood, box office numbers tell the ultimate story of star power. With the release of Jurassic World: Rebirth, Scarlett Johansson officially shattered the glass ceiling, becoming the highest-grossing leading actor in motion picture history with a US$14.85 billion worldwide gross, according to figures by The Numbers. Her achievement is groundbreaking, accomplished through several films where she had a leading or significant role—propelling her past Hollywood heavyweights and Marvel co-stars like Samuel L Jackson and Robert Downey Jr. Here are the actress’s biggest blockbusters that built her box office empire.

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Apart from being one of the ultimate benchmarks of tennis, Wimbledon is a two-week showcase of quintessential elegance where spectator fashion rivals the action on court. The tournament’s dress code sets the tone: smart-casual elegance in the public stands—think tailored linens and chic summer dresses—while the exclusive Royal Box demands stricter standards: gentlemen in lounge suits or tailored jackets with ties, and ladies dressed smartly, typically without hats to preserve sightlines. This year’s parade of style was as thrilling as the matches themselves, with impeccably dressed attendees, from Queen Camilla to Cate Blanchett, all understanding that, at Wimbledon, dressing well is a sport in itself.

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If there’s one unspoken rule in Asian kitchens, it might be this: everything tastes better when there’s something hiding inside.

Across the region, entire food traditions are built on the act of wrapping, folding or tucking one ingredient into another. It’s part craft, part instinct and wholly satisfying—because inside every stuffed food lies something more than just filling. It’s labour, recollections and comfort packed into dough, leaf or gelatinous shell. Some are hand-pinched with surgical precision. Others are scrappy, rustic and meant to be eaten in two unceremonious bites. But they all deliver the same thrill: bite in, and surprise awaits.

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In the high-stakes, hyper-styled fantasy of Korean dramas, a wristwatch is never just a wristwatch. It’s a calling card, a calculated gesture and sometimes a silent confession. Whether ticking beneath a tailored sleeve or glinting under chandelier light, the right wrist candy does more than complete a look—it deepens the character. And in K-dramas, every detail is deliberate.

These are the watches in K-dramas that are almost characters themselves, capturing entire personas in steel, gold or ceramic.

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