Inside a futuristic District 20 landed home that takes inspiration from nature

With its array of eye-catching skyscrapers and beautiful gardens, Singapore is seen as a city geared towards the future, marrying urban density with greenery to create liveable environments. This particular house by Czarl Architects has a futuristic countenance that embodies the city’s forward-looking attitude and its desire to balance the beauty of nature with the comforts of urban life, not unlike how Singapore’s built landscape came to be. 

This house is home to a Singaporean family of four and their pet Pomsky dog, Yuzu. Situated in Singapore’s leafy District 20, the site enjoys proximity to the verdant local parks and the city’s largest nature reserve. As captivating as the nearby greenery can be, it does come with some everyday challenges. Insects are commonplace, and the local wildlife is known to sometimes wander into residential areas foraging for food.

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As the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize arrives in Singapore for the first time, this year’s edition turns its attention to works shaped by experimentation, material transformation and technical risk. Held at National Gallery Singapore, the ninth edition of the annual award has named South Korean ceramic artist Jongjin Park the winner of its 2026 prize.

Park was awarded the €50,000 prize for Strata of Illusion (2025), a seat-like ceramic form that appears simultaneously controlled and collapsing. Built from thousands of layered sheets of paper coated in coloured porcelain slip, the work undergoes a dramatic transformation in the kiln: the paper burns away, leaving the structure to slump and distort under heat and gravity. The resulting form feels architectural yet fragile, suspended somewhere between precision and surrender.

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She finishes a reformer class on Orchard Road and walks straight into a boutique. No outfit change, no second thought. In Singapore, activewear and everyday dressing stopped being separate categories a long time ago—and NikeSkims, dropping here on May 14, 2026, arrives knowing exactly that.

The brand is young—Skims only launched in 2019—but co-founders Kim Kardashian and Jens Grede built it with a very clear obsession: how fabric actually behaves on a woman’s body. Compression, drape, texture, silhouette. Nike, meanwhile, has spent decades on the science side—movement data, sports performance, and Dri-Fit that genuinely earns its keep in this climate. Put the two together and you get something more that goes beyond the average collaboration: technical fabric that also knows how to flatter. That’s not a small thing. Good-looking activewear and activewear that looks good on you are very different products.

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Nicknamed “Little Kyoto”, Kanazawa may not top the itinerary of first-time visitors to Japan, but seasoned travellers will tell you it’s a gem worth keeping under wraps. A true foodie capital, it offers all the excitement of a great dining city—without Tokyo’s neon distractions, Kyoto’s fussiness or Osaka’s rough edges. With access to exceptional produce, particularly seafood from the Sea of Japan, and passionate culinary talent at every turn, Kanazawa rewards those in the know.

Leon Chua is a Singapore-based food lover known to his followers as @uncle_lim_chiak, where he documents his eating adventures around the world with sharp photography and tongue-in-cheek storytelling. In this installment of Pocket List—a series in which our community shares five essential recommendations from a destination of their choice—he takes us straight to the table.

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