Places worth
learning from
Seven landscapes I returned to, for how they handle water, memory, movement and scale. Open any one to read the full study.
Muar, Johor · Cultural landscape
Muar Heritage
How the royal town of Bandar Maharani holds identity in its shophouses, riverfront and civic buildings, and how design keeps that memory legible.
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Shandong, China · Sacred landscape
Mount Tai, China
A sacred mountain read as cultural landscape: the pilgrimage ascent as a designed sequence of thresholds, rest and revelation.
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Singapore · Botanic garden
Singapore Botanic Gardens
How a 160-year UNESCO collection stays both a research institution and a beloved public park under one canopy.
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Sahel, Africa · Restoration
The Great Green Wall
Africa's belt of restoration across the Sahel: landscape at continental scale, holding back desertification while rebuilding soil and livelihood.
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Johor Bahru · Youth & recreation
Tunku Mahkota Ismail Youth Centre
A 10.9-hectare centre by Treesixty Design (2024): a social hub of event and arts spaces beside an active zone of gym, velodrome and BMX track, reborn from an ecological park.
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Shanghai, China · Constructed wetland
Houtan Park
Turenscape's living machine on the Huangpu: a constructed wetland that cleans river water as visitors walk it.
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Putrajaya, Malaysia · Constructed wetland
Putrajaya Wetland
One of the largest constructed freshwater wetlands in the tropics, filtering runoff before it reaches the lake and doubling as habitat and parkland.
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