Frederik Gustav The FRAMA Studio Store works because nothing has been overdone. The former apothecary interior already carries the space, and the design wisely steps back – a difficult discipline for which we have great respect. In its fusion with Apotek 57, the space feels more like a place to linger than a traditional retail store.

ELORA HARDY Creating Lunuganga is what provoked Geoffrey Bawa to become an architect. A former rubber and cinnamon estate, he first renovated it, then over decades of observing and adjusting, it became his lifelong learning lab. Bawa listened to and borrowed from Sri Lankan culture and history, and Lunuganga feels like it belongs to where it is. Beyond the structures, he continually evolved the composition of landscape, terrain and objects, turning it into a sequence of moments of discovery, within and without.