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Hailing Hybrids
SingaPlural 2019 places under the microscope the importance of multidisciplinary collaborations.
What Lies Beneath
It doesn’t look like much but this project has the potential to become a game-changer: Replacing construction steel with a bamboo fibre composite material as reinforcement in concrete. The Alternative Construction Materials team at the Future Cities Laboratory of the Singapore-ETH Centre is proposing this.
How To Be Different
Aesop has opened its first store in Penang, Malaysia. Its Retail Architectural Manager Denise Neri shares about its design inspiration and how the Australian brand conceptualises each one to be unique.
Home And Office
Two designers share their best practices when it comes to shaping the interiors of these two different spaces.
Beauty In Subtlety
Situated inside a golf club in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Hanashobu exudes an elegant serenity and calmness with its heavy use of light-coloured wood and flower-themed detailing.
Green Fluidity
The newly-revealed Golf Clubhouse at Tanah Merah Country Club breathes modernity into its surroundings.
This Sedan Packs More Than A Few Design Stories Under Its Hood
This sedan packs more than a few design stories under its hood.
Architecture For The Silver Generation
Many Asian countries are now grappling with the “silver tsunami” coming their way. What role does design have in this?
Play At Work
Shanghai has an exuberant new co-work venue: a collaboration between Linehouse and the WeWork in house design team, WeWork Weihai Lu melds history with modernity, opulence with tactility, and fiction with function.
Colonial Simplicity
This 2,400-square-foot café, filled with clean lines, natural textures and a pop of colours, takes full advantage of its historic building structure.
Luxurious Minimalism
Impeccably designed with all round wellness in mind, here is a retreat that pampers not only the body but also the senses with its contemporary luxe interior.
Cut Into Pitches
A minor setback turns into a major gain for this landed home in sunny Singapore.
In the Shadows
Ennobling the natural geographic landscape and a simple inexpensive material, Architect Jean Verville creates an expressive form in the midst of a hemlock forest.
Brick Boxing
A brick building gives a Vietnamese artist a dedicated place for creating clay sculptures and potteries.
Designed For Learning
Architecture should not be side-lined when it comes to educational institutions. It can even help improve student performance.
Same Same But Different
A design museum in Zurich has received a new lease of life
Designer Shower
AXOR One has a new companion which will leave you feeling revitalised
Recognising The Best
An interior design awards gala showcased the best from Singapore and the region
They Came, They Played
Fun is the precursor to a good idea. SingaPlural 2018 set out to explore the truth behind this concept.
Intelligent Integration
CannonDesign + NEUF architect(e)s lifts the veil on Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), the largest healthcare construction project in North America.
A Renewed Philosophy
A private residence in India unites traditional and modernity with its use of concrete, natural materials and the fundamentals of Vaastu Shastra.
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Uncovered Surprises
From an old sugar mill to a masterful nature centric resort, Alila Yangshuo celebrates the tactility of its rustic materials and the wonders of Guilin’s cultural experience.
Live, Work and Play
Funan – Capitaland has taken a bold step in creating a lifestyle destination and landmark project to cater for the tech savvy and socially astute public in the heart of Singapore’s CBD.
The Honest Home
The Pallet House is a uniformed space that combines the beauty of up-cycling, carpenter’s artistry and creative ideas.
Hospitality At Home
THIS SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE IS DESIGNED TO WELCOME AND HOST FRIENDS AND FAMILY.
Waste Not, Want Not
A design studio from Canada is hoping to change the way we look at unused spaces along a lane or alley.
Putting The Architect In Arch Tech
The digital revolution is changing the world as we know it. How can Architecture keep up with the shift?
Tomorrowland
Influenced by the Industrial Revolution and Information Age, this mixed-use space in Shanghai brings an IT-shaped future world into the present.
A Life Inspired
A passion for living is what motivates Chinese designer Lea Chen in everything she does.