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The More We Get Together

Placemaking efforts in Singapore have gained momentum in the last 10 years and the covid-19 pandemic is serving to accelerate it and highlight its role in connecting various communities.

Let There Be Light

This three-storey house by ming architects features a series of staggered voids without compromising on spatial efficiency.

Defining Singapore Design

We get insights from a group of Singaporeans, creatives and business leaders.

Flowers In The Mansion

Suzhou’s traditional Chinese Manor house and its well-known gardens guided the interior concept of the New Park Hyatt Suzhou.

Chris Lee - The Hospitality Designer

Chris Lee, founder and creative director of asylum, is helping hotels engage the local community and be more than just solely the domain of tourists.

RAPID RECOVERY

THE OUTRAM COMMUNITY HOSPITAL SERVES AS THE SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL CAMPUS’ REHABILITATION FACILITY AND MAIN LOGISTICS HUB.

NEW LAYERS

SENSITIVE AND RESPECTFUL EXTENSIONS BY OFYK ARCHITECTS ALLOW OLD AND NEW STRUCTURES TO COEXIST HARMONIOUSLY IN THIS BUNGALOW THAT HOUSES A MULTI-GENERATION FAMILY.

Eye To The Sky

Taking on the challenge of a neighbouring airport runway, a new facility brings design vivacity to Penang’s industrial landscape.

Our Recent Past

As one of the most thoroughly modernist cities in the world, Singapore has a veritable treasure trove of buildings with this style. In an attempt to provide a sense of the general outline of the architectural movement here, non-profit docomomosg has compiled a list of 100 such projects comprising a mix from the heroic and everyday categories. Here, we feature 10 and detail their respective counterparts.

The Life Companion

Mel Yeo Designs Interiors imbued with thoughtfulness and authenticity to keep clients coming back over and over again.

Wisdom From The Vines

Crowned by an elegant concrete wave that acts as a rooftop amphitheatre, Lahofer Winery is a contemporary homage to the winemaking traditions of moravia.

Cut By A Different Cloth

Far from being yet another dense, hot and grey industrial estate, Singapore’s Sungei Kadut EcoDistrict promises to be a tapestry of green and blue interwoven with firms at the cutting edge of technology and heritage highlights.

Temple Of Learning

Occupying a site that was formerly part of a Toshiba factory, academic-ark is a new campus in Otemon Gakuin University in Ibaraki City, Osaka designed to foster a sense of community.

A Good Night's Rest

As the hospitality industry digitalises, it is wont to pair up with system technology partners like jung.

Versatility And Chinese Sensibility

The challenge of juggling a unique experience with maximising operational space was overcome at the chinese national restaurant through hidden panels and eye-catching design elements.

Apple Of Singapore's Eye

In conceptualising the latest retail store for the tech giant, foster + partners has added another design destination to the city.

How Did 2020 Impact The Design And Architecture Industry?

How did 2020 impact the design and architecture industry? We present a collection of perspectives and are heartened to hear optimism is in the air for next year.

Visage Of Calm

A veil of bamboo cloaks this semi-detached house by wallflower architecture + design serving as a multifunctional skin.

Fashionable Living

An apartment in Beijing’s Lively Sanlitun is conceptualised by Cheng Chung design to evoke the roman spirit of Italian high Fashion brand Fendi.

Interstitial Intervention

A series of traditional solutions applied in a contemporary way by Hyla Architects results in the verdant verandahs house concealed behind an artistic concrete brise soleil.

Mathematical Precision

It might seem random but every single feature of hourglass corral by DECA architecture is the result of careful calculation and a hypersensitivity to the site.

A Geometric Statement

Sheathed in sustainable wood that evokes the likeness of a nest, the award-winning casa a by rem’a arquitectos uses voids to create private spaces that are compellingly open.

Illumination Of Space

Natural lighting is integral to the design of this semi-detached house by liang architecture studio, making it expansive and intimate at the same time.

Modernism Around Us

Singapore’s modern built heritage is more ubiquitous than we realise, visible in all parts of the island from the city centre to the public housing estates.

THE CONVERSATIONALIST

WEIZHANG LIN IS INSPIRED BY DIALOGUE, CRITIQUE AND EXPERIMENTATION TO CREATE PERFECTLY BALANCED SPACES THAT COMMUNICATE EMOTIONS.

ARTISTIC HEIGHTS

JANDA BAIK PROVES YET AGAIN A FERTILE GROUND FOR INSPIRATIONAL DESIGN, HOSTING A RESIDENCE WHICH HAS A MELANGE OF QUALITIES THAT MAKES IT THE PERFECT HOME AND WORKPLACE FOR A MALAYSIAN ARTIST.

ALTERNATIVE FORM

THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE SITE OF THIS HOUSE LED K2LD ARCHITECTS TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS RESULTING IN UNCONVENTIONAL DESIGN HIGHLIGHTS.

Sophisticated Camouflage

Hidden in plain sight by a multifaceted screen of triangular panels, this bioenergy plant in Ravenna Reinterprets the unconventional Razzle Dazzle military camouflage technique.

Poetic Sanctuary

A historical russian orthodox church in shanghai is resurrected as a poetry bookstore with a futuristic book display system that highlights the building’s heritage details.

Bathed In Nature

Bringing the outdoors in is a wellness megatrend identified by ceramic manufacturer villeroy & boch.