Every site has its good and bad aspects. And every architect tries to design the building to take advantage of the good things whilst at the same time shielding it from the bad. This house is no exception. On the front the house faces west and a hard streetscape. The side and rear is built up with neighbouring houses close and densely built-up. Fortunately the south boundary of the house faces an adjoining road and a large open field and this is the ‘good’ side. And the design of this house is perhaps the clearest expression of the dichotomy between the good and bad.
Article source: NUS College of Design and Engineering
February 2023 marks the launch of NUS Cities, a global collaborative platform focused on urban sustainability to drive education, research, and advisory services in Asia primarily as well as the opening of SDE1 and 3, an inventive educational architecture developed by the College of Design and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) with an in-house core team of seasoned practitioners drawn from the Department of Architecture in collaboration with industry firms. Sited in SDE1 and 3, NUS Cities shall serve as a corporate leadership hub for learning and knowledge sharing across research and educational institutions in Singapore as well as internationally.
IMC Pan Asia Alliance Group (IMC) is a Singapore-headquartered investment holding company that is actively invested across a diverse portfolio of investments covering shipping, ports, resources, real estate, investment management and lifestyle industries across the globe.
Inspired by IMC’s belief that business is intertwined with the sustainability of its greater environment and the well-being of an individual, our design approach is aimed at tapping the senses to redefine the boundaries and expectations of a corporate office environment.
With its global headquarters in Singapore, Ocean Network Express (ONE) is the world’s seventh largest container carrier with an international network of over 130 services to some 120 countries. Designed and conceptualised as an educational, interactive and collaborative space for green initiatives, ONE’s new workplace – aptly named ONE Green Office – now houses their global Green Strategy Department and South Asia regional headquarters.
Article source: Neri&Hu Design and Research Office
The traditional Chinese courtyard house or siheyuan is a typology well-known for its illustration of Confucian ideals, accommodating extended family units wherein many generations live under one roof. To live under the same roof means to live together, and this metaphor is the nexus that ties the notion of community, especially in an intimate context, to the form crafted for this project. For this private residence commission, Neri&Hu are given a set of unique requests by the client: the new house constructed in place of the previous one should accommodate all three siblings, who as adults have outgrown their shared house; it should include a small memorial space in the form of a garden for their late mother; lastly, the new construction should retain the memory of the pitched-roof form, a defining feature of their childhood home. The previous house was built in the style of the British colonial bungalow, with hybrid elements of traditional Malay houses such as deep roof eaves for rain sheltering, as well as Victorian details. Understanding the functional importance of the roof and the client’s emotional attachment to its form, Neri&Hu embrace the symbolic nature of the pitched roof and combine it with a reinterpretation of the courtyard house.
Award-winning Singaporean architecture firm ADDP Architects today unveils its latest completed project, Park Colonial, a residential condominium consisting of six, 14- and 15-storey residential blocks created with the Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction (PPVC) method and located in the Woodleigh district of Singapore.
ADDP Architects was commissioned to serve as the full-service architecture firm from concept design, including interior design, through construction and until completion. For the project, ADDP Architects developed a design scheme and aesthetic that intends to bring tranquility and access to nature into Woodleigh, a bustling district of Singapore, resulting in an innovative residential-living experience for the modern urbanite.
Located at the heart of Singapore’s financial district on the site of a former public car park and a hawker center, the 51-storey CapitaSpring is officially completed following four years of construction for CapitaLand Development (CLD), CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust and Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. To date, over 99% of the office and retail space has been committed at the 93,000-square-meter, mixed-use high-rise which is defined by a dynamic interplay of orthogonal lines, lush greenery, and contrasting textures. In addition to the abundant sky-gardens and rooftop park, CapitaSpring includes premium Grade A office space, a Citadines serviced residence, a hawker center, restaurants and public spaces.
SPARK has a reputation for the innovative transformation of buildings such as Clarke Quay and Starhill Gallery.
GRiD is the next chapter in this narrative. A youth focused mall and education hub sits at heart of Singapore’s Selegie Arts District. Sandwiched between the adjacent School of the Arts (SOTA) and several time-worn shopping malls. GRiD is a great example of vibrant retrofitting of an existing building that extends its community relevance through positive reuse rather than wholesale demolition and re-construction.
Total GFA (sqm): 21,800sqm (Mall areas for Retrofitting workscope: 10,000sqm)
Team: Stephen Pimbley, Wenhui Lim, Carlo Joson, Jessica Leong, William Nguyen Van Thanh Ha, Andriani Wira Atmadja, Javier Campoy, Mark Mancenido, Michael Halagao, Maribelle Lapizar, Syazana Paudzi, Regina Kartika, Joei Wee, Lili Saputri, Aye Yu Mon, Arissa Rashid, Zhen Xiao Yang
Client: GAW Capital Partners, Manful Wings Pte Ltd
A curved external courtyard defines the character of this family home in Singapore. Due to the highly built-up nature of suburban districts, the courtyard was conceptualised as a means to create inward facing views, and introduce light and ventilation into the house without sacrificing privacy. The typical Singapore house has fenestration which faces outwards to the surrounding neighbours and street.
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