The National University of Singapore (NUS) initiated a competition for the design of faculty housing in July 2007. The new development was an addition to the existing Kent Vale residential development within NUS’s land parcel situated at a prominent location at the gateway to the campus. MKPL’s proposal was the competition winning scheme having met the client’s brief to create an iconic building design for Kent Vale.
Though situated within an exclusive Good Class residential area, the land is surrounded by densely built neighbourhood without much exciting views. The owner, a ‘Hakka’ descendent, envisions to have a large communal home built for his growing family, multiple guests and frequent gathering among the siblings. Inspired by the Courtyard House, a symbolic design feature for the Hakka ethnic similar to the Hakka Walled Village in China, the house is designed to be inward looking for three generations to live under one roof.
This house is part of a family compound, and expresses the owner’s close relationship with her grandfather who has his own house within the compound.
The design reflects the close bond between the grandfather and granddaughter by orientating the main spaces towards his house and gardens. The living spaces on the ground floor open up to the sprawling gardens, while the elevated private rooms of the owner and her children are sheltered by a gentle curved screen. The shared gardens are akin to a forest with the rooms like bird nests perched amongst the trees.
The project brief called for a new boutique office and the reconstruction of a pair of heritage-listed shophouses. WOHA was commissioned only after their demolition to reconstruct the shopfront (up to 7.5m depth) in accordance with Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority’s conservation and planning guidelines, and to design an entirely new, contemporary rear wing.
Singapore, October 2012 — Asylum designs Kaiseki Yoshiyuki and Horse’s Mouth, two new Japanese F&B concepts exclusively tucked away in Forum the Shopping Mall, Singapore. Creative agency Asylum takes Japanese fine dining to a new dimension, while introducing a speakeasy-style Izakaya; designing Kaiseki Yoshiyuki and Horse’s Mouth, opened by new restaurant group Iki Concepts. Housed discreetly in the basement of Forum the Shopping Mall Singapore, Kaiseki Yoshiyuki presents traditional kaiseki cuisine in an elegantly modern setting, while Horse’s Mouth serves Japanese bar food and cocktails with a playful mood. Different in personality, the two new concepts share the same interior space, measuring 418 square metres.
The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)library pavilion is located on a sloping lawn on the temporary Dover Campus. Accommodating three mature trees and forming a noise barrier toward the Ayer Raja Expressway in the north, the gridshell structure of the pavilionharnesses the site constraints and activates an outdoor space behind the existing library building.
Mauboussin at Mandarin Galleries is the first store installation in Asia/Pacific of a new global brand design conceived by regis pean+omni//form. The new look reflects on the fashion sensibility and self-confidence of today’s female shopper by inviting her into a fairy tale dream of unexpected moments and the innovative use of luxury materials, textures and color:
Singapore is well known for its multicultural spirit and universal appeal to travelers–and great shopping. Mustafa Center, a multilevel shopping center, offers an intense, 24-hour-a-day shopping experience, with its myriad of interesting shops that attract more than 15,000 customers of many nationalities every weekend. Mustafa Center offers everything from fine fabrics to electronic devices to jewels. Its restaurants, too, offer a wide selection of cuisine. Crowning it all is a Geometrica dome. Geometrica’s glass and stainless steel structure serves as the eye-catching roof for the restaurant on the top floor of the shopping center, where diners can choose from among a host of offerings while they watch the ever-evolving city come alive as the sun goes down. This structure, similar to the Museo del Niño (Children’s Museum) in Puerto Rico and the Hyatt Hotel in Cancun, Mexico, exemplifies the combined beauty of metal and glass, magnifying its surroundings in a collage of colors and shapes.
The client lives in a housing initiative that incorporates both the contemporary and the historical, combining ubiquitous high-rise living with a façade of traditional houses in one of Singapore’s protected conservation neighbourhoods. Located on the highest floor of the conserved shophouses, the studio is small but offers the possibility of expanding vertically into the attic. An elevated platform is introduced to not only access the available space, but also create a double-heighted volume that lends a more generous feel to the apartment and provide an expanse upon which the client, an art enthusiast, can showcase her collections.
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