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Category: Architecture, Residential, Selected Tags: Fluid form, Glass, Hexagon, Singapore, UNStudio
Ben van Berkel / UNStudio have designed the new UIC building, ‘V on Shenton’, in the heart of Singapore’s Central Business District. The former UIC Building dominated the city skyline as Singapore’s tallest building for many years since its completion in 1973 and was part of an important collection of towers located along Shenton Way [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Balcony, Iconic architecture, Singapore, Skyscrapers, Swimming pool, Tropical architecture, UNStudio
Ben van Berkel / UNStudio’s design for The Scotts Tower unveiled today in Singapore UNStudio’s design for The Scotts Tower in Singapore will be the first development to be unveiled today under the Far East Organisation’s new SOHO brand. Designed to conserve space whilst maximizing live/work/play areas, The Scotts Tower presents a new dimension of [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education, Selected Tags: Architecture Award, Competition, DP Architects, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, School, Singapore, UNStudio
The world-renowned architect UNStudio / Ben van Berkel’s design has been selected from a shortlist of five practices to design Plot A of the SUTD (Singapore University of Technology and Design) campus. The main aim of the design for the Singapore University of Technology and Design was to create a campus that celebrates both teaching [...]
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Category: Design, Lighting Tags: Modern light, Munkii, Singapore, Table lamp
Lamp 45 is the newest design by Jaren Goh for Singaporean furniture retailer Munkii. The Lamp 45 is modern, simplistic and engineered for the contemporary desk. The Lamp 45 is designed to be an unpretentious and uncluttered lighting piece. That is why it is stripped to its basic geometrical silhouette and for ease of use, [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected Tags: Singapore, Stair, Swimming pool, Tropical architecture, Wallflower
Singaporean architectural practice Wallflower Architecture + Design recently has completed the Sun Cap House located in Sentosa Cove, Singapore. Although the site was devoid of any development during the inception of the project, it was foreseen that the future built environment would be dense with neighbouring residences barely metres away on either side. The tropical [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Architecture Award, Reflective pool, Singapore, Tropical architecture, Wallflower
Wallflower Architecture + Design has won the 10th Singapore Institute of Architects Design Award (Individual House Category) for a project titled ‘Water-Cooled House‘. The project is hidden away from the road, the site is surrounded by a verdant screen of mature trees from adjacent properties. Breezes blowing transversely across the site being another notable aspect [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Residential, Selected Tags: Glass, NBBJ, Peter Pran, Singapore, Skyscrapers, Tim Griffith, Tropical architecture, Waterfront architecture
The Sail @ Marina Bay by NBBJ is the mixed-use building comprising apartment units, several restaurants, health clubs, recreation decks with pools and tennis courts, and parking. As the 10th largest residential high-rise in the world, and the largest high-rise in Singapore, the Sail @ Marina Bay has become Singapore’s newest city icon. It carves [...]
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Category: Architecture, House, Selected Tags: Formwerkz Architects, Reflective pool, Singapore, Swimming pool, Tropical architecture
Singapore-based Formwerkz Architects recently has completed the S House along Lorong Selangat, Singapore. The house is consisted of 4 levels with each unique formal characteristics in responding to different programmatic demands. We derived formal strategies that celebrate these vertically stratified spaces, making the transition from one level to the next an experience. Formwerkz Architects + [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: MDF, Modern bookcase, Munkii, Singapore
Singaporean furniture retailer Munkii recently has launched the designer bookshelf – Vintage which is designed by Jaren Goh. The Vintage is made of medium density fibreboard, dressed in lurid, piano white finish with matte liver red interiors. + Product information courtesy of Munkii The concept of Vintage was first released in 2007 and had received [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Concrete, Formwerkz Architects, Lattice screen, Singapore, Tropical architecture
The ‘Alley-way’ House, is an intermediate terrace house designed by Singapore-based Formwerkz Architects for a family of four and their pets in Singapore. The transparency of the alleyway spaces is only fleetingly noticeable from the street when the dwelling is viewed head-on, blurring the boundary between the street and the “alleyway’. Formwerkz Architects + Architect’s [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: Concrete, Formwerkz Architects, Singapore, Swimming pool, Timber, Tropical architecture
Singaporean practice Formwerkz Architects has completed a modern tropical house in Singapore. Hierarchies of spaces (and family cells) were carefully expressed in choice materials and architectural languages… Communal spaces were designed as light and open, inviting structures. Formwerkz Architects + Architect’s Statement courtesy of Formwerkz Architects How will you engage the very traditional Asian Concept [...]
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Category: Architecture, House Tags: K2Ld Architects, Singapore, Swimming pool, Tropical architecture
K2Ld Architects has designed a private house – Khai House located in Singapore. The transparency and boundlessness are the key features of the house design. The approach to spatial definition is most vigorously pursued at ground level, where there are spaces but with no trace of rooms bounded by walls. K2Ld Architects + Project description [...]
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