Siren Design’s progressive and unequivocally cool workspaces are grounded by a belief in designing for community and context. It is all the more relevant in our isolating pandemic circumstances, asserts its Singapore managing director Penny Sloane.

With FARMACY, FARM uses deep research, community conversation, and engagement with subject matter experts to chart a way through the complexities of creative projects today. 

Those who have received the accolade of Luminary in this category are at the very pinnacle of their career with a portfolio of work that leads by example.

Whether the practice is large or small and whatever their chosen genre of work, each entrant in The Design Studio is a consummate achiever in the world of design.

Making a name for yourself in the world of architecture and design is a daunting prospect to many but not for the four candidates in this year’s The Prodigy category.

Daliana Suryawinata and Florian Heinzelmann of SHAU are dogged idealists when it comes to the transformative power of architecture and urban design. Projects like their series of microlibraries show how social improvements can come one architectural experiment at a time.