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Watching ‘Mario Botta: The Space Beyond’ With Mario Botta

Watching ‘Mario Botta: The Space Beyond’ With Mario Botta

Prof. Mario Botta, 76-year-young and now in his sixtieth year as an architect spent a week in Singapore for the Swiss Week 2019 screening his documentary, visiting schools and participating in various talks.

Toward Architecture as an Urban Ecosystem

Toward Architecture as an Urban Ecosystem

In the last of our three articles recapping the ‘Dense and Green Building Typologies’ symposium, we hear from architects and landscape architects on achieving systematised urban ecology.

What’s the Cost of Dense and Green?

What’s the Cost of Dense and Green?

The second of our three articles recapping the recent ‘Dense and Green Building Typologies’ symposium looks at the demand for green environments from real estate investors, tenants, and homebuyers.

Dense, Green and Blue. Is Singapore Ready to be a ‘City in Nature’?

Dense, Green and Blue. Is Singapore Ready to be a ‘City in Nature’?

In the first of three articles, we recap the recent symposium ‘Dense and Green Building Typologies: Architecture as an Urban Ecosystem’. Part 1 looks at government perspectives.

For a Greater Good

For a Greater Good

Sustainability, comfort and better user experiences emerged as common threads among the 36 designs that were awarded with Singapore Good Design Mark (SG Mark) this year.

15 Singapore Projects Shortlisted For WAF 2016 Awards

15 Singapore Projects Shortlisted For WAF 2016 Awards

A skyscraper defined by a massive vertical garden, mass housing of futuristic forms, and repurposed heritage monuments – here are some of the Singapore-based projects that made it to the prestigious World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards shortlist this year.

Design: For The Short Term

Design: For The Short Term

Mark Dytham and Sawako Kaijima tackle the notion of value, changeability and resourcefulness in the context of today’s throwaway society. Olha Romaniuk writes.

CUBES INDESIGN: ISSUE 75 OUT NOW

CUBES INDESIGN: ISSUE 75 OUT NOW

ipli Architects continue their introspective approach to residential architecture; Safdie Architects and DCA Architects reinvent high-density living at Sky Habitat; UNStudio and DP Architects support SUTD’s cross-disciplinary pedagogy with spaces of constant connection; A discussion about the tides of practice in Singapore; All the happenings from Singapore Indesign Intimate 2015, and more to be found in this issue.

New at the International Design Centre

New at the International Design Centre

The International Design Centre gets a new space that’s been specially retrofitted for design research and knowledge sharing.