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Conservation and the road less travelled

Do we have to take an all-or-nothing approach when it comes to preserving our built heritage? Conservation specialist Ian Tan posits that there is a middle-ground to be found between infrastructure development and heritage protection.

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Traces Of History At Hmlet Cantonment

It was formerly a school, then an office. Today it is Hmlet Cantonment, the largest facility of Asia’s fastest-growing co-living operator that let the traces of the building’s history be its defining design feature.

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Nature. Nurture. Future: URA Unveils WOHA’s Singapore Pavilion For World Expo 2020

Designed by WOHA, Singapore’s 1,550-sqm nett-zero energy pavilion for World Expo 2020 in Dubai aims to showcase Singapore’s innovative urban solutions and its quest to remain resilient. Get in touch with the organising team to participate in its program!

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URA Initiatives Encourage Broader Understanding Of City Planning And Architecture

The URA has launched its newly revamped City Gallery, the new AUDE Space, a new architectural book and more.

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URA’s 3D-Printed Sugar Prada Aoyama Wins WATG’s Great Architectural Bake-Off 2018

3D-printed sugar glazing, fondant buddha, and gold foiled temple – here are the spice and everything nice from Archifest x WATG’s Great Architectural Bake Off 2018!

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Singapore’s New Guard: 20 Architects Under 45

An exhibition and a book honouring 20 of Singapore’s leading architects under 45 years of age have just been launched at the URA Centre.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Revamped President’s Design Award Focuses on Impact

The President’s Design Award will switch to a biennale cycle to implement important changes that reflect the critical role of design today.

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Creative Urbanisation Transforms Medellín From Violent to Creative City

Once dubbed the world’s most dangerous city, Medellín is one of Colombia’s finest today, and has been granted the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2016. Stephanie Peh reports.

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Design Students in Singapore Go Underground

In Cubes Indesign C68’s Coda ‘In the Drawer’ series where we highlight unrealised projects, we’ve featured a graduating project from Singapore Polytechnic’s Diploma in Interior Design course. Here Luo Jingmei finds out more about the other studio projects that tackle living, working and playing underground.

Conservation and the road less travelled

Traces Of History At Hmlet Cantonment

Nature. Nurture. Future: URA Unveils WOHA’s Singapore Pavilion For World Expo 2020

URA Initiatives Encourage Broader Understanding Of City Planning And Architecture

URA’s 3D-Printed Sugar Prada Aoyama Wins WATG’s Great Architectural Bake-Off 2018

Singapore’s New Guard: 20 Architects Under 45

Toward Architecture as an Urban Ecosystem

What’s the Cost of Dense and Green?

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

Revamped President’s Design Award Focuses on Impact

Creative Urbanisation Transforms Medellín From Violent to Creative City

Design Students in Singapore Go Underground

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