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The City of Frankfurt am Main, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and DekaBank have announced the winner of the International High-Rise Award 2024/25: CapitaSpring, a mixed-use tower in Singapore designed by BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and Carlo Ratti Associati.
During its annual international conference that took place in London and Paris last week, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) named Pan Pacific Orchard, a 23-story hotel in Singapore, as the 2024 Best Tall Building Worldwide. Designed by Singapore's WOHA, it is the second...
“For Everyone a Garden” is the title of a 1974 book by architect Moshe Safdie but also a statement of belief that started with the Habitat 67 in Montreal and has found its greatest fruition in the projects Safdie's firm has designed in Singapore. Safdie Architects answered a few questions...
Safdie Architects is designing a multi-billion-dollar expansion of Marina Bay Sands, the landmark resort in Singapore that the firm led by Moshe Safdie designed a decade and a half ago.
Richard Hassell and Wong Mun Summ first met at the Singapore office of Kerry Hill Architects, where they worked as designers for five years, predominantly on resorts in Bali, Indonesia. Working well together led them to start their own independent practice in Singapore in 1994:
BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group and Carlo Ratti Associati have designed CapitaSpring, a 280-meter-tall “oasis” of green in Singapore. Ulf Meyer visited the building, sending us his impressions.
CapitaSpring is a 280-meter-tall high-rise oasis that continues the city’s pioneering vertical urbanism with a diverse neighborhood of restaurants, office space, a Citadines serviced residence and sky gardens from the ground all the way up to the 51st floor.
Number of "ultra luxury" flats, each more than 3,000 square feet (279 m2), that sold for 219 million USD at Eden in Singapore, the city-state acclaimed for its attention to biophilia,
Two new buildings in East Asia — the School of Design and Environment at the National University of Singapore and Sanken's Branch Office in Sapporo, Japan — take very different approaches to finding an answer.
The Jewel Changi Airport, designed by architect Moshe Safdie, has opened to the public in Singapore. The glass-domed space with shopping, dining, and other amenities boasts the world's largest indoor waterfall.
WOHA's Oasia Hotel Downtown in Singapore is a striking, 27-story tower we've featured numerous times in our Magazine. Here we take a look at the elevated, open-air swimming pools designed by Patricia Urquiola, who also handled the hotel's interior design.
Share of Singapore's population living in Housing and Development Board (HBD) public housing flats sold with 99-year leases, most built in the 1960s and...
Although work on the Marina One complex wrapped up last year, it was officially opened this week by Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong, and Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak.
Some recent video footage shot by Keith Loutit shows the phenomenal growth of the creepers taking over the red metal facade of WOHA's Oasia Hotel Downtown in Singapore.
Marina One, a high-density, mixed-use building complex in the heart of Singapore’s new Marina Bay financial district, complements the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s vision of making Singapore a "City in a Garden."
MycoTree is a spatial branching structure made out of load-bearing mycelium components. Its geometry was designed using 3D graphic statics, keeping the weak material in compression only. Its complex nodes were grown in digitally fabricated moulds.
A verdant tower of green in the heart of Singapore’s dense Central Business District, Oasia Hotel Downtown is a prototype of land use intensification for the urban tropics. Unlike the sealed skyscrapers that evolved out of the temperate west, this tropical “living tower” offers...
Located in Redhill, the project is a demonstration of heartland rejuvenation and community building, through masterplanning and the adaptive reuse of Bukit Merah Vocational Institute built in the 1970s. The property was re-purposed as the Enabling Village - an inclusive space that integrates...
WOHA's GARDEN CITY | MEGA CITY exhibition is on display at the Skyscraper Museum in New York City from 23 March until 4 September 2016. World-Architects editor John Hill got an opening-day tour from WOHA partners Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell and filed this report.
Next week we'll have a write-up of the WOHA exhibition, GARDEN CITY | MEGA CITY, now on display at the Skyscraper Museum in New York, but in the meantime take a look at some drone footage of their recently completed SkyVille @ Dawson in Singapore.
Inspired by the work of Parley for the Oceans and their collaborative work with Adidas, and G Star Raw and Pharrell Williams using recycled ocean waste to create innovative products, SPARK’s beach hut is fabricated from discarded plastic collected from the beaches and seas of South East Asia.
This project won the Retail Category of the INSIDE World Festival of Interiors 2015, which was held alongside the World Architecture Festival 2015.
The Interlace, a residential development in Singapore designed by OMA/Buro Ole Scheeren has been named World Building of the Year 2015 at the World Architecture Festival.
66MRN is a Zen-inspired house featuring strong architectural lines and shapes, belying a sophisticated living environment that maximizes views of nature.
WOHA's PARKROYAL on Pickering in Singapore has won the 2015 Urban Habitat Award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).
The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) has selected 5 teams to participate in the second stage of the Rail Corridor competition aimed at developing a conceptual master plan for a 24-kilometer-long former railway in Singapore.
Designed by UNStudio and DP Architects, the academic campus for the Singapore University of Technology and Design reflects an in-depth understanding of the changing requirements of learning institutions today.
The Learning Hub at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), designed by Heatherwick Studio and executed by lead architect CPG Consultants, is a new educational landmark for Singapore.