FUTURARC PRIZE 2019 INVITES ENTRANTS TO IMAGINE HYPER-DENSE CITIES The Asian city grows denser by the day. The FuturArc Prize 2019 asked entrants to investigate what it means to live in a hyper-dense city in Asia, one with no less than 100,000 people per square kilometre. Density can be an opportunity. The compact city can […]
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Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Only around a quarter of the total land in Hong Kong is urban or built-up, with the remaining land reserved as green areas and country parks. Coupled with a large population of over 7.3 million people, the demands on developable land far […]
HOMEGROWN NEIGHBOURHOODS The Kule family lives in a small brick house on a hillside in the suburbs of Mumbai. They are part of a majority of Mumbaikars who reside in settlements officially designated as ‘slum areas’. The Kules belong to a farmers’ caste from the Konkan, a region that stretches for hundreds of kilometres from […]
This article argues that the grey infrastructures made of steel and concrete, which we built to connect our physical world, are shallow or even fake connections that are actually the murders of the real and deep connections between human beings and nature, and among various natural processes and flows. The alternative is Green infrastructure, or […]
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FUTURARC PRIZE 2018 INVITES ENTRANTS TO IMAGINE A CITY OF BIOPHILIC DELIGHT Biophilic design, at the scale of a building or a city, integrates natural elements and nature-like qualities into the environment, thereby creating positive feelings and experiences in users, such as calmness and satisfaction. Nature heals and repairs our bodies and minds. It also […]
We are in the midst of a work revolution—a major shift in when, where and how we work. With this shift, our needs and expectations of the workplace have evolved, and the typology of the office building is evolving as a result. Although this evolution manifests differently around the world, four common trends can be seen. […]
Kuala Lumpur (KL) began as a little town and started to expand in 1875, in both physical size and population, due to the economic boom and the immigration of foreign workers, especially from China. As of 2016, 7.2 million lived in the Greater KL, or the Klang Valley, of which 1.73 million lived in the […]
As Southeast Asia begins to feel the pressures of climate change and urbanisation, water security is coming to the forefront of many national agendas. While many governments are facing issues of poor sanitation networks and clean drinking water supply compounded by land subsidence, sea level rise and increased flood risk, Singapore has spent the past […]
Running for the 10th year, FuturArc Prize has been established as a renowned platform where innovative ideas pour in from professionals and students from all over the world. With a shared passion to create a Greener environment, this is a story from FuturArc Prize 2017 winners where they share what winning the competition means to them, plus their aspirations and hopes for the future. Your […]
In celebration of FuturArc’s 10th anniversary this year, we dedicate the Main Feature of this issue to look at how FuturArc has evolved over the past decade, what our readers think about us, and what their favourite stories are. We asked FuturArc readers to vote for their favourite FuturArc Interview, Commentary and Project over the past years. […]
THE RETAIL LANDSCAPE Today, shopping malls have a few reasons to reinvent themselves to reflect a more sustainable retail market and how shoppers truly want to shop. For one, retail centres are one of the largest industries in the world and with it, one of the most costly. Considered venues for consumption, they cost upwards […]
