29 FEBRUARY 2024 – Singapore has a goal of enabling every household to live within a 10-minute walk of a park by 2030. In line with expanding and enhancing connectivity across the island, the National Parks Board (NParks) has completed the 18-kilometre Eastern Corridor between Pasir Ris Park and East Coast Park, through Bedok Reservoir […]
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FRIDAY, 8 DECEMBER 2023 – On Friday 1 December 2023, the World Architecture Festival (WAF) concluded the annual festival with a gala dinner and awards ceremony at the Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. For three days, starting from 29 November, the international architecture community gathered to view presentations on shortlisted projects in front of a live […]
WEDNESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2023 – Eleven conferences and six exhibitions spanning various aspects of the built environment industry comprised last week’s Architecture & Building Services (ABS) 2023, held from 15–17 November at the Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre. With the theme of Designing a Safe and Resilient Built Environment, the mega-expo addressed various […]
MONDAY, 20 NOVEMBER 2023 – With a little over seven years left before the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are targeted to be achieved in 2030, leaders of international organisations sought to establish a collectively owned platform to advance these goals. The first-ever Circular Cities Summit (CCS) 1.0 was held last week on 14–15 November at […]
25 AUGUST 2024 – On Tuesday, 22 August 2023, the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) announced recipients of the SIA Architectural Design Awards (ADA) 2023, in recognition of building excellence, innovation and contribution to broadening conversations about architecture within and beyond the discipline. “Through the awards, we continue to raise the bar for architectural standards […]
SINGAPORE, 13 JULY 2023 – Yesterday evening on 12 July 2023 at the Istana, eight recipients were presented the President*s Design Award (P*DA) 2023 by President Halimah Yacob in recognition of design excellence that have positively impacted communities in the nation and beyond. The Designer of the Year category was presented to two recipients: Leonard […]
31 JANUARY 2023 – As part of a larger campus redevelopment to meet net zero carbon targets, National University of Singapore (NUS)’s renovated School of Design and Environment (SDE) 1 and 3 will be opened this February. Alongside SDE4 as Singapore’s first new-build net-zero energy building that was opened in 2019, the new SDE1 and […]
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11 AUGUST 2022 – On 1 August, 2022, the Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) World City Prize Lecture and Forum saw the presentations made by representatives of the LKY World City Prize 2020 Laureate, the City of Vienna, and the Special Mention cities of Antwerp, Boston and Lisbon, respectively. Four cities, 1 common tale? A “tale […]
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3 AUGUST 2022 – The riverside precinct of Clarke Quay in Singapore was historically a conduit for trade. Since the 1800s, warehouses along the waterfront saw a bustle of activity with commodities unloaded and re-loaded onto traditional tongkang and twakow ships. But after shipment activities were redirected to Keppel Harbour in the 1980s, the area […]
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18 JULY 2022 – [MEDIA PARTNER] Be inspired, connected, and empowered at the International Built Environment Week (IBEW) 2022 as a much-anticipated event for the built environment (BE) sector in the Asia Pacific region. The 4th edition of IBEW will return as an in-person event from 5–9 Sep 2022 at the Sands Expo & Convention […]
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24 JUNE 2022 – On Friday evening at the Fairmont Singapore, the annual BCI Asia Awards (BCIAA) was held to acknowledge the nation’s Top 10 developers and architecture firms, as well as recognise sustainable design ideas from the next generation of talents. The keynote speech was delivered by Mr Melvin Tan, SIA President, Deputy Managing […]
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April 2022 – Considering its low-lying geography, Singapore is particularly vulnerable to climate change. The Centre for Climate Research Singapore has projected that the island city-state could experience an increase in daily mean temperature of 1.4–4.6 degrees Celsius towards the end of this century and a mean sea level rise of up to 1 metre […]
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