Ng Teng Fong General Hospital and Jurong Community Hospital comprise a regional hospital, a community hospital as well as specialist outpatient clinics. The two hospitals operate symbiotically, with the regional hospital providing advanced medical and general support services to the community hospital and the latter receiving the former’s stabilised, recovering patients for stepdown care. WELLNESS: […]
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Situated in the middle of Vietnam between Da Nang and Hoi An cities, this project is located in an area with many tourist attractions, such as the ancient town in Hoi An and beaches. The brief was to create a resort that would correspond with Vietnam’s handicrafts, traditions and climate. The resort has an overall […]
The brief was to create a large warehousing facility that would be equipped with a high degree of automation. With the exception of the office block, the building would have minimal human occupancy. However, the architects wanted an environmental and energy strategy to maintain habitable temperatures throughout the year. New Delhi has an extreme climate […]
Designed for Frasers Property and Sekisui House, stage one of The Brewery Yard project—formerly Irving Street Brewery—integrates the plant equipment for a precinct-wide tri-generation plant into the historic Carlton and United Brewery building on the fringe of the central business district in Central Park, Sydney, Australia. The plant will supply power and hot and cold […]
Terminal 3 (T3) of Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport, Guangdong, China, has been in operation since 2013 and plays a key role in boosting the economic development of Shenzhen—one of the fastest-growing cities in the world. The terminal—the largest single public building to be built in Shenzhen at the time of its completion—encompasses 63 contact gates, […]
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True to its name, the township of Tienchung (or Tianjhong)—which means “in the middle of rice fields”—is situated amidst Changhua County’s rice-growing farmlands. It was lauded as one of eight scenic views in Changhua, and is surrounded by golden rice fields during the harvest seasons. In recent years, competition among flower growers has turned it […]
The Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Terminal 1 was built in 1979 and its design was influenced by Eero Saarinen’s Washington Dulles International Airport. Featuring a prestressed structure that was considered advanced at that time, the old Terminal 1 was serving an estimated number of 5 million passengers annually. While still in good architectural condition, the […]
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In March 2011, the Great East Japan earthquake spawned a series of massive tsunamis that claimed thousands of lives and damaged many coastal areas of the country. Onagawa station, a terminal along the Ishinomaki Line, was among those affected. The station and nearby railway tracks were destroyed. Four years later, the reconstruction of the new […]
DRAWING PARALLELS The two brands—Kki Sweets and The Little Dröm Store—share a storefront at the School of the Arts (SOTA) building in Singapore. Although the design brief was simple—they need to retain their distinctive identities while not looking like two completely separate entities—the main challenge was to create something that would meet the standard of […]
Although once Malaysia’s richest city, Ipoh glory days have long since passed. With the end of the tin mining industry boom, families and businesses had moved out of Old Town, leaving only traditional trades run mainly by senior citizens. Without the UNESCO World Heritage status enjoyed by Malacca and Penang, a sure tourist draw, Ipoh […]
LOCAL INSPIRATION The client wanted to create a cutting-edge design studio where the designers would style their latest vehicles, and which needs to have an emotive quality that could energise and inspire thoughts; while modern, it should also maintain a sense of its origins. Nestled amongst similar contiguous sheds with lush greenery amidst a concrete […]
The western suburb of Kunshan, a booming industrial city next to Shanghai, is bounded by Lake Yangcheng. The city established a park to avoid the entire lakeshore from being encroached upon by a high-end home development. With an area of 42.5 hectares, Lake Yangcheng Park is the largest Green public space on the shore and […]
