The architects were tasked to design a school building with a capacity to accommodate students from pre-school to high school. Considering the large curriculum and the challenge of setting an active and comfortable learning environment in a limited area, there is a need to provide a space where the users-especially students-can ether, interact and engage […]
Winners of the Green Building Award (GBA) 2016 were announced at the award presentation ceremony at JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong on Tuesday, 22 November 2016. Co-organised by the Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC) and the Professional Green Building Council (PGBC), this biennale award recognises the concerted effort and commitment of the industry in […]
Hoang Thuc Hao (1+1>2 International Architecture J.S.C.) was selected as the first Vietnamese architect for the Singapore Institute of Architects and Getz Bros. & Co. (Singapore) (SIA-Getz) Architecture Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia 2016. Hoang, the sixth recipient of the prize, was presented with a medallion by Grace Fu, minister for Culture, Community and […]
BuildTech Asia 2016, a regional trade show for the building and construction industry, recorded a 35-percent increase in visitor attendance over the three-day event. Organised by Sphere Exhibits and hosted by the building and Construction Authority (BCA), the annual exhibition was held from 18 to 20 October 2016, in conjunction with the Singapore Construction Productivity […]
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Held on 8 November 2016, the inaugural Cities:Possibilities forum was co-organised by AkzoNobel—a global paints and coatings company and a major producer of specialty chemicals—and Green media company Eco- Business, where 250 senior government and business leaders convened to discuss solutions for sustainable cities. The panel of speakers, which included guest-of-honour Choi Shing Kwok (Singapore’s […]
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The National University of Singapore (NUS) broke ground on a new sustainable building at the Kent Ridge campus on 7 November 2016—its first purpose-built net-zero energy building (NZEB@SDE). Desmond Lee, senior minister of State for Home Affairs and National Development, officiated at the groundbreaking ceremony. Conceptualised by the NUS School of Design and Environment (SDE), […]
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Asian Construction Week comprised a series of exhibitions, conferences, seminars, networking events and site visits related to the building and construction industry. The three-day event also featured innovative products and provided a venue where business negotiations for both private and public sectors were held. Pornphan Bulner, director of IMPACT Exhibition Management Co., Ltd. and organiser […]
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The Alchemy of (Sustainable) Design by Dr Nirmal Kishnani Dr Nirmal Kishnani examines the challenge of teaching sustainability in the classroom, summarising the pedagogy of the urban studio of the Master of Science, Integrated Sustainable Design programme at the School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore. This is described as a set of aspirations […]
HS: Can you walk us through Green? MG: I have a simple definition of Green architecture: designing with nature. You go to the site and analyse the environment. What is the climate? What are the resources? What is the slope? Then you design accordingly. You avoid sunlight coming into the building from the west and east. You […]
Neeson Cripps Academy is a school for secondary education in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Founded by Scott Neeson’s Cambodian Children’s Fund (CCF) and funded by Velcro Companies, the school will provide a high-quality learning programme to the city’s underprivileged children: a robust English language curriculum; STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) subjects; access to the […]
Designed to be Malaysia’s first school to achieve the Green Building Index (GBI) Platinum rating, the new campus of the International School of Kuala Lumpur (ISKL) is currently being constructed on a 26-acre site in Ampang Hilir and expected to open in August 2018. The master plan and architectural design of ISKL complement the school’s […]
Contextually responding to its harsh local microclimate, the project was conceived to fortify itself from the external environment and create a relevant oasis-like internal environment. This resulted in the inward-looking morphology, with a high thermal mass on the outer faces that blocks out the hot winds predominant in the region. This building provides student accommodation […]
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