Dear FuturArc Readers, There was a quote that I came across while doing this edition that moved me. “We don’t move through time, time moves through us.” Sarah Lynn Rees, who spoke at the Living Cities Forum organised in Australia, shared this anecdotal quote told to her by an elder in her community—she is a […]
The Minglanilla Techno Business Park (Ming-mori) is a project under the Ming-mori Development Corporation, a subsidiary of Cebu Landmasters Inc (CLI). The park is envisioned as a platform for innovation, programmed for diversity and a model for sustainability. Due to the lack of developable land for growth, be it below the mountain ridge of Cebu […]
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Industrial buildings are generally taken for granted to be unattractive and furthermore destructive, often forgoing environmental stewardship in the name of minimising costs. These assumptions are upended in the design of Paramit: Factory in the Forest project, which was conceived for the electronics manufacturing company’s facility in Penang. True to its name, the building on […]
Read More… from Book launch of Paramit: Factory in the Forest on industrial biophilic design
Anupama Kundoo is an India-born, Berlin-based architect, educator and researcher. Her research-oriented practice has generated people-centric architecture based on spatial and material research for low environmental impact, while being socio-economically beneficial. She spoke to Bhawna Jaimini on challenges of climate change, South Asian urbanism and her slow architecture practice. […]
When one grows up living in a city-state such as Singapore, one would not have much of an idea of difference between living in a city and outside of it, such as in the suburbs (there’s not much ‘suburbia’ in a small city-state). Thus, living in a city from young does veil one from the […]
Read More… from How Can We Design Cities to Be More Equitable?
FuturArc conducted an interview with Gan Yi Reng and Daniel Lim of Think City about placemaking to create more equitable cities. Here are some of their projects. GYR: When we first started in Johor Bahru, we did a baseline study and tried to understand the population and land use of the city. And from there, […]
Imagine walking along a city street under the cooling shade of large trees, with the sounds of birds chirping and the wind rustling the leaves; the fresh smell of the sun burning off the previous rain on the greenery; the wide footway, buildings and roadside fringed in green—you pause and contemplate sitting for a while […]
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In 2016, the legally binding international treaty on climate change—the Paris Agreement—entered into force. Its urgent goal is to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels. To achieve this by the year 2050, countries and cities have made commitments to reach net zero carbon—which means not adding new emissions and absorbing […]
Read More… from Porte de Montreuil: Retrofitting the first zero-carbon neighbourhood in Paris
Dotted with reservoirs to secure water for agriculture, Matsubara City has a characteristic landscape that is also speckled with tombs built in ancient times in its residential areas. Although the tombs are huge man-made structures, they came to resemble natural landforms and have become a part of the physical landscape over the long passage of […]
At 13.5 kilometres long, the bold Banzhang Mountain Connector in Zhuhai will link the mountain within the city to the sea. Located right in the middle of the city, Banzhang Mountain has been viewed as a hindrance as it prevents the development of roads, thus limiting people’s access around the city. The design team, however, […]
Read More… from Zhuhai Xiangzhou Green Connector: Jing Shan Trail
This schematic design for a large mixed-use development at the centre of Hangzhou’s historic Shi Ban Qiao district won the design competition that was a part of the Hangzhou Future City project. Conceived as a large-scale urban regeneration development, it seeks to transform an area in the old city centre that is in need of an update into a vibrant community that adds to and integrates itself into the new cultural and green belt that runs across the city. […]
A good public space project, especially in a city, is one that is multilayered: weaving one layer of strategy with another to form an intricate network of intertwining, interdependent systems so that together, the project not only resolves the current problems it was supposed to address, but also stitches new programmes that add colours and […]
