This year, we conducted our first-ever virtual jury meeting for FuturArc Prize, where jurors* Anton Siura, Carlos Bañón, Daniel Lim and Quang Vu Linh had a candid dialogue on the top-scoring entries as well as their views on this cycle’s theme and advice for real-life applications. *) Kotchakorn Voraakhom was unable to make it for […]
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As the spirit of sustainable design is nurtured from one generation to the next, one can seek a breath of fresh air by looking to the youth’s ideas for their daring imagination, fresh perspective and idealism. This was one benefit of making our annual FuturArc Prize (FAP) in the 2022 cycle a students-only design competition, […]
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As Malaysia’s capital city, Kuala Lumpur is gearing up to become a pilot climate-resilient and carbon neutral society by 2050. A breakdown of this goal is for carbon emissions to be reduced by 70 per cent come 2030—less than a decade away—through short-, medium- and long-term plans, including initiatives to spearhead the adoption of low-carbon […]
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Sân Chung is a noun phrase that refers to a common space shared by a residential community of a surrounding area. The premise of the team’s proposal is to bring this idea to life by leveraging post-industrial historical assets to restore and redesign them as community and cultural spaces. This will serve to address the […]
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Urbanisation has led to an increasing loss of green areas in Hanoi. This has been exacerbated by traffic congestion and air pollution. And a spike in the number of residents in the city means that the demand for civic and community spaces is increasing too. The team proposed to transform abandoned pedestrian tunnel spaces, which […]
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The neighbourhood in Thanh Da peninsula has been described as being ‘frozen in time’. It is one of the oldest residential areas in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), bordered on all sides by the Saigon River and a canal, connected to the mainland by an access road. Due to a long history of stalled projects, […]
The process of industrialisation and modernisation has inevitably brought about a greater demand in electricity, especially in cities and urban areas in Vietnam. The process of generating more electricity—specifically from the operation of coal power plants—has had its fair share of negative impacts on the environment, namely the problem of emissions, waste water and waste, […]
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Food is a cherished element in Singaporean culture. But due to limited land—with only 1 per cent available for production1—the city-state currently imports almost 90 per cent of its food. To improve food security and resiliency, Singapore has an ambitious goal to locally produce 30 per cent of its nutritional needs by 2030. The current […]
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Jakarta is “the city where nobody wants to walk”, wrote the team behind this proposal. In the bustling metropolitan, home to 10.5 million people, the arterial roads are in a state of perpetual congestion due to the high volume of private vehicles. Despite being the world’s fourth most populous nation, Indonesia ranked last in a […]
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Jakarta’s commercial blocks were conceived to strategically aid the city’s commercial development. However, over time, their resilience—by nature of their development—has been affected by factors such as the changing nature of socio-cultural influences, urban regulations and land values; as well as the inability to adapt that has led them to become inactive spaces in the […]
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According to the team’s research, residents in Hanoi contribute an average of 7,000 tonnes of waste a day, including organic and inorganic waste, as well as recyclable garbage. Averagely, 6 per cent of the 414 tonnes of inorganic waste is not recyclable and thus buried—the rest of the waste can be processed and reused as […]
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