© Rupert Singleton
Architects: Juliana & Tristan
Location: Brookvale Park, Singapore
Project Area: 150 sqm
Project Year: 2009
Photographs: Rupert Singleton, ImageGarden
Courtesy of DP Architects
Architects: DP Architects
Location: 36 Boon Teck Road, Singapore 329 605
Principal Architect: Jaye Tan Jia Yee
Main Contractor: Lay Construction
Site Area: 137.3 sqm
Building Area: 284.97sqm (GFA)
Photographs: Courtesy of DP Architects
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Architects: Cox Architecture + Architects 61
Location: The Helix at Raffles Avenue and Bayfront Bridge, Singapore
Project Year: 2010
Cost at completion of construction: SGD$82,900,000
Project Area: 1379.08 sqm
Project Team: Philip Cox, Michael Rayner, Hang Chung Ling, Spyros Barberis, Lynn Heng, Michael Ngu, Siti Suriah Taib, Sunita Menon.
Consultant Team: Arup – Structural consultant, Arup – Civil consultant, Arup – Mechanical consultant, Arup – Electrical consultant, Arup – Lighting consultant, Tierra Design – Landscape consultant, Davis Langdon Seah – Cost Consultant.
Construction Team: Sato Kogyo (S) Pte Ltd – Builder
Photographs: Christopher Frederick Jones, Angus Martin
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In early December, Ben van Berkel unveiled his firm’s latest design for a 31-storey residential tower in Singapore. The tower presents a new take on functional and flexible space, as the structure is conceived as a framework for a vertical city complete with landscaped gardens, sky terraces, roof gardens and recreational facilities. ”An interesting facet of the Scotts Tower is the way that it reacts to the urban context of Singapore. Instead of the more usual means of planning a city horizontally, we have created neighborhoods in the sky; a vertical city where each zone has its own distinct identity,” explained van Berkel.
More about the tower after the break.
Courtesy of WOHA Architects
Architects: WOHA Architects
Location: 77 Bencoolen Street, Singapore
Completion: 2011
Size: 40,000 sq ft
Budget: S$50,000,000
Photographs: Courtesy of WOHA Architects
© Edward Hendricks
Architects: Park+Associates Pte Ltd
Location: Alnwick Road, Singapore
Completion Year: 2011
Area: 4,628 sq ft
Photographs: Edward Hendricks
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Architects: Jenner Studio
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Michael Franke
Photo by Choo Yut Shing - http://www.flickr.com/photos/25802865@N08/
At the time of its completion in 1976, the Pearl Bank Apartment complex was the highest-density and tallest residential structure in Singapore at 38 stories. The total height of the horseshoe-shaped complex exceeded 430’ tall and was home for over 1,500 inhabitants. Designed by Tan Cheng Siong of Archurban Architects & Planners, Pearl Bank served as a beacon of contemporary residential design and acted as precedent to the subsequent high-density urban development in Singapore and throughout southeast Asia.
© Edward Hendricks
Architect/Interior: Park+Associates Pte Ltd/ 2nd Edition Pte Ltd
Location: 158, Cecil Street, Singapore
Area: 3,300 sqf
Project Year: 2010
Photographers: Edward Hendricks
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Architects: Ministry of Design (MOD)
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Contractor: Interior Composite
Photographs: CI&A Photography
© Munshi Ahmed
Gardens by the Bay will be Singapore’s largest garden project and is central to the country’s continued development of Marina Bay. Managed by the Singapore‘s National Park Board, the gardens were designed by a team of two firms: landscape architects, Grant Associates and architects, Wilkinson Eyre Architects. The gardens will feature two cooled conservatories – the Flower Dome (cool dry biome) and Cloud Forest (cool moist biome), as well as themed horticulture gardens, heritage gardens, and hundreds of thousands of plants from around the world.
More on this after the break. read more »
© Jeremy San
The Tastings Room is a new addition to the heart of Singapore’s Central Business District, Marina Square with the fine combination of French/Italian bistro cuisine and wine cellar under one roof. The restaurant’s vision was to refresh the perception of wine and food culture in Singapore by providing them at affordable prices. The overall spatial experience sandwiches the crafted black volumes between two layers of industrial aesthetics: exposed ceiling and concrete screed floor, to juxtapose/merge opposing aesthetics of being sophisticated yet affordable.
Architect: Studio SKLIM
Location: Marina Square, Singapore
Visualization: Studio SKLIM / Federico Mira
Project Area: 137 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Jeremy San
© Patrick Bingham-Hall
The intention of the house’s design is to define and blur the visual threshold between the public and private areas of the house. The transparency of the house decreases in ascending order as per their functional requirements. Their surfaces clearly express their openness of the daily living habits and rituals.
Architect: K2Ld Architects
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Photographs: Patrick Bingham-Hall
Courtesy of Wanderlust
The Wanderlust Hotel in Little India, Singapore features a collaboration of designers from Singapore studios including Asylum, phunk Studio and fFurious - together with architect firm DP Architects. Each level is dedicated to the designs of each firm. The Lobby is themed as Industrial Glam by Asylum – a juxtaposition of the surrounding’s setting and contemporary design. Level 2 is Eccentricity by phunk Studio and is designed with bright colors and neon lights on all the surfaces, including a rainbow corridor and mosaic tiled jacuzzi. Level 3 is Is it just Black and White by DP Architects which feature contrasting black and white painted spaces with origami and Pop-Art works on display. Level 4 is Creature Comforts by fFurious where friendly monsters keep guests company in their rooms.
Read on for more images of the Wanderlust Hotel after the break. read more »
Courtesy Broadway Malyan
International design team Broadway Malyan, was recently tabbed to design a new luxury housing complex in Singapore. The project, “The Boutiq”, will be built on the grounds of the historic, recently demolished, Mitre Hotel. Additional renderings and a brief narrative can be seen after the break.
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Architects: Safdie Architects - Moshe Safdie
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Project year: 2011
Photographs: SafdieArchitects, MBS Digital Media, Timothy Hursley
© Patrick Bingham Hall
Architects: Guz Architects
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Project area: 1,505 sqm
Project year: 2006-2009
Photographs: Patrick Bingham Hall
© Nota Design International pte Ltd
Nota Design International pte Ltd just shared with us this project called “House At Hillside” in Singapore. According to the architects, this house is a half a century old single storey terrace with an attic and is located in a huge residential zone with a plot ratio of 1.4. The potential of it being en-bloc in a few years’ time is there, but by no means certain.
You can read more about this project and see more photographs after the break.
© Patrick Bingham Hall
Architects: Guz Architects – Guz Wilkinson
Project architects: Caroline Witzke, Szymon Goździkowski
Location: Sentosa Island, Singapore
Project area: 852 sqm
Project year: 2010
Photographs: Patrick Bingham Hall
Urban Interventions / Vallo Sadovsky Architects
Vallo Sadovsky Architects recently sent us their latest book, Urban Interventions. We have featured one of Vallo Sadovsky Architects’ projects before, BA_LIK. That project gets to the heart of what this book is about. Small urban interventions can completely transform and…
The Architecture of Croce, Aflalo and Gasperini / Aflalo and Gasperini Architects
Aflalo & Gasperini Arquitetos recently shared with us the book they are launching titled, “The Architecture of Croce, Aflalo and Gasperini.” The book details the 50 years history of one of the most important architecture office in Brazil. The…
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill International Terminal San Francisco International Airport
Published in 2008 this book details the SOM’s design of the International Terminal at the San Francisco International Airport. The mid-rise terminal is a case study in light and lightness. It has plans, sections, elevations, models, text by Anne-Catrin…
