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a Decade of Marina Bay Sands
It’s hard to believe that Marina Bay Sands is 10 years old this year! Since opening in April 2010, the Moshe Safdie designed complex has become deeply engrained into the
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Mega-courtyard at Marina Bay
I recently went to check out Marina One, a massive new new integrated development in Singapore’s Central Business District. I have been watching the towers quickly rising within Singapore’s central
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i Light Marina Bay 2016
I went recently to check this year’s i Light Marina Bay, Singapore’s sustainable light art festival which will be held annually from this year onwards. You can see the string of installations along
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iLight Marina Bay 2014
I recently went to check out i Light Marina Bay, an interesting annual urban festival in downtown Singapore. The festival consists of light displays by artists and designers from around
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LEGO Marina Bay Sands
I sure am a lucky guy… for my 25th birthday, I received the very latest LEGO Architecture set, Singapore’s very own Marina Bay Sands! This limited edition set bears a
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Marina Bay Sands
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore & the longest cantilever in the world, 200m above the ground! The podium of the tower comes alive with a distinctive dynamic facade The ArtScience Museum
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Marina Barrage
Marina Barrage illustrates how a well crafted piece of infrastructure can become a beloved urban asset. As part of a major infrastructural strategy to sustainably collect urban rainwater runoff for
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Building the Best City on Earth
From a tiny swamp-ridden island in a mangrove tributary delta to one of the most prosperous countries in the world in just over half a century: the city-state of Singapore
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Unbuilt Singapores
Singapore is filled with cool architecture. But there are almost as many amazing building designs from over the years that were never built! Here are some of the coolest ones:
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Helix Bridge
One of the highlights of Singapore’s Marina Bay skyline is the Helix Bridge, colloquially known as the DNA bridge due to the double helix structure. The pedestrian bridge was designed
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ArtScience Museum
One of the highlights of Moshe Safdie‘s landmark Marina Bay Sands complex is the iconic ArtScience Museum. The dynamic petalled form of the building takes a place of prominence in
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Inside Apple’s first Floating Store!
After a secretive and highly anticipated construction process and an opening delayed by pandemic restrictions, I finally had a chance to get a look inside one of Apple’s coolest new
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Flora Phantasmagoria
Finbarr Fallon (the guy with the most awesome thesis project ever) has produced an incredible series of infrared photos, accentuating the urban greenery on Singapore’s buildings in a unique and
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Singapore Skyline on the Silver Screen
Singapore‘s futuristic skyline has become a popular place for major Hollywood blockbuster movies to film, with the hyper-modern cityscape often standing in for urban environments of the future. Check out
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Is this Apple’s Coolest new Store?
If the rumours are true, Apple’s third store in Singapore will be one of the world’s most unique: a glass sphere floating in the middle of Marina Bay, right at
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10 Best Hotels for Architects in Singapore
Singapore is a great place for architects to visit. Why not stay in an architecturally awesome hotel while you are here? Here are my top 10 recommendations: #10 Marina Bay
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Interview: Subterranean Singapore
What ever happened to that architecture school project from university that you spent thousands of hours on? It’s probably sitting on a hard drive somewhere. But for 2016 Bartlett graduate
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Safdie’s Sky Habitat
At the northern fringe of urban Singapore, an unconventional structure stands out among the monotonous skyline of Bishan, a neighbourhood dominated by conventional public housing blocks. The atypical twin towers
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SG50: A Year of Architecture
2015 is shaping up to be an exhilarating year for Singapore’s burgeoning architectural scene, as the city-state’s 50th anniversary of nationhood converges with the completion of many cool projects, and
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50 Cool Condos in Singapore
Can’t afford any of the 50 stunning houses that we previously featured? How about one of these cool condominiums? Beyond building boring apartment buildings, developers in Singapore have to set
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a Case for Building Middle-Heavy Cities
In the past century, a global proliferation of dense cities filled with high-rise towers has quickly become a dominate form of human habitation. Skyscrapers around the world generally follow an
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Lecture: Moshe Safdie – in Search of new Typologies
I recently saw legendary architect Moshe Safdie lecture in Singapore (at the HDB PEAK Forum) on the topic “In Search of New Typologies”. Safdie has maintained a legendary status in
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Why Work as an Architect in Asia?
In fall of 2012 I had recently graduated from architecture school at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. I packed an (extremely heavy) backpack and flew to Singapore to
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10 Breathtaking Gardens in the Sky
In an increasingly overcrowded world where much of the world’s population packed into cities, green space has become important to improving the quality of metropolitan life. But how do you