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Honeycomb-patterned towers by Büro Ole Scheeren frame gardens in Singapore

March 6, 2018 India Block 0

A pair of skyscrapers with concave, honeycomb-patterned facades bracket planted plazas at Büro Ole Scheeren’s Duo development in Singapore, Malaysia. The architecture firm headed up by German architect Ole Scheeren designed the pair of glass skyscrapers to frame interlocking public spaces in the city-state’s Kampong Glam neighbourhood. At 186 metres, the tallest of the towers is entirely residential, comprising 660 apartments

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BIG and Carlo Ratti design Singapore tower with trees bursting through facade

February 12, 2018 India Block 0

Bjarke Ingels Group and Carlo Ratti Associati have started building a 280-metre-high skyscraper in Singapore, which will feature a four-storey vertical park complete with treetop cocoons. The tower, at 88 Market Street in the city-state’s financial district, will contain 29 floors of office space and 299 apartments, along with gardens spread through the building. BIG and CRA’s design shows the

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Terraced gardens echoing paddy fields fill centre of Singapore’s Marina One

November 10, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

Snaking wooden walkways traverse a terraced garden planted with 700 trees at the heart of this tower development in Singapore’s Marina Bay by Ingenhoven Architects and landscape firm Gustafson Porter + Bowman. The Marina One development was designed by German studio Ingenhoven Architects and local firm A61 as a plant-covered “mountain”, comprising four high-rise blocks

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Dover Street Market set to open in Singapore

July 28, 2017 Alice Morby 0

Japanese fashion brand Comme des Garçons is opening the fourth branch of its Dover Street Market store in an old Singaporean army barrack. Dover Street Market Singapore is located in a building that forms part of the COMO Dempsey complex – a “lifestyle destination” filled with design-focussed shops and restaurants. The new store officially opens tomorrow,

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Ministry of Design creates robot training facility lined with metal and tube lights

May 10, 2017 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

Architects Ministry of Design created this faceted robotics lab in Singapore to train and inspire engineers working with new automation technologies. Aluminium rods and tube lights stick out from the walls and ceiling at divergent angles inside the lab, which is used by robotics education group RACE and located within an industrial park in the

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Three Large Crocheted Urchins Decorated Singapore During The iLight Marina Bay Festival

May 8, 2017 Erin 0

Photography © Choi+Shine Architects   Choi+Shine Architects have designed The Urchins, as part of an art installation for the recently held 2017 iLight Marina Bay Festival in Singapore. The Urchins were created in response to the festivals theme of biomimicry and sustainability.   The three large Urchins were designed to interact with natural light during […]