The Wall House / FARM. Merryn Road 40ª / Aamer Architects. Architects: Aamer Architects Location: Singapore Year: 2012 Photographs: Sanjay Kewlani Civil & Structural Engineer: S B Ng Pte Ltd Quantity Surveyor: BKG Consultants Contractor: TKC Builders Pte Ltd Interior Design: Terre Pte Ltd From the architect.
“Tan’s Garden Villa” Back in 2001, the Owner, Mr Adrian Tan, commissioned Aamer to design his house(s) at No 42. There a large bungalow plot was divided into two to accommodate separate but identical houses which won the prestigious Singapore Institute of Architects’ Design Award in 2004. Some ten years later Adrian acquired the plot next door, No 40, with the intention of building another home and thus having three houses; one for themselves and one for each of their two grown up sons with their future families.
48 North Canal Road / WOHA. Architects: WOHA Location: 48 N Canal Rd, Singapore Project Team: Wong Mun Summ, Richard Hassell, Ang Chow Hwee, Daniel Fung, Dennis P.
Formalejo, Christina Ong, Eric Barthole Area: 1,370 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Patrick Bingham-Hall Client: Maybank Kim Eng Properties Pte Ltd Project Manager: Hong How Projects Pte Ltd Civil & Structural Engineering: CP Lim & Partners Mechanical & Electrical Engineering: Squire Mech Pte Ltd Quantity Surveyors: Langdon & Seah Singapore Pte Ltd Landscape Consultant: Coen International Pte Ltd Main Contractor: Takenaka Corporation Site Area: 326 sqm The project brief called for a new boutique office and the reconstruction of a pair of heritage-listed shophouses.
WOHA was commissioned only after their demolition to reconstruct the shopfront (up to 7.5m depth) in accordance with Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority’s conservation and planning guidelines, and to design an entirely new, contemporary rear wing.
Bedmar & Shi. Ernesto Bedmar, an Argentinian, graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1980 from the University of Architecture & Town Planning, Cordoba, Argentina; he received the award for the Best Design in the Final Year.
He is a Registered Architect in Argentina and also a Registered Architect in Singapore, as well a Corporate Member of the Singapore Institute of Architects. Ernesto’s career began in 1977 when he did practical work in the studio at Miguel Angel Roca, Argentina. In 1980 he became an Associate at Miguel Angel Roca, South Africa and designed a town planning project for Protea New Town – South Africa and the Jabulani Administrative Centre in South Africa where he worked with Architects M.A. Roca and F. Pienaar. ERNESTO BEDMAR ARCHITECTS - Company. PARKROYAL on Pickering / WOHA. Architects: WOHA Location: Singapore, Singapore Project Team: Wong Mun Summ, Richard Hassell, Donovan Soon, Sim Choon Heok, Toh Hua Jack, Bernard Lee, Amber Dar Wagh, Mappaudang Ridwan Saleh, Evelyn Ng, John Paul Gonzalez, Josephine Isip, Goh Kai Shien, Luu Dieu Khanh, Tan Szue Hann, Alen Low, Pham Sing Yeong, Vanessa Ong, Novita Johana, Andre Kumar Alexander Area: 29,811 sqm Year: 2013 Photographs: Patrick Bingham-Hall Management Company: Pan Pacific Hotels Group Civil & Structural Engineering: TEP Consultants Pte Ltd Mechanical & Electrical Engineering: BECA Carter Hollings & Ferner (S.
E. Singapore-based WOHA Architects have long been advocates of the ultimate ‘green city’ – one that would be comprised of more vegetation than if it were left as wilderness – and the PARKROYAL on Pickering was designed as a hotel-as-garden that actually doubled the green-growing potential of its site. World Architecture Festival 2013: Submit your works! Once again we have partnered with the World Architecture Festival, the world’s largest festival (with live awards) for the global architecture community, to be held in October in Singapore.
The format of the event is unique as the professionals of the participating firms present to, and receive live feedback and commendation from, the WAF’s jury, which this year includes architects such as such as William Alsop, Sir Peter Cook, Sou Fujimoto, Dietmar Eberle, Jeanne Gang, Marcio Kogan, and Ole Scheeren, among many others. It will be a live architecture performance, where you will debate, learn and be inspired. The World Architecture Festival also includes a seminar and keynotes with renowned international architects (full list TBA). In these and other activities, you will be able to exchange ideas with over 2000 architects representing more than 65 countries, as well as broaden your horizons and your contacts.
Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay / Wilkinson Eyre Architects. Architects: Wilkinson Eyre Architects Location: Gardens by the Bay, Singapore Masterplanners & Landscape Architects: Grant Associates Client: National Parks Board (NParks), Singapore Structural Engineers: Atelier One Area: 20,000 sqm Year: 2012 Photographs: Courtesy of Wilkinson Eyre Architects Two of the largest climate-controlled conservatories in the world have been constructed as the architectural centrepiece of Singapore’s new 54-hectare Bay South Garden, the first completed part of the spectacular Gardens by the Bay project.
Designed by the acclaimed architectural practice Wilkinson Eyre Architects, the glass and steel cooled conservatories bring the climates and plant life of Mediterranean and Cloud Forest regions to tropical Singapore. Highlights of the attraction include an indoor waterfall, a perpetually flowering meadow, cascading levels of vertical planting and high level walkways through and above the tree canopy. Lucky Shophouse / CHANG Architects. Architects: CHANG Architects Location: Singapore Structural Engineer: City-Tech Associates Landscape : Greenscape Pte Ltd Year: 2012 Photographs: Invy & Eric Ng , Albert Lim K.S.
An old shophouse. A Joo Chiat Client. A Guide to 21st Century Singapore Architecture / Patrick Bingham-Hall. A Guide to 21st Century Singapore Architecture documents every significant project built since 2000, and presents a comprehensive survey of public and commercial buildings, transport and infrastructure projects, apartments and condominiums, and private houses.The text analyses the ongoing search for an appropriate and sustainable architecture for a tropical city, and examines the contribution of well-known international architects working in Singapore.
A Guide to 21st Century Singapore Architecture provides an indispensable resource for architects, visitors, students, and residents, as it catalogues the architecture of a rapidly growing city at the forefront of global change and at the centre of the greatest challenges facing the 21st century. Content 009 Essay / New Venice, New Amsterdam, New New York 028 Public and Commercial 116 Apartments and Condominiums 146 Houses 189 Under Construction (2012) 204 Index. The Pool Shophouse / FARM. Architects: FARM Location: Geylang, Singapore Design Team: Kurjanto Slamet, Tiah Nan Chyuan, Lee Hui Lian Project Year: 2012 Photographs: Jeremy San Project Area: 366.94 sqm Design Consultants: FARM in collaboration with KD Architects The Lorong 24A Shophouse Series was conceived as a collection of architectural experiments and showpiece for each architect.
FARM, in collaboration with KD architects were thrilled to be invited as one of the 7 studios involved. The conversation with the existing shophouse started with the intention to read the ‘new’ not as a ‘rear extension’ but as an ‘insertion’. We wanted to explore the spatial opportunities within such a configuration while heightening a unique experience inherent within the spatial structure of a shophouse. Skyve Bistro / FARM. Architects: FARM Location: 10 Winstedt Rd, Singapore 227977 Team: Peter Sim, Selwyn Low, Lee Hui Lian, Oh Wenxin Project Year: 2011 Photographs: Courtesy of FARM Architect Who hasn’t, in their school-going days, skip a class or two, just to sleep in late or catch a movie on a quiet afternoon?
In that spirit of playfulness and remembrances of lulling languid days, the design for Skyve Bistro was born. The bistro, thus named, also harks back to the compounds’ previous usage as a secondary school. The bistro’s interior is experienced in multiple layers, and can be separated into two main parts – the main dining area and the bar & drinks section. Singapore'2012. Gallery House / Lekker Design. Architects: Lekker Design Location: Singapore Design Team: Ong Ker-Shing, Joshua Comaroff, Germain Goh, Sio Lim, Peter Then Project Year: 2012 Project Area: 3,500 sqm Photographs: Darren Soh This is a small building, with two programs–a house and an art gallery–squeezed into a very dense envelope, in the midst of Singapore’s red light district. The design attempted to balance this programmatic double-life through a play of two volumes. The lower volume contains a triple-height gallery and kitchen. Above is a rotated tower, which appears to be partially suspended below the ceiling of the gallery; this holds the bedrooms and private spaces.
The Bamboo Curtain House / Eco-id Architects. Architects: Eco-id Architects - Sim Boon Yang Location: Singapore Completion: 2011 Area: 4,500 sqf Photographs: Sim Boon Yang A curtain of bamboo creates a beautiful natural screen that contrasts perfectly against the raw off-form concrete structure of this Modernist home in tropical Singapore. Recently completed, the house stands elevated on a hillside neighbourhood of single-storey houses on the fringe of MacRitchie Forest Reserve. The screen comprises two layers of mature hollow bamboo sections specially ordered from a Javanese bamboo forest. Each section of 150mm in diameter were cut to length, cleaned and left in its natural finish. Suspended with a wire clip to a hanging bar, the bamboo sways in the slightest breeze and gently collides much like a giant wind chime, making the house both visually and aurally responsive to the weather.
The Bamboo Curtain House is owned and designed by Sim Boon Yang of the award-winning eco.id Architects based in Singapore. 22 Oei Tiong Ham Park / AR43 Architects. Architects: AR43 Architects Location: 22 OeiTiong Ham Park, Singapore Design Team: Lim Cheng Kooi Builder: Bestec Construction: Pte Ltd Site Area: 1,203 sqm Photographer: Albert Lim KS The design for the house commenced in the year 2009 and was completed in May 2011. Sited within a leafy up-market housing estate, it sits on a 1200 m2 linear plot of land that was originally part of a larger estate before sub-division. The house is hence hidden away from the main road and approached via a short access road that is shared by the immediate neighbor. Designed for a family of 5 with occasional visits from the grandparents, the client gave the architect much freedom for the design except for two requests: to provide for a full lap pool and to build adequately within a budget, rather than maxing out the build-able area.
The block terminating the main circulation spine is a volumetric living room space with the master bedroom’s study over looking from above. Cluny House / Neri & Hu Design and Reserch Office. Architects: Neri & Hu Design and Reserch Office Location: Singapore Size: 2,888 sqmCompletion: November 2011 Photographer: Pedro Pegenaute For a private residence in Singapore, Shanghai-based architecture firm Neri & Hu Design and Research Office pays homage to the client’s Chinese roots by taking cues from the Siheyuan courtyard house, a vernacular typology found in the northern regions of China. In essence, the courtyard house can be thought of as a spatialization of Chinese notions of domesticity. It expresses the relationship between periphery and core, celebrating the inner zone as a space for the family to gather.
It speaks to the complex relationships between the “self” and the “communal,” layering public and private in a spatial procession. It is an embodiment of hierarchical order inherent in multi-generational living, unique to the traditional Chinese family structure. 21 Jervois Hill / AR43 Architects. School of the Arts / WOHA. SkyVille @ Dawson / WOHA.
Commissioned by the Housing and Development Board as an exploration of the future of affordable public housing, WOHA‘s public housing design for Skyville @ Dawson consists of 960 homes in Singapore. Architecture City Guide: Singapore. Thanks to our readers’ help like, Jonathan Choe, we bring you an Architecture City Guide to Singapore. The city’s “recent prosperity and extremely dense urban situation has lead to a wealth of incredible architecture from architects around the world,” says Choe. Today we bring you only 12 buildings as a starting point. Please leave some of your favorites in the comment section below as we intend to expand it in the near future. To check out other cities visit our world map or our Architecture City Guide page.
The Park House / Formwerkz Architects. Reflections / Daniel Libeskind. Brookvale Park / Tristan & Juliana. 36 BTrd / DP Architects. אירית אקסלרוד אדריכלים. Architects Pte Ltd. SCDA Architects. Mayslits Kassif Architects. Space Asia Hub / WOHA. AD Classics: Pearl Bank Apartments / Tan Cheng Siong. 158 Cecil Street / Park+Associates. Periscope / VW+BS. Cluny House / Guz Architects. Artscience Museum In Singapore / Safdie Architects. ONG&ONG Corporate.
On the waterfront of Singapore. Tangga House / Guz Architects. Alleyway House / Formwerkz Architects. Telok Blangah Hill Park. Wall House / Formwerkz Architects. Maximum Garden House / Formwerkz Architects. Punggol Waterfront Master Plan & Housing Design Program. Bras Basah Rapid Transit Station / WOHA. The Interlace / OMA. 55 Blair Road / Ong & Ong. Wallflower Architecture + Design.