Dwell

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Built from the early 1800s to the mid-1900s, shophouses used to be abundant in Singapore. These long, narrow terrace houses often feature ornate facades, louvered windows, and internal courtyards that suit the region’s tropical weather. Owning a shophouse is akin to guarding a part of Singapore’s heritage," says Kelvin.

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Habitus Living

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

And look to workplace design for simple products to incorporate – an acoustic wall panel that doubles as a pinboard by Woven Image along any shared walls will help create a quiet zone separated from the humdrum of the house. To diffuse harsh rays, consider installing sheer curtains or blinds that complement your office decor.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

With a limited budget, a couple in Singapore with kids and two sets of parents wanted to build a forever home. But with party walls on two sides, they had to be clever about creating a connection with the outdoors. Lin and Fang solved for this by placing a courtyard at the center of the plan that divides the house into two parts.

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Deezen

MAY 15, 2023

Find out more about Jakob Rope Systems › The Kampung Admiralty, Singapore, by Forest House, Thailand, by WOHA Singapore-based WOHA designed the Kampung Admiralty for senior citizens. In 2023 biophilic architecture has bloomed on Pinterest.

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Habitus Living

JULY 18, 2023

It was to be an apartment where they could comfortably relax and entertain friends,” says Marc Webb, who runs the Singapore-based design studio with his wife Naoko Takenouchi, on this Singapore apartment that delights with an assortment of textures and colours. Thus, wall space normally reserved for a television can be given to art.

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Deezen

AUGUST 7, 2023

The vernacular building techniques of north and south India combine in Hybrid House, a house with rammed-earth walls designed by Sketch Design Studio. Hybrid House is located in Alwar, Rajasthan It provides a second home for a client who is based in Singapore but grew up locally.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 30, 2024

The Centre is housed in a 206 m tower positioned prominently within the new Singapore Sichuan Hi Tech Innovation Park to the South of Chengdu, the fourth largest city in China with a population of over 20 million. Photo © Xiao Shihao The Oppo Tower plays an important urbanistic role within the Innovation Park masterplan.

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Deezen

JULY 5, 2023

Japanese architect Toyo Ito has completed Gaia, a six-storey business school at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore that is built almost entirely from mass timber. According to Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the 43,500-square-metre development is "the largest wooden building in Asia" in terms of the volume of timber used.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 27, 2022

There is a very elemental elegance to this house designed by Designshop in Singapore, with its clear massing, structural precision and material dexterity. The formal living room is housed in a gleaming-white fair-faced concrete pavilion fronting the pool while a bricked volume contains the more private quarters.

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Dwell

MAY 8, 2024

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The dominant materials are industrial in nature: exposed concrete walls and ceilings, hardwood floors, and strong metallic elements. Have one to share? Post it here.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Free Fun Feline Apartment, Singapore Residence, Singaporian Real Estate, Architecture Photography, Building Design, Free Fun Feline Apartment in Singapore. Location: Singapore, South East Asia. We started with the idea of a wall-less house, and used floor levels to divide spaces. Singapore Architecture.

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e-architect

JANUARY 6, 2022

67EM-House, Singapore East Coast Residence, Luxury South East Asia Real Estate, Architecture Photos. 67EM-House in Singapore. Location: East Coast of Singapore, South East Asia. 67EM-House. 67EM-House in Singapore, South East Asia – Building Information. Singapore Homes.

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Dwell

APRIL 11, 2023

The refreshed, third-generation beach house embraces its place between the dunes and wetlands of Neskowin, Oregon. Along tiny Hawk Street, where several homes were built in the mid-20th century, a multigenerational community of longtime homeowners often host neighbors or socialize on the little private lane connecting their houses.

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Habitus Living

AUGUST 9, 2022

Entering Alvin Richard Chan and Danli Lok’s Housing Development Board (HDB) apartment, there is an unusual sense of spaciousness not typically encountered in three-bedroom public housing units in Singapore. On this wall the couple stores and displays everything from sentimental objects to everyday tools and crockery.

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Dwell

APRIL 14, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The home is more than just a weekend house—it is a space for individuals to connect with themselves and their spiritual journey." "One One of the standout features is the exposed brick corbel wall. "One

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e-architect

DECEMBER 30, 2021

105DW-House, Singapore Residence, Singaporian Real Estate, Architecture Photography, Building Design, 105DW-House in Singapore. Location: Singapore, South East Asia. Built on a level but long plot of land in the East Coast area of Singapore, 105DW-House presented a few challenges to the architecture team.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 5, 2024

The SIT (Singapore Improvement Trust) conservation flats in Tiong Bahru Estate have always been attractive to homeowners who desire a less common way of living. Almost all the walls had to be removed,” shares Mikael. The niche above this roof is just the right size for housing the owners’ collection of pots.

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Habitus Living

MARCH 19, 2024

From the kitchen at Casa Cassata frosted with a chequered stone island bench to the Ivory House limestone slab characterised by metallic accents, here is an inventory of homes embracing statement kitchen island benches. Yet, these designers, in all their glory, have ventured into the periphery of kitchen design concepts.

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Habitus Living

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Take for example this miniature Japanese garden that fronts a Singapore home. The house belongs to a family who loves gardening and spending time outdoors. The client shared with us their preference for the simplicity of Japanese aesthetics,” says Clement Koh of Mark 12 Architects who designed the house. “The

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Habitus Living

MAY 14, 2023

In this terrace house located in the east of Singapore, natural light, soft breezes and endless greens come together in a serendipitous dance. According to the architect, the original two-storey house built in 1957 featured a conventional layout with dark and narrow corners.

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The Spaces

DECEMBER 29, 2022

With 760,000 square feet overlooking the Thames, the building will house a spa and nine restaurants and bars. With 156 guest rooms around a glass pyramid atrium, it will be surrounded by 12 crisp white-walled ‘residences’ of two and four bedrooms, connected to the mothership by pontoons. Raffles at the OWO, London, UK.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 19, 2023

metres tall, will become the world's tallest hybrid timber housing once it is completed, towering over plans for SHoP Architects' 180-metre-tall hybrid timber tower in Sydney and Schmidt Hammer Lassen's design for a 100-metre-tall housing block in Switzerland. Fraser & Partners says C6, which will be 189.1

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Habitus Living

APRIL 23, 2023

The walls of the kitchen, one bedroom and storeroom were removed to open up this 99-square-metre (1,065-square-foot) HDB flat, creating ample opportunities to connect, whether they are watching television, lounging, reading or cooking. “We The setup is complete with the utilitarian wall shelving system and long desk.

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Habitus Living

JUNE 14, 2023

Each year, the release of the INDE.Awards shortlist marks an important evolution in regional architecture and design. The annual announcement is a catalogue of a year of achievements and a window into the ecosystem of the Indo-Pacific industry. So too, the 2023 partner cohort continues to support INDE and the regional industry.

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Dwell

JUNE 6, 2023

When architects Erik Amir and Dora Chi bought a house perched high on a ridge in L.A.’s When architects Erik Amir and Dora Chi bought a house perched high on a ridge in L.A.’s Is it or isn’t it by the master modernist? It’s complicated. But there was no question in their minds: They wanted it. The bones were there."

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Deezen

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The stool's rough texture matches the house's structural stone shell, which Michael has displayed by carving out small sections of the walls. The stool's rough texture matches the house's structural stone shell, which Michael has displayed by carving out small sections of the walls. MA House, France, by Timothee Mercier.

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Deezen

MARCH 29, 2023

According to the studio, 75 per cent of the 84-metre-tall building above the ground-floor level is made from wood, including walls, ceilings, floors and columns. metre-tall luxury apartment and retail tower in Wisconsin was certified last year as the world's tallest timber building.

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Habitus Living

JUNE 5, 2022

From a small floral boutonnière to precinct-sized landscape design, Singapore-based botanical design studio This Humid House brings a reverence and respect for its natural material of choice: plants and flowers. Founded by John Lim in 2017, This Humid House came on the heels of a series of chances.

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Dwell

AUGUST 29, 2023

Checkerboard patterning blanketing the floor and walls brings a balance to the Valencia home’s exposed brick. Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Have one to share? Post it here. The two-story residence was built in 1946.

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Dwell

MARCH 23, 2022

Compared to painted walls, the panels are durable and easy to replace," Xu says. Designed by Singapore-based Nestron, the Legend Two prefabricated home starts at $55,600 and ships worldwide. Nestron’s Legend Two tiny home is designed to be move-in ready the day it arrives.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

But these insular constructs are also part of a wider dialogue beyond their walls, one that bridges community, culture, history and the environment — the importance of the latter, in particular, has been thrown into sharp relief in the wake of the climate crisis. To inaccurately paraphrase one metaphysical poet, no house is an island.

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Habitus Living

JUNE 19, 2022

Terrace House, by Austin Maynard Architects, photography by Derek Swalwell. 2022 marks the sixth year of our region’s pre-eminent awards programme, the INDE.Awards. The challenges of the past year were no deterrent and the INDE.Awards received a huge number of entries from 15 countries for the 14 categories. 2022 INDE.Awards Shortlist.

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Deezen

JUNE 3, 2023

With these four additional floors, the building now measures eleven storeys high and houses 192 guest rooms alongside bars, restaurants and a 20-metre swimming pool that occupies the former sixth-floor gallery.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Copper – a fintech company that helps financial institutions to securely store and trade cryptocurrencies – wanted to break away from London's financial districts and instead set up its office inside Soho's Broadwick House. Being able to contain that within an architectural landmark is very special."

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Local practice Liminal Architecture and Singapore-based WOHA were awarded the project in 2013, with a design that sought to respond to the site's heritage while also creating a contemporary landmark for the city. Internally, the walls of the original garage are set against concrete, wood and steel finishes.

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Dwell

APRIL 4, 2023

Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. The creation of an almost totally enclosed courtyard garden in the center of the house was one way of dealing with this. Have one to share? Post it here.

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Architizer

MAY 24, 2022

Making this experience even more surreal and fun is the addition of a slide that can take users from the second floor which houses a space-themed exhibit to a green patio on the lower level. Given the glass walls, adults can enjoy a quick glimpse of the city beyond as they travel down the metal curve.

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