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Matthew Burke: Best Design Outcomes Begin With Diverse Teams
Top image: Matthew Burke. Photo: Justin Loh CapitaLand, Singapore. Photo: Owen Raggett As Regional Leader for Asia in Geyer, tell us your role. My role is to enhance and expand our presence in Asia in...
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Jean Paul de la Haye on how Wilkhahn Successfully Designs and Delivers...
Wilkhahn has been involved in many significant projects in Asia including Hong Kong International Airport (with over 16,000 seats), CIMB in Kuala Lumpur, and Rolls-Royce in Singapore, just to name a...
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Light Collab: Making A Difference In Architecture Through Lighting
Top image: Toh Yah Li (second from left) and her team at Light Collab When admiring or studying a building, Toh Yah Li is often looking for the intangible. The way light filters, how it was applied to...
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Terence Seah of Benoy: Planning for the Future
“This may sound strange and perhaps uninspiring, but I always ask my team ‘So what?’,” says Terence Seah, when asked about how he challenges his team to design innovatively. “It was a question that I...
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Chrisandra Heng Talks Design Leadership
With a desire to pursue a creative field, Chrisandra Heng chose to study Interior Architecture and Design at Temasek Polytechnic. Upon graduation, she joined an international firm that focused on...
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United Design Practice – Singaporeans Abroad
Top image: Lin Wei (left) and Tang Junhao (right) Positioning their practice as a versatile design agency, Lin Wei and Tang Junhao, co-founders of Beijing-based United Design Practice (UDP), possess a...
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Richard Killip On Vitra’s Competitive Edge
What has it been like working for Vitra these past 20 years? What do you see as some of your greatest achievements with the company? The best part about working with Vitra has been experiencing the way...
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Atelier Deshaus In Profile
Top image: Long Museum “We hope that all our projects will be viewed as works of art, whatever the purpose,” says architect Liu Yichun, as he strolls through the imposing and monumental cast concrete...
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Designing for a flea-market in 20 years: Bouroullec Brothers for Kettal
Top Image: Erwan (left) and Ronan (right) Bouroullec Kettal Stand, RHO Fiera, Milan, 14.4.2015 Lorenzo Logi [LL]: How did the collaboration with Kettal begin? Ronan Bouroullec [RB]: Kettal wanted to...
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Design to Empower
Social innovation calls for creativity of not only the professionals but also society as a whole. At the Social Innovation Festival (10DAYFEST) exhibition at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (25...
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Architect In Profile: Alfred Wong
In the years leading to Singapore’s independence, Alfred Wong and other young architects founded what became the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) to empower local practitioners and educate...
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Mike Lim On Creating Holistic Interior Spaces
Having worked on his fair share of mega projects like the Dubai Mall, Abu Dhabi Tower and Paragon Shopping Centre, Mike Lim, Director of DP Design, is no stranger to working with interiors at a scale...
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Stuck – A Culture of Collaboration
More minds are better than one. For multidisciplinary design studio Stuck, this mindset has allowed for many successful collaborative opportunities that straddle the fields of branding, and product and...
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In Conversation With Gian Luca Gessi
Gian Luca Gessi, CEO of the world-famous bathroom brand Gessi says that the “dream element” is of utmost importance to the company. Rather than simply following the “scientifically precise” insights of...
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Alejandro Aravena Wins 2016 Pritzker Prize
Top image: Photo by Cristobal Palma Mathematics School, 1999, Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Photo by Tadeuz Jalocha Alejandro Aravena of Chile has just been announced as this year’s...
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Man of the Hour: Siew Man Kok
Top image: (left) Siew Man Kok; (right) master plan for Bidadari Estate, artist rendering Visitor Centre at Horticulture Park (HortPark) Your firm’s philosophy is ‘Simple questions that lead to the...
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New Appointment: Angelene Chan Is Named CEO of DP Architects
Angelene Chan has just been appointed CEO of DP Architects. The Singaporean firm has 1,200 employees and 15 offices worldwide, and is the 12th largest architectural firm in the world according to the...
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Wimberly Interiors Announces New Studio Director
Wimberly Interiors, an affiliated interior design studio of WATG, specialises in hospitality and experiential design with offices worldwide. Joining the local outpost as studio director, Christine...
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In Conversation with Simon Rawlings
Ever since the late David Collins set it up in 1985, David Collins Studio has been creating spaces that have become icons. It is the studio’s imaginative and thoughtful approach, combined with its...
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Arsh Chaudhry Joins Space Matrix as New Global CEO
Asia’s second largest interior design firm, Space Matrix, has hired Arsh Chaudhry as its new Global CEO. The former executive managing director of Cushman and Wakefield will lead the company in its...
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