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Wallflower Architecture + Design wraps plant-filled timber lattice around Singapore home

March 7, 2024 Katie Last 0

A lattice facade and tropical plants wrap around the walls of this home, which local studio Wallflower Architecture + Design has created alongside Singapore Botanic Gardens. Named Touching Eden House, the home was designed to celebrate the surrounding greenery and is enveloped in a dark timber lattice. “The inspiration behind this design was the concept

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OMA juxtaposes orange-steel cylinder with modernist building for Singapore restaurant

March 4, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Dutch studio OMA has transformed a modernist building in Singapore into the Air Circular Campus and Cooking Club, adding a cylindrical orange steel frame encompassing a bar and kitchen. Aiming to create a dining experience that encourages visitors to think about food and its connection to the environment, OMA altered the 1970s building and added outdoor

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A Lot Of Plants Have Been Integrated Into The Design Of This Home In Singapore

January 21, 2024 Erin 0

Wallflower Architecture + Design has sent us photos of a home they recently completed in Singapore, that features an exterior covered in plants. The house, cloaked in vines and vegetation, and nestled among lush green overgrowth, stands at the edge of the Singapore Botanic Gardens and was designed to have natural elements seamlessly integrated into […]

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A Rain Tree Became The Centerpiece Of This Home’s Design

December 12, 2023 Erin 0

Guz Architects has shared photos of a modern home they designed in Singapore, that was conceived as a multigenerational family house arranged around a large garden and an old rain tree which was protected and preserved. The architects included passive cooling measures, which were integrated into the design of the house with large overhanging roofs […]

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WOHA cuts garden terraces supported by green columns into Pan Pacific Orchard hotel

November 1, 2023 Amy Peacock 0

Architecture studio WOHA has created a “garden hotel” in Singapore with planted and pool terraces cut into the building’s rectangular form. WOHA described Pan Pacific Orchard as a “distinctive garden hotel and green icon” aiming to celebrate nature and offer verdant views on all floor levels. Each terrace has a different theme – beach, garden and

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Serendipitous Home Surrounded by Nature in Singapore

October 19, 2023 HD Staff 0

The owners attained this property by serendipitous circumstances–thankfully missing out on a smaller plot earlier in their search. Measuring 2015 square meters in the heart of a prime residential district in Singapore, the large city home was designed to support a lifestyle that resembles a weekend retreat in a tropical resort clubhouse. Created by Wallflower […]

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Eric Parry Architects staggers “cascade of garden terraces” down Singapore office block

August 23, 2023 Katie Last 0

Sweeping curves and planted terraces feature in this staggered office building which London-based studio Eric Parry Architects has created alongside a Singapore park. Spread across seven floors punctuated by planted gardens and curving balconies, the office block was designed by Eric Parry Architects as the headquarters for Singaporean company Wilmar. It contains laboratories as well

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Toyo Ito completes “largest wooden building in Asia”

July 5, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

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. Toyo Ito & Associates designed Gaia

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A Home Designed To Make You Forget About Time

February 20, 2023 HD Staff 0

Affectionately named the Forgetting Time House, this 14,000 sq ft home was designed to take you back to that blissful mindset of early childhood when time had no meaning. Created by Architecture + Design, this concept is all about balance. The design alternates between areas of openness and enclosure, lightness and solidity. All in the […]

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SOM unveils design for Singapore’s first supertall skyscraper

October 28, 2022 Ben Dreith 0

American architecture studio SOM has released designs for 8 Shenton Way, a supertall skyscraper in Singapore that will be the city’s tallest and has a design that was informed by bamboo forests. Designs for the 63-storey skyscraper show a stepped structure rising from a plant-filled base, with a series of voids along the facade that

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