Urban Design Singapore

Features Desk Bee Lan Wei Kiang Hung Yen Ecopark is a 500 hectare township in Van Giang, Hung Yen Province, located 10 km southeast of the city centre of Hanoi, within half an hour drive. The township is sited on a low-lying area near the confluence of Bac Hung Hai Canal and the Red River. We embarked on this project in 2006, with a vision to create the first sustainable integrated waterfront township in Hanoi with several waterfront community, a commercial hub and institution hub featuring a lake forming a ring within the township. The key challenge of the project is to create a waterfront community, where there would be minimum impact on the existing water ecosystem within the site, and resilient to climate change. The team has studied and establish the development concept, drawing influences from Ciputra Hanoi International City and Phu My Hung Township, along with waterfront residential community in Florida and Gold Coast, and the newly minted Sentosa Cove in Singapore. We want...

  Comment from Yihan Zhu: On 28th Sep, Wang Xing, our 2000-2001 alumni, and a cultural tourism development expert, has shared his experience in cultural tourism with us. He started from the history of urban planning in China, analysed the urban-rural dichotomy in China, and then moved on to the work on rural revitalisation today, and the link between rural revitalisation and urban design, providing us with an in-depth analysis. My perception is that, in order for planning to be "practical", the two core issues of "who uses it" and "how to use it well" must be clarified. The users of the planning process are the participants in its implementation. The implementation of village planning is a systematic project involving all aspects of the protection and use of rural land space, but the main participants can still be categorised as administrators (government departments, mainly related to natural resources, agriculture and rural areas, and cultural conservati...

Content Provided UVEST The complexity of urban milieu "Cities are the quintessential example of complex systems. Their patterning in spatial terms across many scales is highly ordered but the evolution of such patterns does not depend on some centralised authority, some hidden hand, except insofar as such a hidden hand emerges from the uncoordinated actions of individuals." --- British Urban Planner Michael Batty Urban evaluations are performed by urban planners or professionals. This conventionally appears as SWOT analysis (or SWOT matrix), which is a strategic planning technique used to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to project planning. In the urban study, SWOT is usually used as a contextual analysis tool in planning, particularly in the fields of land-resource planning, urban strategy planning, tourism planning, etc. The conventional SWOT analysis only analyzes the research object in general terms, and the result is descriptive, which ...

Project submitted by  l'AUC and  CENDES+TENarchitects & Planner CENDES+TENarchitects & Planners Pte Ltd (UEN: 201222234K) was incorporated in Singapore, which is a professional Architectural and Master Planning firm approved by The Board of Architects of Singapore (LICENCE NO. BOA-LC120/2022-2023).  It is one of the handful of Private Limited Companies that can provide both planning and architecture consultancy in Singapore.  Other than Singapore, CENDES+TENarchitects & Planners Pte Ltd has associated operation that includes CENDES+TENarchitects & Planners Consultants (Shanghai) Ltd serving the Greater China Region. CENDES+TENarchitects & Planners has nearly 15 years of consulting experience in planning and architecture projects, our consultancy service extends from large-scale Master Planning to Urban Design, Architecture, Landscape Design, Interior Design and Specialty Planning and Design such as Eco-Tourist Resorts and Industrial Parks.  S...

  Project submitted by  l'AUC and  CENDES+TENarchitects & Planners l'AUC is a professional architecture and urbanism company based in Paris. Since its creation in 1996. l'AUC develops a counter-current posture with regards to architectural and urban issues in the context of French, European and international urban design. By questioning the commonly accepted hierachy between project scales and placing them all at an equivalent level of importance, l'AUC's analysis and design methods establish permanent back and forth movements and transversality from the territorial and metropolitan scale up to the detail. CENDES+TENarchitects & Planners Pte Ltd (UEN: 201222234K) was incorporated in Singapore, which is a professional Architectural and Master Planning firm approved by The Board of Architects of Singapore (LICENCE NO. BOA-LC120/2022-2023).  It is one of the handful of Private Limited Companies that can provide both planning and architecture consultancy in Sing...

  We are delighted to announce that the 3rd MAUD 25th Anniversary keynote lecture will be held at 6:30pm (GMT+8), Oct 27 (Thursday).  The speaker will be Prof. Henco Bekkering, Emeritus Professor of Urban Design & Former Chair of Urbanism, TU Delft. Please find more info of the event and register (by Oct 23) here:  https://lnkd.in/gnT9iMUD

Urban Walk - Join Us for the Bencoolen Street Urban Walk on 15th October Join us for the first Urban Walk of Bencoolen street this Saturday! Walk Leader: Koh Wei Kiang Walk Route: Please see the above Route Map (done by Wei Kiang) Date & Time:  SATURDAY (15th Oct) 9:30am Meet Point:  Food Dynasty Lazada One Things to Bring:  Camera, Sketch Pad, Umbrella...    You can find out more about the Bencoolen street views  by watching the below video

Please feel free to  contact me  if you have any feedback on the article and required more information about the project and its firm. Meanwhile, we will be pleased to invite you to submit any good design project or professional article that you want to publish. Project submitted by Mind Manifestation Studio After graduating from NUS in the year 2011 and after gaining significant experience under the guidance of reputed firm in Singapore, Ar. Anand Deshmukh established Mind Manifestation in the year 2014 in collaboration with Ar. Chetan Lahoti, in Pune, India. Currently the firm is working on a range of projects throughout India. For the Design team – the brief, local context and a fair response to the existing site conditions lay the foundation for design initiation, enriched further with the appropriate play of natural light, use of local historic references / materials and latest trend in technology. The driving factor for the firm is achieving perfection and creating space...

spatial.io We had the great opportunity to interview Mark Ong, the Metaverse Architect from www.rsp.sg , the first architectural firm from Singapore to design buildings in Metaverse. We were so excited to hear and learn from him. We found out from him all the benefits the Metaverse brings to Architecture and Urban Design Practise. We could not wait to put them into practice and partake in the Metaverse revolution after hearing him. How to convince your top management to join the Metaverse? Mark has the answers. All the questions we can think of, he has answered them. It was an amazing session. We should not lag behind as time and tide wait for no one. Let's hear him More money making ways according to Amir Hossein Noori :  How can architects make money in Metaverse? Some Interesting News on the Web: NXT   The Metaverse as Opportunity for Architects: An Interview with Patrik Schumacher Is the metaverse the next frontier for healthcare? - LS:N Global https://metaverse-arch...

  A new role, a redefinition, a reinvention, Kheng Soon , the architectural philosopher, will share with you his thoughts on Modern Asian Design Thinking.  Tay Kheng Soon, born in 1940, is a practicing architect and former adjunct professor at  National University of Singapore Architecture School. He was president of the  Singapore Institute of Architects from 1990-1993 and founding member and  chairman of SPUR (Singapore Planning and Urban Research) from 1970 to 1971. He graduated from the School of Architecture (present Singapore Polytechnic) in 1964 and is  currently undertaking fundamental design research about Rubanisation.  He is a public intellectual who held many visionary views on the built environment and urban planning. Topic: ON MODERN ASIAN DESIGN THINKING Time: Oct 5, 2022 08:30 PM Singapore Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89812207314?pwd=ek8yMUY2K2Q4d2daZnpEY0pGdW9xQT09 Meeting ID: 898 1220 7314 Passcode: 960630 This e-book i...

Thanks, Emmanuel Daniel (ED) for taking his time amidst his tight schedule to meet online and share with us his views and thoughts. The revolution of finance forms the basis and foundation of digital services that are now being invented and created. All users who want to participate in the Metaverse have to own some cryptocurrencies and digital wallets for transactions, otherwise one can only be an audience and bystander.  When asked about the volatility of digital currencies and their link to network societies, he reiterated that their value fluctuation is irrelevant to their use and purpose. They remain to serve those purposes regardless of their value in dollars. When asked by Swee Kim how the senior generation could partake and keep abreast of this personalization of the finance process and keep up-to-date. ED answer was cryptic, think of an intermediary, if there is one, he can be done away with. Keep removing them we will be fine.  Do we need some guidelines, policies,...